HAF 915R mini-ITX System
Mini-ITX Motherboard
The Cooler Master HAF 915R case is designed to mount a mini-ITX motherboard; take it or leave it.
The motherboard mounts on top of four brass stand-offs and is secured with machine screws; clean, simple, done.
ATX Power Supply
One of the big differences between the HAF 915R and HAF 915F mini-ITX enclosures is where the PSU mounts. In the HAF 915R, the power supply mounts on the rear panel.
The HAF 915 case is designed to mount a full-sized ATX power supply of your choice. The PSU sits on a small shelf and is held in place with four machine screws.
Note: Because the PSU mounts over top of the motherboard, CPU coolers are limited to 80mm (3.1”) tall. This is fine for some the low profile CPU coolers but prohibits installing a taller tower-style coolers. If this is a concern, then consider the HAF 915F, which moves the PSU to the front of the chassis and leaves plenty of room for a big tower-style CPU cooler or water-cooling system.
VGA Card
The Cooler Master HAF 915R case can accommodate a dual slot VGA card with ease.
Drive Cages
The HAF 915R enclosure features one external 5.25” bay and one internal 3.5’ drive cage, which can hold three 3.5”/2.5” HDDs and or SSDs.
Our 5.25” BluRay ODD slipped easily into the front bay after removing the front bezel and popping out the cover plate. The 3.5"/2.5" HDD/SSDs install into drive trays just like the ones in the HAF 935 mid-section 3.5" drive cage (see previous section).
3.5” HDD and 2.5” SSD Installed in HAF 915R
Note: If you plan to install a self contained mini-ITX system into the upper HAF 915R section, you will need to purchase an additional external I/O panel to control it as the 915R that comes bundled with the HAF 935 combo package has a blank-dummy I/O panel.
Peltier!? Gosh thats
Peltier!? Gosh thats insane….
Well it would be awesome if
Well it would be awesome if you had a PWM controled Peltier, which keeps the water temperature around 1°C so nothing freezes in or outside. Well I still dought its worth it, but it would be “cool”
You could use a heat
You could use a heat exchanger water plate between the cold peltier side and the water loop (with antifreeze) and solve the condensation problem. Also, this would allow sub zero water to be used from the peltier without introducing into your actual cpu cooling loop. I think the frozen website has one for sale.
Nice detailed info. I didn’t
Nice detailed info. I didn’t realise that the cutout behind the motherboard was to help with CPU/APU cooler setups. I guess I’m old fashion.
I am a little confused about “The HAF 935 enclosure provides plenty of room around the motherboard area for installing one or more VGA cards.” Do you mean room for large GPU cards? I don’t remember seeing a VGA port on those GPU cards (GTX TITAN).
Sorry – wasn’t trying to
Sorry – wasn't trying to confuse anyone. Old habit of using VGA as a generic term for Video Graphics Adapters (technically VGA stands for Video Graphics Array) – my bad. And you are correct, those Titan graphics adapters don't sport any VGA ports!
Who cares? Why do I need
Who cares? Why do I need this? I’m not running a 2-p or 4-p server at home. What audience is this big case targeted at?
In this regressing economy, it’s dangerous to recommend people to waste money on crap they don’t need. Whether it’s buying expensive graphics cards or cases, or CPUs, it’s all a waste of money. We in the Western world are losing our industrial base, and our jobs, both technical and non-technical, are flying away to those developing countries. This is not the time to think about ways to waste money…
I do see this case in my near
I do see this case in my near future 😉
Good review of a definitely
Good review of a definitely intriguing product. If you’re going to go monster with a full-size, I like this outside-the-box case design. The possibilities ….
Definitely not for people without imagination.
This case opened my mind to
This case opened my mind to the possibility of setting up a water cooled gaming rig and then a smaller one for a virtual box server with a asrock avaton MB, that hosts a test lab environment and then even another for a plex media server with all my movies and music, and even another for a backup server. This would “de-clutter” various servers/towers laying around into one corner of your man/woman cave. It might even have the power to save a marriage too!
It’d be cool if someone could
It’d be cool if someone could come up with a peltier cooling system that could measure dew point. That way you could run the system as cool as the current dew point would allow. I remember coming across a website a while ago where they were programming a microcontroller to do just that but it never came together.
Does anyone know if there’s
Does anyone know if there’s any restrictions on stacking two 925’s on top of each other? I want one for a media centre with 9 hdd’s and another as a gaming rig with with 2x 970 in sli.