Silverstone GD06 HTPC chassis review

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Showcase Exterior

 

 

Silverstone GD06

Once we open the door things become more clear. From left to right we spot two HDD bays, these are swappable with a latch. We'll show you that later on in this article. Interesting to see are the two USB 3.0 ports, that's a nice touch making the chassis hip and new. In the middle MIC and Headphone connectors and all the way up placement for an optical drive like DVD or Blu-ray.

Other IO functionally is a little sober, no memory card connectors, no eSATA ports. Then again, would you really need them on a HTPC ?

Silverstone GD06

Let's zoom in a little. Here you can see the two drive bays, (hot) swappable if your motherboard and OS support it of course.

Silverstone GD06

When we look at the right side we see meshes for air intake and exhaust, the chassis is equipped with a total of three 120mm fans. You could opt to replace all 120mm fans with 80mm fans as there are screw holes for the smaller fan, though the reason to do well we don't know. Also look at the top, one mesh allowing your components to be cooled well.

Silverstone GD06

The right side has again a meshes covering an two fans, the top cover is secured at the read with three screws. With an included three 120mm fans we can safely say that it is plenty of cooling features for any PC case. Once activated the fans are surprisingly quiet by the way.

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