Fractal Design Define S review

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The move to silent

Fractal Design is adding a new line of chassis to their product line-up, targeted at the audiophile and noise conscience end-users. With the S for silent the Define S series has been introduced. As such today we review the first product in that line-up, the Design Define S. A silent, stylish mid-tower chassis. This all pro-dominantly black and white chassis comes with plenty of cooling options, great design and it will house up-to ATX motherboards. This product is made with airflow and liquid cooling in mind to serve the more performance oriented PCs. You'll be excited about storage, style, USB 3.0 and low noise levels.

The new chassis has a couple of new features, and though being aimed at a relatively smaller form factor and silence, is can still house pretty much any radiator that is common for a high-end PC these days. I mean if you can mount radiators up to 420mm in the top and 360mm in the front, then that should be sufficient eh ? As such liquid cooling fanatics should not be disappointed. There is enough room left for pumps and reservoirs. The chassis comes with two performance but silent Fractal Design Dynamic GP14 140mm fans that are already factory installed, and that means good ventilation versus fairly little noise.

This is Fractal Design meaning, many other features that we'll show you in this review, like cable routing space, removable fan filters, CPU cooler sizes limits of up to 180mm, a stylish black paint job and a top mounted I/O panel with two USB 3.0 ports, audio in/out, power button, HDD activity led, reset button and fan controller. This chassis comes with a rear mounted hard disk storage, three steel trays with vibration-dampening grommets allowing for installation of one 3.5" or 2.5" drive on each tray. So yeah, there is some extra room behind the motherboard tray as well. An interesting chassis alright. Have a peek first, and then let's start-up this review shall we?

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