be quiet! Dark Base 700 Review

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Above, a photo of the top side (inwards view). You can see some meshes and air outtakes here. It's also a convenient spot to mount extra fans or liquid cooling. Liquid cooling wise you have plenty of options:

  • Front: 120, 140, 240, 280, 360 
  • Top: 120, 240, 360 
  • Rear: 120, 140

 

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You'll get seven plus two (for vertical mounting of the graphics card) PCI slots to play around with so, in theory, you can easily house up-to, two graphics cards in here. The first upper two (dual-slot) graphics cards can even be up to 430 mm in length as long as you do not position an HDD cage next to it. Motherboard wise you can install quite a bit, as long as the form factor is E-ATX, ATX, Micro-ATX or mini-ITX. You secure the graphics cards or other cards with a thumbscrew.

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At the top side, we can see one 140 mm Silent Wings 3 fan, it is included and installed for you already. In the topside upper mesh, you'll notice mounting holes for other fans and radiator and/or fan solutions as described in the previous chapter. At the front side again a 140 mm Pure Wings 3 fan is installed and wired towards the internal fan controller.

  

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Mounting an HDD is simple, you (can) mount a rubber pad to each side of the HDD and secure these with the included (small) screws. There are multiple hard-disk bays split across the chassis. I'd recommend installing them out of sight in the backside lower cage though (which we'll show you in a tidbit). 


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Rubber inserts prevent resonating noises from the HDD. You slide the unit into the drive bay and secure them with the supplied screws. As shown in the photos you may house 7 HDDs, but obviously, you could seat SSDs (2.5") just as well. Just line up the holes and screw them in securely.
 

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Out of the seven positions, you will only get three cages for three HDDs though. So adding more means purchasing optional cages. 

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