be quiet! Dark Base 700 Review

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You can mount very lengthy power supplies in the chassis, so that won't be an issue. The PSU will sit on rubberized padding, to ensure that no vibrations/noise passes on to the Dark Base 700 frame. The shield nicely covers it if for the extra clean looks.
  

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So, here we have that tempered glass side panel, I wanted to show you that with some additional photos. As you can see, the color coating is proper black, not brownish like the 900 Pro exhibited. In a dimmed room it actually works really well. 
 

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The feet are rubberized giving more grip to the surface and again preventing resonating noises escaping from the PC. The tempered glass is mounted onto rubberized risers and then secured with four screws. There's enough clearance on the glass so there aren't any tension issues or anything. Also, there is a removable dust filter that is easy to clean out.

 

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In the above photo, we have removed the back side panel, rubber grommet inserts line the holes for cable management, the CPU motherboard cutout plate and an extra SSD mounts reveal themselves as well as the FAN and LED lighting HUB. Openings that are not used for drives can be used for cable management routing.
  

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SSD wise you take out a back-plate with a thumbscrew like so. Then screw the SSD to the back-plate, and reinsert it and re-secure the unit with the thumbscrew. We'll talk about that PCB slash controller more in-depth on the next page.


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There also an extra plate you can remove, mount two SSD on (screws) and then hang back. Easy and simple, the way I like stuff like this.
 

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One last note, look to the left and you can see the individual HDD cages, each secured with three thumb screws, Easy to remove and install individually. Here at the backside, you can mount two of them, nicely tucked and hidden away.

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