be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Rev.2 review

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Here 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: 1x ‪240/360/420 mm
  • Rear: 1x 120/140 mm
  • Bottom: 1x 140/240 mm
  • Top: ‪120/140/180/240/280/360/420 mm (up to 65 mm high) 

 

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You'll get eight PCI slots to play around with so, you can house up-to, say, three graphics cards in here. The first upper two (dual-slot) graphics cards can even be up to ~325mm in length and longer if you do not use the drive cages. Motherboard wise you can install quite a bit, as long as the form factor is XL ATX, E-ATX, ATX, Micro-ATX or mini-ITX. You secure the graphics cards or other cards with a thumbscrew. At the top side, we can see one 140mm 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.
  

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Mounting an HDD is simple. There are multiple hard-disk bays offered in modular cages. You may remove or add them. be quiet! opted to leave them uninstalled for this revision2 (four are included though). Only the lower cage that can hold two HDDs is factory installed (I'll show you that on another photo). This all is part of the modular design for the 900 series. I like how they did it this round with the plastic inserts, you install what you need only, leaving the overall looks very clean.

  

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Here is that cage I mentioned, rubber inserts prevent resonating noises from the HDD. You slide the unit into the drive bay and secure them with supplied screws. These will also hold SSDs. in total you can mount 5x 3.5" devices and a whopping 10 2.5" devices throughout the chassis.
 

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You may house 5 HDDs, but obviously, you could seat SSDs (2.5") just as well. Just line up the holes and screw them in securely. In the bundle, you'll get the extra storage cages, as well as some brackets for, say mounting a reservoir for your liquid cooling. You once again also receive two LED strips, these are RGB and now upgraded to 12v, which seems to become the norm anno 2018.

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