Be Quiet! Silent Base 800 Window review

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The front panel, top panel, and side doors are made out of ABS plastic and that does give the chassis a bit of a cheaper feel to it. At the top there is a door hiding ODD units, the lower segment has a hatch so you can reach the fans. But let me show you that. On both sides of the panels you will notice cutouts, they have been embedded for a reason of course, both can be adjusted to allow air to enter the chassis from the sides and there's a filtered 120mm fan mount so you can move some extra air to, say, your graphics card.
 

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The chassis can house up-to three ODD units, it looks like four but the bay houses three. You simply remove the cover and slide them in. When you remove the side panels you will be able secure them tightly with a tool free design mechanism. The lower face-plate can be removed easily as well. On the top side you push and the face-plate comes out. Now you can clean the dust from the filters or access the two 140mm fans quite easily. The inside of the cover has sound dampening material applied to it. It's no surprise to find that the right panel is lined with a sound-absorbing material as well. The same lining is also included on the front panel, absorbing vibration and noise. You can see the material usage in the above photo.

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Let's take a good look at the innards. Everything has been designed in a rather dark fashion. We see grommet holes lovely with orange rubber inlays and a lot of covers. A decent design if you ask me. A good and popular trend these days is to make a big gaping hole in the motherboard tray. This actually is a CPU backplate cutout which allows you to remove and install a new CPU cooler much easier. Typically you'd need to take out the motherboard to install a new cooler, now you can access it from both sides without that unpleasant experience of removing a motherboard from the chassis.

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