DeepCool NEW ARK 90 Tower Chassis review

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Product Showcase - Exterior

 

 

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Perhaps you noticed it already, the front side has a plastic tube, that in fact is an active part of the tubing system loop, close to the radiator behind it. Dazzling to watch. The body of the chassis is fabbed out of black ABS sheet metal. Albeit not the sturdiest chassis we've tested this does make the chassis relatively light in weight. The PC case has a modest size of 530×232×545.5mm and weighs in at almost 15 kg, including the cooling. Motherboard form factors supported are EATX, ATX, microATX, Mini-ITX. 

 

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At the backside, we see 8 (plus 2 extra slots for vertical VGA card installation) expansion slots. To the right of that, you can see the two extra slots for vertical mounting of a VGA card. Unfortunately, a riser is not included in the package and is sold as optional. Basically, you'd mount the graphics card vertically like it would be floating inside that chassis. All the way below we see the PSU section. PSU wise, you name it, it'll fit, as we'll show you later on. 

  

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At the top the front panel connectivity can be found, including USB 3.1 other than that, the usual suspects are here. It is really hard to spot, but to the left of the connectors, you can see three tiny buttons, these control your RGB lighting system including animations, colors, speed  .. but also off or just one static color.  There is no option to router the fans towards your motherboard and control it from there. 

 

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Ventilation is certainly not an issue, then again there's a proper 280 rad hidden under there so yea we'll need a bit of airflow alright. Pre-installed is the liquid cooling system, including a radiator, 3 RGB PWM fans (tied to a fan HUB) and a reservoir. Then at the rear, there's another fan installed. The front side does not have a fan installed, but the four active fans suck in so much air that the airflow is plentiful really.

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