Fractal Design Define 7 Compact review

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At the 'backside' of the chassis, we notice a big-ass gaping hole in the motherboard tray, a CPU back-plate cutout that allows you to remove and install a new CPU cooler much more comfortable. 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. Very popular with many chassis manufacturers these days alright. Several features are going on here, velcro tie-wraps for cable management, SSDs mounting clips, grommet hols, a dan hub, and more.


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There is space for cable routing here, not heaps of it but in-between the motherboard tray and backside panel running upwards to 2 cm, not great though. 


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Behind the motherboard tray, you can install two SSDs. You hang the SSD into the cut-outs and secure them with the supplied flat screws, two 2.5" SSD/HDD can be used. 


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To your left side you cans ee the HDD cage, you can insert two of them/ To the right we immediately bump into the power supply storage area. 


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So there's space for PSU's up to 200mm. However, you need to account in this the cabling. So that leaves ample room for extra cables you need to tuck away, it probably is the more significant downside of this PSU. Then again, it's a compact case so at a certain level some compromise needs to be made.

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