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Review: Fractal Design Define 7 XL chassis
A divine redesign, meet the all-new Fractal Design Define 7 XL, an all-black, cool and silent PC housing for a wide variety of motherboards. This product is made with airflow and liquid cooling in mind to serve the more performance-oriented PCs. It is a spacious beast with a lot of options.
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#5762436 Posted on: 02/21/2020 05:18 PM
What is it these days with every brother and his mother putting USB on top of the case?
I mean, hello!?! how am i going to plug in with the case underneat my desk?
...i think i know why, it's the goddamn plague called side windows and expecting everyone to put it on your desk.
What is it these days with every brother and his mother putting USB on top of the case?
I mean, hello!?! how am i going to plug in with the case underneat my desk?
...i think i know why, it's the goddamn plague called side windows and expecting everyone to put it on your desk.
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#5762628 Posted on: 02/22/2020 06:08 PM
What is it these days with every brother and his mother putting USB on top of the case?
I mean, hello!?! how am i going to plug in with the case underneat my desk?
...i think i know why, it's the goddamn plague called side windows and expecting everyone to put it on your desk.
There's no other place for it in these designs. Behind the door would be far worse for the vast majority of users. However, if it suits you better, I imagine you could easily enough replace the optical slot shield with a panel with usb slots, assuming you don't have a DVD/BD drive. I bet you'd find solutions on Ebay, might even be some with the audio connections available. Otherwise I suppose you could get a usb 3 hub and attach it to the table or something for easy access. Alternatively you could just look for cases that don't have a front door design in the first place, which would allow for more varied options.
What is it these days with every brother and his mother putting USB on top of the case?
I mean, hello!?! how am i going to plug in with the case underneat my desk?
...i think i know why, it's the goddamn plague called side windows and expecting everyone to put it on your desk.
There's no other place for it in these designs. Behind the door would be far worse for the vast majority of users. However, if it suits you better, I imagine you could easily enough replace the optical slot shield with a panel with usb slots, assuming you don't have a DVD/BD drive. I bet you'd find solutions on Ebay, might even be some with the audio connections available. Otherwise I suppose you could get a usb 3 hub and attach it to the table or something for easy access. Alternatively you could just look for cases that don't have a front door design in the first place, which would allow for more varied options.
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#5762703 Posted on: 02/23/2020 02:24 AM
Can`t choose between Thermaltake Suppressor F31 and Fractal Design Define R5 Black and now a new one appears...
Can`t choose between Thermaltake Suppressor F31 and Fractal Design Define R5 Black and now a new one appears...
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#5762721 Posted on: 02/23/2020 04:48 AM
I haven't experienced reliability issues from any case I've ever bought..... How does one experience a case failure? Do the rivets just start falling out?
I personally will continue to buy their products when I need them, just because of reliability
I haven't experienced reliability issues from any case I've ever bought..... How does one experience a case failure? Do the rivets just start falling out?
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All in all, both this and the XL are on my radar for a possible case upgrade in the near future. I'll give it some time, as I'm sure there might be issues popping up from users during the next ~6 months. But yeah, design wise they look great to me, understated, but definitely not as understated as Fractal used to be in the past. I'm a bit concerned about the stock config airflow, but there's so much room for tweaking and customization, that I'm sure it can be fixed.