be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Rev.2 review

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Right, as mentioned. Most of the design remained the same. We'll now start building a PC with some components. We've received a black/orange model, which I think looks better than the all-black version, but that, of course, is a personal preference.

  

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Right, let's build us a system. We'll install an MSI motherboard fitted with the be quiet Shadow Rock TF 2 CPU Cooler (review) paired to a be quiet! Power Supply (review). Hey, we kept things in line.
 

 

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We'll mount a LED array to the front right side, we point the LEDs inwards so we'll have little reflection on the glass. There's a lot of room for wiring at the front side, that's not an issue.  The orange colored rubberized grommet holes, well I guess you either like or dislike the color. Personally, I would have preferred all black. 

 

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So at the backside, the cable routing space roughly is two cm, I really would have liked a bit more, especially with the PCB in place. You just do not want to much cable clutter pressing on the FAN/RGB controller.


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At the bottom, we have mounted the PSU. As mentioned the cover and PSU installation can be a bit of a downer, it's not a user-friendly process at all. I do realize I am nitpicking tremendously here though. BTW in this photo, you can see why I mentioned the spacing for cable routing, if you do not pay attention, cables will press onto the controller PCB, keep that in mind. 


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And here we have her powered up, you can switch the RGB LED colors to your preference of course. Yeah, a quite familiar looking product eh?  it is still a nice looking product, but it somehow does seem to age a bit styling wise. Let's look at some more photos on the next page though. 

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