Fractal Design ERA ITX chassis review

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What you will learn when building on such a small form factor, nothing is standard. Every little inch of space needs to be utilized somehow. And that makes the build itself a bit complicated. Ats the top side you can remove the dust filter, below it you could mount a 240mm radiator for water-cooling / LCS. That obviously also is the only location for LCS. 


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At the rear, you can see the one fan installed, which is a  Silent Series R3 80 mm. We'll perform some tests on it later on, but overall I was quite impressed by that fan, and airflow certainly is a necessity with a build this small. 


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See that bracket resting on the case, there you mount your 2.5" SSD if you need to install them. 


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So, if you are an impatient person like I am, you'll learn very fast that it's not a matter of inserting the motherboards,, PSU and secure it. Not everything in the case needs to be unscrewed and re-mounted. Right now we're bumping onto the PSU mounting bracket, which can be moved/secure up and downwards btw in order to make your ATX power supply fit, however, we recommend an SFX power supply as you have cables to deal with as well. 

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SFX has another advantage,  see that bracket resting on the case, there you could mount on a second HDD or two more SSDs for a total of up to four storage devices. 


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