Installation Impressions

Putting all the hardware inside the Raven RV05 was a low bespeak for the states when we reviewed it last year. Sadly, we didn't have much fun working with the example due to the difficulty in installing certain hardware and various incompatibilities that we ran into.

Truth be told, the situation with the RVX01 is very much the same. This example was better in some respects while worse in others. The only good news hither is that most people buying a 'budget' gaming case such as the RVX01 will probably install all their hardware and forget about it for a year or more than.

Installation started by squeezing the motherboard in and while I would normally install the retentiveness and CPU heatsink prior to inserting the motherboard, I don't recommend doing this with the RVX01. There simply isn't enough room to piece of work inside the RVX01 with a large air libation already installed. With the Prolimatech Megahalems in identify, we couldn't admission much of the surrounding components correctly.

Silverstone specifies that the RVX01 will accept CPU coolers every bit tall as 162mm, which is odd since our 159mm tall Megahalems technically doesn't fit. Although we were able to get the door back on without whatever trouble it did gently bear upon the top of the heatsink.

Later on speaking to Silverstone they bodacious me that their 160mm tall HE02 fits for them without any trouble then I measured our Megahalems only to find that it was exactly 159mm tall. The motherboard stand-offs provided with the RVX01 were used so I'm not sure why we had so much trouble getting a 159mm alpine heatsink to fit.

Next we installed the power supply and having learned from our experiences with the RV05 nosotros knew not to become off Silverstone'south recommended maximum PSU length of 225mm. This is odd as in that location is exactly 225mm of room betwixt the PSU mounting bracket and the 3.v" drive cage which is non-removable. Therefore a 225mm long PSU won't really fit, rather this is the total room available.

Since the boilerplate modular PSU needs at least 50mm of space to fit all the cables we recommend installing no power supply longer than 175mm.

Whatever modular ability supply over 175mm long will crave removal to install/remove power cables. The BitFenix Fury 750w measures only 160mm and attaching cables to the PSU within the RVX01 wasn't that easy. It's hard to imagine installing a 225mm long power supply in the RVX01 -- that would exist anything but fun.

With the motherboard, memory, CPU cooler and power supply all fitted nosotros threw in a pair of 3.5" hard drives and two two.v" SSDs. The hard drives slotted into place hands plenty using custom mounting hardware, though equally we quickly plant that really was the easy role. Moving around to the back side of the case, connecting the SATA information and ability cables wasn't that piece of cake equally the drives are recessed a few inches into the cage making it very difficult to plug cables in.

Side by side I installed the two 2.v" drives which utilize safe grommets to slide into identify. This was a quick and piece of cake process so there is that.

Installing the graphics cards was also reasonably like shooting fish in a barrel, though you do first have to remove the expansion slot embrace on the top side of the instance. Over again, routing the PCIe half-dozen-pin/eight-pin power cables to the graphic cards can be a claiming.

The Silverstone Raven X RVX01 looks pretty cool on the exterior but given how things went on the within we hope it performs equally well as the RV05 did.