Installation Impressions

The Cooler Chief HAF 912 will exist installed with the components beneath:

  • AMD Phenom Ii 555 X2 BE
  • MSI 870A Fuzion motherboard
  • Dynatron Genius G950 CPU cooler
  • 2x2Gb Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR3-1600
  • XFX 9600GSO 768M
  • 500Gb Seagate 7200.10
  • Sony Optiarc 24x DVD+/-RW
  • Ultra X3 800W PSU

The merely result I ran into was with the ability supply installation. The Ultra X3 800 is seven.5" (190mm) in length, certainly non the longest power supply nosotros've tested merely admittedly longer than most standard ATX class units.

With the modular connections on the back of the unit of measurement there was interference with the 2.v" drive cage. Once the muzzle was removed the power supply fit with no further trouble. The X3 800 is an older style unit. All of the 750-watt grade PSUs we've tested recently take been virtually an inch shorter in length, then it'due south unlikely you'll have the aforementioned issue if yous use a newer ability supply.

Installing the rest of the components into the HAF 912 was a breeze. Because I just had one optical bulldoze and 1 hard drive to install, I used the superlative spot in both cages and the tool-less mounting worked very smoothly. The Dynatron Genius tower cooler is a bit oversized, and every bit information technology uses its own mounting system instead of the manufacturing plant style retention, room to attach it was a bit cramped.

There is enough of space for the video card however, the 9600GSO is an 8.5" card and there is eleven" between the rear slots and the front end trophy. If you lot need more than room than that yous tin always take out the top 3.5" drive muzzle, giving actress clearance for those HD5970 CrossFire installations, while notwithstanding leaving 2 3.5" bays available at the bottom.