Silverstone Fortress FT01 Case

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Silverstone high-end cases in aluminum. The versions are distinguished by their black or silver, and with or without side window. The versions are distinguished by their black or silver, and with or without side window. That means a housing-aluminum tower with 5 bays 5.25 "and 7 drive bays for 3.5". The outstanding feature of this camera is to have a 180 mm fan on top plus a 180 mm at the bottom of the tower and a 120 mm extraction later CPU.

It’s also proved itself a hit among those with watercooling set ups, with excellent provisioning for multiple radiator set ups, a high end feature that we’ve since seen creep into many other manufacturers’ designs.Silverstone chose to modify the cooling system relative to the ATX standard. The ATX standard says air needs to come into the case at the bottom front, which will allow airflow to cross over the mainboard and all the components, and then it will exit via the power supply and rear mounted fan(s). Minor tweaks in positioning of fans are one thing, but Silverstone mixes things up by having two large 180mm intake fans, one at the front and one at the top.

However, Silverstone’s cases aren’t exactly known for being affordable, which is where this new model, the FT01 comes in. Built using the same uni-body construction as the TJ07, but in a smaller size and with some of the higher end features cut to keep the price down

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Mid tower and Large

Very large glazed area in which you can see all components, which is not so bad.The door opening is quite simple, it draws on the tongue, the door opens directly from a hand. No cutting possible. At the rear, there are two pass-pipes for external Water cooling kit because it has no place to set a large radiator.

The location for the motherboard is very long, which improves the laying and connecting cable box. Note that the famous still go around cables in the tower, Silverstone has not yet reflected on its integration. It is not possible to access the back of the processor to change the system setting via a trap door, you must remove the motherboard to put a Coolermaster V8

There is a large space at the bottom of the Power supply, which will spread the majority of cables behind the right pane.7 bays including one with a hot swap Sata connection at the other end to connect a hard drive hot.The same system is very useful to insert a drive 5.25 "Free screwdriver.

The ventilation system for the FT01 is based on positive pressure (where more air is pulled into the case than is exhausted), with both the top and front mounted low RPM 180mm cooling fans acting as intakes and only the rear 120mm fan acting as an exhaust.

The hard drive bays can be removed easily with a screwdriver to make room for graphics cards large as the Radeon HD 4870 X2. The 180mm fan has a dust filter which can be removed easily.

Unlike Raven, The Fortress offers better ergonomics in the cable management through the rear panel. The doors are covered with a thick foam to fight against noise and vibration.

Finally on top, two USB ports, a headphone port and microphone plus a Firewire, the bare minimum.

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After Configuration of Silverstone Fortress FT01

Approximately 2 cm of space between the motherboard and the power for hard disks, the GTX 280 passes without problem. The management of Serial ATA cables as placed on the Gigabyte is very comfortable.The space between the V8 and the exhaust fan is fairly thin, a real ordeal to connect the power cable EPS 12 Volt.

Unlike Raven, the Fortress can switch the cables in the outside and they can be placed right in front of their slot on the motherboard will greatly improve airflow and aesthetics. Apart from the EPS 12 volt cable was missing a little size to be placed.

Filter dust from the top is not removable because cable box. Another who designed the famous tower without cables, which somewhat recalls the Raven

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Conclusion for Silverstone Fortress FT01

For a small box-middle round, the Fortress is a high-end housing with a beautiful exterior and interior finishing including through rounded aluminum in one piece as the mark of the TJ07.The place exists in this tower, one can almost get the impression of being in a tall tower. It is lightweight, has advantageous feature, which places it in the best cases currently available.

Through the doors covered with foam and large diameter fan (thus a slow speed with a flow of air), the Fortress FT01 is a final round very quietly.Barely 40 dBA measured at 50 cm and 55 ° C in full for a pretty I7 965 through OCCT for 6 min, it competes with its older Raven.

The Fortress FT01 is a box in his design to both players lan party by reducing its weight very well and also to anyone who prefers a housing tidy and very comfortable to use.