Installation Impressions

Putt complete the hardware inside the Pig RV05 was a bass point for us when we reviewed it last year. Unhappily, we didn't have much fun impermanent with the case due to the difficulty in installation certain hardware and single incompatibilities that we ran into.

Truth be told, the situation with the RVX01 is very much the same. This case was meliorate in just about respects while worsened in others. The only good news here is that to the highest degree populate purchasing a 'budget' gaming case such atomic number 3 the RVX01 will probably install every last their computer hardware and forget about it for a yr or more.

Installation started by squeezing the motherboard in and while I would commonly install the memory and CPU heatsink antecedent to inserting the motherboard, I don't recommend doing this with the RVX01. In that respect only isn't enough way to exercise inside the RVX01 with a large air ice chest already installed. With the Prolimatech Megahalems in situ, we couldn't memory access much of the surrounding components correctly.

Silverstone specifies that the RVX01 will accept CPU coolers as tall as 162mm, which is odd since our 159mm tall Megahalems technically doesn't suitable. Although we were able to obtain the door back on without any trouble it did gently touch the top of the heatsink.

Afterwards speaking to Silverstone they assured ME that their 160mm tall HE02 fits for them without any unhinge thus I measured our Megahalems solitary to line up that information technology was exactly 159mm tall. The motherboard stand-offs provided with the RVX01 were used thus I'm not sure wherefore we had much trouble getting a 159mm tall heatsink to fit.

Next we installed the power ply and having nonheritable from our experiences with the RV05 we knew non to go cancelled Silverstone's recommended maximum PSU length of 225mm. This is curious as there is exactly 225mm of elbow room between the PSU mounting bracket and the 3.5" take cage which is non-removable. Therefore a 225mm long PSU won't actually check, sort o this is the total room available.

Since the average modular PSU needs leastways 50mm of space to fit totally the cables we advocate installation none power supply yearner than 175mm.

Any modular power issue finished 175mm long volition require removal to instal/remove power cables. The BitFenix Fury 750w measures just 160mm and attaching cables to the PSU inner the RVX01 wasn't that impressionable. Information technology's hard to envisage installing a 225mm long power provide in the RVX01 -- that would be anything merely fun.

With the motherboard, memory, CPU cooler and power supply all fitted we threw in a pair of 3.5" stale drives and two 2.5" SSDs. The granitelike drives slotted into place easily enough victimisation custom climbing ironware, though American Samoa we quickly found that really was the easy part. Moving around to the back face of the case, connecting the SATA data and power cables wasn't that easy as the drives are hollow few inches into the cage making it very difficult to plug cables in.

Following I installed the two 2.5" drives which use rubber grommets to slide into place. This was a quick and easy march so in that location is that.

Instalmen the graphics cards was too reasonably easy, though you do opening feature to remove the expansion expansion slot cover on the top face of the grammatical case. Over again, routing the PCIe 6-trap/8-pin power cables to the visual communication cards can be a gainsay.

The Silverstone Raven X RVX01 looks pretty chilly on the away but given how things went on the inside we hope it performs as well as the RV05 did.