After the run away success of the R3 Fractal are back with a new midtower chassis. Can they really better the orignal design?
Continue Reading
Continue Reading
Fractal Designs Arc Midi Review
- Thread starter tinytomlogan
- Start date
I thought in photos the Arc looked great and smart in the usual Fractal Design way, but the review opened up even greater detail into the details Fractal managed to work in. Excellent chassis review as per usual.
Edit: I'd happily pick this free breathing Fractal case over the Coolermaster HAF mid towers.
Edit: I'd happily pick this free breathing Fractal case over the Coolermaster HAF mid towers.
killablade
New member
w00000t! Never expected it to be THIS good.. 
Very tempted to go for the ATX version after seeing the vid for the midi last night but then again I might just go for the Midi but I think i'll wait till after the review of the ATX version before deciding
This is the ATX chassis mate
SieB
New member
This is the ATX chassis mate
Ahh cool, I got confused by the beginning of the vid where you mentioned the two different versions. My mind is made up then, i'm going for it.... there goes my PSU budget
silenthill
New member
this is one of the best water cooling mid tower cases I have seen for some time, as for the fan in the side panel is to improve the air flow for the radiator which will be sucking air out of the inside of the case and if you test the case without the fan on the side panel (window only) you will find a big difference in the cooling performance of the loop, I have actually tried this with the coolermaster cases and the reason for this is there is not enough air coming in the case from the fans in front of the case which pass through the hard drive cage which reduces the air flow by a 1/2 and I think the best option will be to put a window and a side fan like the HAF X which will make this case god like.
dugdiamond
New member
3 cheers for fractal designs - hip hip hooray (x3)
stonking case
i want one
stonking case
i want one
badtaylorx
New member
gee thanx......im literally 2 days away from hitting the send button on my next build (silverstone raven e included)and now you hafta go and make me reconsider!!!!!hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This is making me considering this case. I was'nt going to upgrade for another four years , but as I have a microATX 1156 motherboard (Its getting hard to find a good 1156 motherboard) I am considering going to P67 with an i5 2500 , Corsair H100 and a good case. Ill have 8 gb ram (I had 8GB but one stick of ram was bad) with that. I like the way that 1155 supports the really high speed DDR3 ram and when overclocking the CPU the ram doesnt get adjusted. My motherboard doesnt like my CORSAIR XMS3 DDR3 1600MHZ.
So this case is one of my options along with the Corsair 650D. I dont know of any other case that would be good for cooling , but quiet and will fit very large GPU's. I only have four HDD's so I could remove the top HDD cage in this case and give the GPU more air.
So this case is one of my options along with the Corsair 650D. I dont know of any other case that would be good for cooling , but quiet and will fit very large GPU's. I only have four HDD's so I could remove the top HDD cage in this case and give the GPU more air.
Saltire35
New member
Noooooo !!!
