SilverStone Raven RV05 Review


I frankly disagree with you demonking. This case seems very much in line with the Raven series.

Also...
a. Cramped and small would be the point I would think.
b. Not many cooling options? What exactly do you even define as many cooling options? For aircooling the stock is pretty much the king of configurations, and for watercooling you have good options.
c. The case does come with a PSU filter among the accessories, according to Hardware Canucks. It's a magnetic filter fit for the recess of the powersupply's fanslot.

I'll give you that the case has limitations. Small cases have to. Bit of the point. However, the average user has a single harddrive, maybe two, and nowadays possibly an SSD. And for the average parts, this case has room for it all.

Then you start getting into the odd ones. If you want a lot of drives this isn't the case for you, but you do have two 3.5" and two 2.5" spots. That's more than what I think the average user will ever consider using, especially as we move towards M.2 slots or the like.

If you want to watercool the case you can stick a big, juicy 360 rad in the bottom, and a single 120 in the top of the case. While the 180mm fans aren't ideal static pressure fans, I doubt they're so bad that the increased cooling surface doesn't more than make up for it. That'll be enough for less power-hungry components.

My problem with the case is predominantly behind the space behind the motherboard. However, you bring up the RV02 in your post, which far as I'm aware had a similarly restrictive space.

If I shat money and time, I'd put together something beautiful for you in this case for the occasion.
 
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Is fine, I just happened to be at the cutoff for the next page, and I didn't think of my post being top one on a page would mean context might've been lost. :p

So just edited in what post it refers to for clarity.

Ah I didnt realise that you were refering to the user demonking. I thought it was a typo or something :D My bad
 
What Silverstone don't mention, and perhaps they should is that it's entirely feasible to fit the fans under the floor of the case.

I have a H105 and Antec Kuhler 620 and I was thinking of doing what is mentioned in the quote above with the 180mm pentrators under the case pushing and the stock fan pulling air. In the top, space permitting, i'll be running a push-pull with the Kuhler (2x corsair fans) for the GPU with a NZXT Kraken G10.

Does anyone know:
1) Will the Antec Kuhler's tubes fit and/or reach to the correct side of the gpu?
2) will I have to remove the filter from under the case?
 
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