Missionary Manner

First nosotros decided to try a build inside the Dark Base Pro 900 using the standard out-of-the-box configuration.

Given how large the case is we didn't discover a need to remove the motherboard tray and instead dropped the Gigabyte Z97X-SOC motherboard in without first preinstalling any other components. Securing the CPU and then the massive Silverstone Heligon Series HE02 heatsink with the motherboard already in the case was easily done.

At that place is even room to attain the motherboard'south eight-pin ability connector with the HE02 heatsink installed.

Speaking of power connectors, the massive Corsair AX1500i fit without having to remove any hard drive cages. This ability supply measures 225mm long, but if you remove the hard drive cages yous can go as long as 284mm -- proficient luck with that!

Installing the power supply is a bit more messing effectually than normal as it doesn't simply just slot into the rear of the case where it tin can be accessed externally. Instead it sits internally and requires a split panel for rear access. This means the rear panel must kickoff be removed to secure the power supply into the internal subclass. It's non hard but quite a few extra steps are involved.

Helping streamline the procedure is the fact that Be Tranquillity! has preconnected the case fans to the controller. It's all very neat.

Finally, we installed a pair of GeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition graphics cards and found that even with the drive cages installed there was all the same 55mm of clearance. At this point nosotros decided to hit pause on this build, rewind past removing everything and pull the Dark Base Pro 900 autonomously for an inverted setup.

Inverted Way

With a pretty practiced thought of what information technology is similar to build inside the Night Base of operations Pro 900 in its standard configuration, we decided to change things up. The near unique feature of this case is its ability to exist deconstructed and reconstructed every bit an inverted case, so we though that needed to exist checked out.

In the to a higher place photograph you lot tin can see but how heavily the case can be stripped down and getting to this point only takes 20 minutes or and so.

Minus the large panels and the motherboard tray this is what yous cease up with once the Night Base Pro 900 has been fully pulled apart.

This time nosotros went with a different massive libation, the Thermalright Le Grand Manlike, which was able to be orientated in such a way that is almost pressed up against the exhaust fan, removing the need for a dedicated fan on the heatsink.

When inverted the CPU cooler sits just above where the ability supply will exist mounted. Unfortunately, the Gigabyte Z97X-SOC does have a flake of an awkward PCIe layout which forced u.s.a. to place the primary card correct upward against the Le Grand Manlike cooler. The single slot spacing besides meant that we couldn't use the three-slot HB SLI bridge.

This fourth dimension we mounted three 6TB WD Black hard drives in the peak three three.v" drive cages and removed the remaining cages, leaving a huge open section in the front of the case. This is the type of layout those going with custom water-cooling setups would use. Alternatively, you can populate this department of the instance with storage drives.

Overall the Dark Base Pro 900 was a lot of fun to work with and I can only imagine the different configurations enthusiasts are going to come up with.