Coolermaster Full Mod Tower Computer Case MPN: HAF-935-KWN1

This is a very nice, very sturdy case that you will not regret buying. The design is efficient and clear, with no frilly plastic edges or exaggerations. Used it in my latest PC build, it has lots of fan placement options (1x140mm back, 2x120mm top, 2x120mm front, and extra ones on the side that I don't use. This is all in the lower module by the way, the large one, not the 915R, the small-ish top one). Mounting racks are clear, drive bays are easily removable, and dust filters are in front of every place where dust can enter except for the video card mounting trays (on the back). All in all exactly what I wanted and exactly what I paid for.

Pros:-Looks cool-Sturdy MetalCons:-Reconfigure in a way different than shown in the thumb nail will cause massive issues, this modular case, mind as well not be modular.-If you don't mount your radiator inside the expansion module, then there isn't enough space in the main case to mount it above the motherboard as you usually would, you also cannot shift it forward towards/into the CD bays unless you want to drill your own screw holes.-ATI card slots are crooked, and won't line up with your graphics card/other ATI cards. (May have bent from the other nonsense I had to do to fit things in the case.-Power supply doesn't fit, that's right, this enthusiast case cannot fit a large modular power supply.. no modular for your modular case... that isn't modular.-If you mount your power supply in the modular component, you will only have enough space inside for one hard drive mount. (Holds 3 HHDs) The power supply will also have to be mounted upside down if you do this.This case sells itself as a modular monster, yes? Well it might be modular, but if you put it together any way except the way it's shown above, your going to have a bad time... and I'm not just talking, an "Oh damn, I have to order a longer fan cable" I'm talking a, "Oh... guess I need to get the metal saw and start cutting things."My trouble first started when I re-configured the case to put the modular section at the bottom, with the plans of putting two Hard Drive racks, and the power supply down there. Only to find that the racks have to be 2~ inches apart from one another, and that the power supply would have to be upside down if mounted in this expansion area, and being a powerful modular power supply, would take up about half of the available space, not giving you room for the two hard drive mounts, since they had to be spaced out to reach their screw holes. In retrospect, I mind as well have drilled my own screw holes, and just made it work that way. . . then again, my power supply would be upside down then, so who knows.Unfortunately, my troubles didn't end there, after I decided to mount the PSU inside the main case, and just let it pull air from the small gap between the case modules, I found that the PSU didn't fit. In fact, it was too long. Part of the back/side wall of the case where you would usually hide your cables, has a metal bump out, that sticks out about a cm into the area a long power supply would fit into, preventing you from mounting the power supply correctly. If you were to force the PSU into this spot, it would be crooked, and not sit correctly on the rubber supports. As such, I had to cut the part of the case that was sticking outward too far away. Probably should have just returned the rubbish case, but at this point, I had already invested some time into it, and didn't want to have to wait another week or so for another case that would fit all of my components to get it.You would think, after faffing about with the "modular" case for most of a day, and cutting away part of the case to fix a fault in it's design, my troubles would be over... oh no... no, things could never bee so simple with this case. As I said above, I had planned to place the HHD holders into the modular section that I now had at the bottom of the case, and in doing so I had removed them from their original spot, revealing a perfect spot fro two 120 mm fans, which I had already bought as I planned to do this from the get go. At first, all was well, the night was cool, the moon was high, I reached to install the fans, when suddenly it struck. The tell tail sign, of fool-harty design! . . . The screw holes even though they were there, and in the right spots, were far too small to hold the new fans in place, so I had to once again, alter the case & make the holes bigger.Please note, at this point I cleaned the case... a few times... in fact a fair few times, why you ask? No... no you don't ask you know. It was to get rid of the millions of small metal shards created from the cutting and drilling. The case is sturdy, very sturdy, at least... the metal is, and as such, there were allot of particles to pick up. Again, don't get this case if you want to do something serious, the amount of modding you will have to do will not be worth it, find a better, bigger case.Anyhow, after cleaning the case again, smooth sailing right? Install motherboard? Yep, no issues, ram goes in, good good, Graphics card.... G-g.... graphics card? Hello, dear graphics card, is everything alright. "Why no my dear Sage, everything isn't alright, I'm a faulty piece of *cough*, but before you can find that out, you have to very cautiously install me into this case with it's slanted ATX slots." . . . Yeah, the case has slanted ATX slots on the back, you know, those big slots that any card you mount to your motherboard has to stick out of, and you would be terrified if anything didn't fit perfectly through? Those, were at a slight angle, not so bad that I couldn't get the card into the top slot, but if I tried to put it into the 4th slot down, or any lower.. well.. let's just say I would of needed to take everything apart again, and get cutting. Now I do know this might be because of me hauling the case all over the place from room to room to cut it up and then clean it, but if that is the case, it's still a partial fault of the bloody case for making me cut it to bits in the first place.So... here we are, sitting on a beach, the morning sun just barely breaking through the clouds over the water, just enough to let you see a warm glow glint on the top of the waves. Then suddenly, out of no where you hear it, the unforgettable sound, of a wave crashing into all of your hard work! Your CPU HAS BEEN FLOODED! No.. no, it didn't really get flooded, but the Radiator, and all it's water cooling goodness doesn't fit where it should. In most cases, you install your CPU watercooler (Radiator) just above your motherboard, where there is a few inch gap between the top of the motherboard, and the top inside of the case. Because this "modular" case expect you to set it up in one very specific way, in which you would put your radiator in the module, and have said module at the top of the case, there is no room here for a Radiator. . . Since I had already taken the time to set up the hard drive bays in the module, and moved it to the bottom of the case, ... and also installed two more 120mm fans down there, I wasn't exactly willing to just give up on my plan and shift it back to the top, remove the HHDs, and fans, and then shift the water cooler up there.. no.. I would find another way. So we did, we shifted the water cooler/radiator towards the front of the case, so it takes up half of the space it originally should have above half of the motherboard, and all of the top bay of the CD/DVD expansion drive area. Of course, un-like a logical case that thought you might have to do this to put your radiator here, there were no screw holes to hold the radiator in place, nor metal to drill them, so we had to put screws through washers, and then through the card so the washer would reach out far enough to grasp the metal edges of the top of the case, and hold the radiator in place. Please note, there were two holes that did work, so we only had to jury rig the other two. . . oh, and cut out a relatively small metal support that was at this point blocking air flow for the radiator.Anyway, that's it, at this point everything was smooth sailing from here, at least when it comes to the case, I have had a million other issues with the system itself, relating to the Graphics card which i hinted above was faulty, but that's a story for another review. In closing, I beg of you, if you want to set this case up in any way other than what they show, do NOT buy it, do not even consider buying it, lest you either A: Want to have a day completely eaten up by cutting metal, and cleaning up metal flakes, or B: Want to buy another module so you can have the room needed to put the radiator in the top... mind you, you will still have to mount the PSU somewhere besides the standard spot if you get a decent one, due to the serious build error in the back wall of the case.

The only issue I had with the case is that there is a bulge near the power supply to allow cables to feed behind the motherboard. I have a 1000w G2 from EVGA and it sits a bit askew in the case. Other than that it is a great case.

Pros plenty of room for my future upgrades, which include a crossfire gpu and liquid CPU cooling. The ports for cable management made installation very simple. Very pretty to look at.Cons its very large so find a good place for it.

Wonderful case.