Silverstone Fortress FT02 Case

ddrueding

Fixture
Joined
Feb 4, 2002
Messages
19,511
Location
Horsens, Denmark
I like the looks of it. I hadn't seen a chassis with the motherboard oriented that way, though I have been doing it since '06 in my custom builds, so I think it is a good idea ;)
 

MaxBurn

Storage Is My Life
Joined
Jan 20, 2004
Messages
3,245
Location
SC
Does it allow for the long optical drives? Some can run a little over 8 inches. I would also like some vibration isolation on the HDD racks.
 

sechs

Storage? I am Storage!
Joined
Feb 1, 2003
Messages
4,709
Location
Left Coast
Does it allow for the long optical drives? Some can run a little over 8 inches. I would also like some vibration isolation on the HDD racks.
Reading some reviews, it seems that one of the complaints is that long (i.e., old) optical drives tend to block the motherboard; particularly, when using the top bay, the last slot of a board may get covered. The general solution is to use one of the lower bays and work around any connectors it may cover. The only reason you'd need all of those 5.25 bays is if you were going to mount a hotswap cage.

The similarly designed RV02 has a different setup for the 3.5 bays, and is spec'ed as having a suspension system.
 

sechs

Storage? I am Storage!
Joined
Feb 1, 2003
Messages
4,709
Location
Left Coast
Nope. the board is set back from all the edges, so their is an internal compartment for all the cables to connect.
Well, to be more exact, they do come out the top, but there's a perforated cover that seems to do a pretty good job hiding that fact. There's a "hole" to allow you to route cables to the back of the case.

One reviewer complained that there wasn't enough space under the cover for a video cable using a DVI-VGA adapter.
 
Top