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(More customer reviews)I have been having this casing (the Black Wavemaster) for about a year now, I think it is one of the best looking PC cases available. The aluminum construction allows for better heat transfer and weight reduction. The black casing comes with the side panels painted with high gloss auto paint, looks very nice. The front air intake has two 80mm fans attached and the air inlet on the outside is hidden with the use of a very stylish piece of aluminum placed in front of it, which also reflects the blue LED light cast from behind it onto the case. The casing comes with a sturdy aluminum door used to cover the drive bays. I have found that opening and closing the door to be a bit of a hassle so I leave it open most of the time. But the door does look nice when it is closed hiding all the drives and giving the unit a nice clean look.
My only problem with this casing is the internal design. It still uses screws and an `old school' way of mounting the drives. Where as some newer cases notably the Antec cases which use drive rails and some even mount the drives facing the side to allow better unrestricted air flow by having the data cables on the side without obstructing the air flow. But with today's SATA hard disk cabling the air flow restriction due to cabling is minimal, not what it used to be with standard IDE cabling.
The removable motherboard tray is very well designed, with the rear plate thats fits on to the connectors on the motherboard also being on the motherboard plate. This allows you to fix and line up the motherboard to the ports on the back easier outside of the case. Some other designs on have a removable motherboard tray but need you to line up the motherboard with the back face place correctly to fix it porperly. Sometimes this can take up some time as you need to do all this inside the casing and can't really see what your doing. With this design Coolermaster scores well by allowing you to fix the motherboard to the back faceplate outside the casing as the faceplate is also on the removable motherboard tray.
As with any high end casing, the unit does not come with a power supply. Giving the user the choice of using his or her own power supply with the appropriate power rating. I have noticed some users complain about the fact about not having a power supply provided, but this would only add to the cost and it would be a shame if some users had to ditch the provided power supply if their demands were much higher than the supplied power supply could handle.
Thumb screws are everywhere and are a welcome change from having to find your screwdriver to remove the cover and add in an expansion card. If only the 5.25" drives also came with drive rails as I mentioned earlier it would be a great design.
There are a total of three 80mm case fans provided with an option of adding a 4th by replacing the USB, Firewire bay and door on the top of the casing with a 80mm fan. The unit comes with a nice fan grill with filter. I have not required this and have not yet tried to fix this on. If like me, you prefer to have access to USB and firewire / audio on the top mounted ports, simply depress the door concealing them to have access to it. It would have been better to see the use of 120mm case fans to allow better air flow and reduce noise, not that I hear any noise with the standard case fans though, just that it would have provided better air flow. I have noticed some newer casings coming with 120mm case fans.
The power and reset buttions are styled very nicely with a little silver trim on the black buttons (on the black Wavemaster). I am not quite sure if the Silver or the Black version looks best, but one of the reasons for me to go with black was because there are black CD/DVD drives I can fix on to the unit and make it all blend with the same colour. For the silver version I am unsure of any drives that have a similar colour, though recently I have seen some manufacturers of optical drives offering different coloured face plates for their drives. Speaking about colours I have noticed Coolermaster releasing a blue ve rsion and another yellow version of this amazing design.
With all the hassle of using standard screws to mount the drives I would still go ahead and buy another of these cases when I need another PC for my business as after everything is setup you rarely need to remove any drives or mess around with the screws. All in all the external design is hard to beat and I have not seen any other casing that looks better than this.
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Product Description:
MODEL- WAVEMASTER VENDOR- COOLER MASTER INC FEATURES- Wave Master Mid-Tower chassis with NO power supply. Being one of the leading companies that makes quality and stylish aluminum enclosures our Wave Master breaks traditional square casing design to bring you a more sensational experience. * Durable lightweight aluminum alloy that greatly reduces its weight (34% in comparison to casings made of iron). * Stylish curved front plate design. * Sophisticated machine processing for exotic smooth finish. * Removable motherboard tray for fast and easy assembly -- SPECIFICATIONs --------------------------------------MOTHERBOARD- Accepts standard ATX boardsDRIVE BAYS - External: (4) 5.25 (1) 3.5 Internal: (4) 3.5SLOTS - (7) Expansion slotsCONNECTORs - (2) USB 2.0 ports (1) IEEE-1394/FireWire port (1) Microphone jack (1) Earphone jackCOOLING - Dual 80 x 80 x 25 mm fan attached front panel One 80 x 80 x 25 mm fan attached back panel (Exhaust)MATERIAL - All aluminum alloyPOWER- Not includedSIZE - 7.92w x 18.32h x 21.6d WT.- 17.2 lbs. MANUFACTURER WARRANTY: 1 YEAR
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