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Rosewill Armor Evolution E-ATX Mid-Tower Case

2013-08-29
hey guys this is Dimitri and welcome back to another Haruka Knox review the Rose will are more evil gaming case is actually quite interesting as it's specifically designed for e ATX motherboards the form factor is rather unusual with longer body to accommodate for why their motherboards but it is tall just like a mid tower so priced at $120 this might be an alternative pick if you don't want to opt out for a full Tower the front mesh panel is something I really like it allows for good airflow reveals the red LED fans that are included plus it blends in with the rest of this industrial design we do have three optical base with dust proof covers and taking off the front panel there are two included fans that are attached to the frame with a built-in dust filter and below the panel is very discreet and awkwardly placed fan LED button as the rest of the connections are the front with four USB ports your audio jacks and your PR buttons the sides and top panels both have a protruding mesh with rubber grommets for all the fans and I do like how Roseville incorporates excellent air flow out of the box with a 200 millimeter side fan and dual 120mm fans for the top so a total of six fans is included with the our more evil case take a look at the back we have seven PCI expansion slots and a removable power supply dust filter so the internals are interesting because of this added length for e-atx support there is 13 and a half inches of clearance until the fan bracket leaving a compatibility for long graphics cards without any compromises the drive cage includes seven slots with metal drive caddies these are not tools but they are a lot sturdier than a lot of the plastic ones we see today now the fan bracket may come in very useful not just for additional airflow but once removed you can easily mount a 240 million radiator and portion pool and still have a little over 11 inches of clearance so I could see this being an interesting case for multi radio system and while it is tight the rad fits in just fine with our GTX 590 now I am also happy to see Armour Evo is well equipped for cable management with multiple wrap grommets for both standard ATX and ATX motherboards lots of room at the rear and scattered cable tie mounts all around and you will see later on how well the build cleans up now one of the most common things we've seen cases is the lack of proper spacing between the top fans and the motherboard and we only get one inch of space between the fans and the memory modules on our motherboard so giving us more space would be nice to avoid compatibility issues with CPU towers and of course a top mounted radiators and continue when the assembly check out how clean the system looks this is due to proper grommet location and flipping the case around you can see no loose cables and super simple job for wiring all your components and so to wrap it up the armor Evo is a well-built mid tower with the purposely longer frame to allow compatibility with ATX motherboards without merging it into a full Tower it certainly comes equipped with excellent airflow out of the box with six fans and promising water cooling support with excellent cable management however with such large site intake potential the mesh is not filtered which will cause massive amounts of dust and a slightly taller body it would be nice to accommodate four top mounted radiators and CPU towers and because the side panels are much longer than your standard it was a bit more difficult making sure all the hinges were in place and also at the $120 they are sure making it difficult for the armored evil to be competitive considering the latest 10th of 530 from in 6d is similarly priced but off far superior functionality will define excel r2 from fractal design both of which have EA TX support now also while our model arrived just fine without any dents or broken fans Rosewill quality control for this particular model has received numerous complaints so we hope they're listening and improving as well so thanks guys for watching and we'll see you in the next one
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