So today we're going to be unboxing the half 922 this is a buy request unboxing
I actually had someone send a uh a message to NC eser on Facebook or
however they sent the message I don't know but they asked her to ask me to
unbox this particular case and have a quick look at it so the 922 is kind of
like a little brother to the half 932
now the whole concept behind these half cases is not that they aren't a full
case and that they're half a case that
is not the case rather half HF stands
for high air flow so these cases are all
about gaming and they're all about cooling so let's have a quick look at
the overall features extreme air flow okay that was pretty much what I just
said Thank You case for backing me up here okay accommodates demanding
high-end components including F length graphics cards very important for
something like the 5970 which is ati's latest card which is like 12 inches long
just ridiculous okay so then 7 plus1 PCI
expansion slots okay cuz a lot of new vid U video cards a lot of new
motherboards have PCI Express slots at the very bottom so if you want to plug
in a dual slot graphics card you'll need an additional slot even though there
isn't an actual slot there on your motherboard okay for toolfree
installation design ready for liquid cooling radiators and Hardware so let's
have a closer look at this case now oh man is it ever staticky today I've been
Zapped by my mouse I've been Zapped by my car now I've been Zapped by this case
just ridiculous it's a good thing I'm not unboxing anything fragile to uh ESD
here okay so we'll take off the uh it's reasonably well packed you got about an
inch of foam around the case itself so I wouldn't expect you to get any damage in
shipping I mean Cooler Master does a very good job of that kind of stuff so
the half 922 comes with a user manual which includes a brief outline as well
as probably a little guide on how to do basic yeah a guide on how to do basic
stuff like open up the case so let's have a look at it from the front to
start okay so you can see we got 1 2 3 4
five 5 and 1/4 inch Bays one of them has an adapter so that you can also mount a
3 and 1/2 in floppy drive or media card reader whatever it is that you should
desire you got a couple front USB front audio and front eat this is a feature
we're starting to see a lot more these days now I don't actually unbox a lot of
cases so I don't have a like a procedure for this but on the top we will find the
power and reset as well as fan LED switches so that's kind of cool so you
can turn your fan or turn it off turn on your fan LED or turn it off there's your
power and hard drive indicator LEDs okay
let's get around to this side now personally I like to see a window on a
gaming case but if we have to make a compromise I think a loose mesh like
this is great because it allows for air flow which a window does doesn't and it
also allows you to see the cool gaming components inside so let's get
this let's see how many fans can we Mount here actually looks like you can
do wow either what is that a 160 mil fan
or yeah I don't know what you can mount here wow that's kind of cool I guess I
should kind of check the uh oh it's a 200 mm fan neat okay so inside we will
find our 5 and 1/4 in Drive Bays which include toolfree button clicky mounting
so all you have to do is Slide the drive in Click the button and it's done we
first saw this on the cosmos I believe next we have five 3 and 1/2 in internal
bays and I love this system these things look really flimsy but when you actually
put a drive into them you pop out the little uh the little nut thing here you
screw it back in you put a drive in it's really solid and when you throw it back
inside here it's just not going anywhere it's really secure so then let's have a
look inside of here accessory wise it's
going to come with probably a lot of your typical case fair so you got a
little speaker you've got a couple little brackets oh those are for
adapting probably to yeah I don't I'm not even going to guess okay so you have
screws for mounting the motherboard screws for mounting all of your drives
and that is pretty much it some zip ties they give you some zip ties for cable
management which is pretty nice to see and speaking of cable management we've
actually got a lot of of cable management features in here so your power supply mounts at the bottom but
then you can route the cables directly up the back of the motherboard tray and
you can reach around to I'm going to lean this back so you can see inside
better so you can reach around to the eight pin up here you can go from the
back and then you can come around to your 24 pin here on the motherboard you
can actually remove your CPU Cooler even if it has a back plate and replace it
without taking your motherboard out of the case which is awesome if you
actually change your CPU Cooler more often than you know once every year or
whatever okay then here we've got our seven PCI expansion ports and this one
is cool if you have like cathodes or if you have some kind of fan controller
knob that mounts on the back of the case you don't want to take up an actual
expansion slot you can mount like a switch or whatever on the back of a PCI
bracket here so that's pretty cool to see so we have an included 200 mil fan
in the b in the top as well as support for a dual 120 mm fan or radiator as
well in the top and then at the back we've got a 120 mm fan Mount as well as
liquid cooling holes should you desire to do an external radiator Mount down
here in the bottom we have what appears to be a 140 mm fan Mount and that is
also pretty cool to see you've got your usual stuff coming from the front these
cables AR they're not sleeves they're not black I mean I'd like to see
something like that because uh like the Corsair 800d case is Fant fantastic for
that kind of stuff the little aesthetic details but they're nice and long so you
can reach to wherever it is that they need to go let's have just one quick
look around at the back of the case Okay the back of the case looks like a case
awesome and then let's have a look at the other side panel as well as the
other side with the panel off I just want to have a quick look there so that
I can show you a little bit in more detail some of the cable management features so once again you can you got
enough space on this side of the motherboard tray that you can actually
route fairly thick cables without interfering with anything you've also
got a lot of room to mount cables and whatever else you need up here on the
other side of the 5 and 1/4 in base this is a front LED fan it is red and it
plugs in just like this you can see it wired up to the switch right here and
thank you for checking out my unboxing of the half 922 my phone's ringing and
I'm going to have to go now bye