Cooler Master HAF 922 Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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1,454 words · ~7 min read
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So today we're going to be unboxing the half 922 this is a buy request unboxing
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I actually had someone send a uh a message to NC eser on Facebook or
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however they sent the message I don't know but they asked her to ask me to
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unbox this particular case and have a quick look at it so the 922 is kind of
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like a little brother to the half 932
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now the whole concept behind these half cases is not that they aren't a full
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case and that they're half a case that
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is not the case rather half HF stands
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for high air flow so these cases are all
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about gaming and they're all about cooling so let's have a quick look at
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the overall features extreme air flow okay that was pretty much what I just
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said Thank You case for backing me up here okay accommodates demanding
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high-end components including F length graphics cards very important for
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something like the 5970 which is ati's latest card which is like 12 inches long
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just ridiculous okay so then 7 plus1 PCI
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expansion slots okay cuz a lot of new vid U video cards a lot of new
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motherboards have PCI Express slots at the very bottom so if you want to plug
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in a dual slot graphics card you'll need an additional slot even though there
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isn't an actual slot there on your motherboard okay for toolfree
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installation design ready for liquid cooling radiators and Hardware so let's
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have a closer look at this case now oh man is it ever staticky today I've been
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Zapped by my mouse I've been Zapped by my car now I've been Zapped by this case
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just ridiculous it's a good thing I'm not unboxing anything fragile to uh ESD
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here okay so we'll take off the uh it's reasonably well packed you got about an
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inch of foam around the case itself so I wouldn't expect you to get any damage in
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shipping I mean Cooler Master does a very good job of that kind of stuff so
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the half 922 comes with a user manual which includes a brief outline as well
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as probably a little guide on how to do basic yeah a guide on how to do basic
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stuff like open up the case so let's have a look at it from the front to
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start okay so you can see we got 1 2 3 4
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five 5 and 1/4 inch Bays one of them has an adapter so that you can also mount a
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3 and 1/2 in floppy drive or media card reader whatever it is that you should
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desire you got a couple front USB front audio and front eat this is a feature
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we're starting to see a lot more these days now I don't actually unbox a lot of
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cases so I don't have a like a procedure for this but on the top we will find the
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power and reset as well as fan LED switches so that's kind of cool so you
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can turn your fan or turn it off turn on your fan LED or turn it off there's your
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power and hard drive indicator LEDs okay
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let's get around to this side now personally I like to see a window on a
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gaming case but if we have to make a compromise I think a loose mesh like
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this is great because it allows for air flow which a window does doesn't and it
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also allows you to see the cool gaming components inside so let's get
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this let's see how many fans can we Mount here actually looks like you can
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do wow either what is that a 160 mil fan
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or yeah I don't know what you can mount here wow that's kind of cool I guess I
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should kind of check the uh oh it's a 200 mm fan neat okay so inside we will
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find our 5 and 1/4 in Drive Bays which include toolfree button clicky mounting
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so all you have to do is Slide the drive in Click the button and it's done we
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first saw this on the cosmos I believe next we have five 3 and 1/2 in internal
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bays and I love this system these things look really flimsy but when you actually
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put a drive into them you pop out the little uh the little nut thing here you
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screw it back in you put a drive in it's really solid and when you throw it back
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inside here it's just not going anywhere it's really secure so then let's have a
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look inside of here accessory wise it's
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going to come with probably a lot of your typical case fair so you got a
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little speaker you've got a couple little brackets oh those are for
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adapting probably to yeah I don't I'm not even going to guess okay so you have
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screws for mounting the motherboard screws for mounting all of your drives
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and that is pretty much it some zip ties they give you some zip ties for cable
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management which is pretty nice to see and speaking of cable management we've
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actually got a lot of of cable management features in here so your power supply mounts at the bottom but
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then you can route the cables directly up the back of the motherboard tray and
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you can reach around to I'm going to lean this back so you can see inside
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better so you can reach around to the eight pin up here you can go from the
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back and then you can come around to your 24 pin here on the motherboard you
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can actually remove your CPU Cooler even if it has a back plate and replace it
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without taking your motherboard out of the case which is awesome if you
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actually change your CPU Cooler more often than you know once every year or
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whatever okay then here we've got our seven PCI expansion ports and this one
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is cool if you have like cathodes or if you have some kind of fan controller
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knob that mounts on the back of the case you don't want to take up an actual
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expansion slot you can mount like a switch or whatever on the back of a PCI
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bracket here so that's pretty cool to see so we have an included 200 mil fan
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in the b in the top as well as support for a dual 120 mm fan or radiator as
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well in the top and then at the back we've got a 120 mm fan Mount as well as
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liquid cooling holes should you desire to do an external radiator Mount down
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here in the bottom we have what appears to be a 140 mm fan Mount and that is
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also pretty cool to see you've got your usual stuff coming from the front these
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cables AR they're not sleeves they're not black I mean I'd like to see
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something like that because uh like the Corsair 800d case is Fant fantastic for
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that kind of stuff the little aesthetic details but they're nice and long so you
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can reach to wherever it is that they need to go let's have just one quick
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look around at the back of the case Okay the back of the case looks like a case
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awesome and then let's have a look at the other side panel as well as the
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other side with the panel off I just want to have a quick look there so that
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I can show you a little bit in more detail some of the cable management features so once again you can you got
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enough space on this side of the motherboard tray that you can actually
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route fairly thick cables without interfering with anything you've also
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got a lot of room to mount cables and whatever else you need up here on the
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other side of the 5 and 1/4 in base this is a front LED fan it is red and it
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plugs in just like this you can see it wired up to the switch right here and
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thank you for checking out my unboxing of the half 922 my phone's ringing and
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I'm going to have to go now bye