AZZA Silentium 920 Case Review - PAGE 3

The Silentium 920 is spacious enough inside to accommodate five internal hard drives and a 3-way SLI/CrossFireX graphics card configuration. The fifth external bay is actually a hidden 3.5" drive bay; this is an excellent place to install an 45GB Accelerator drive that will give a nice boost to your mechanical drive (for example). The white buttons in the upper right are the 5.25" drive bay quick mount latches.

The motherboard tray retains the cutouts that allow for the routing of cables, but unlike other cases on the market they do not have any type of protective cover around the edges to protect the cables from accidental cuts and tears. Normally this would concern me but the edges have a nice round and smooth finish to them, so AZZA scores some points for taking this into consideration during the manufacturing of the Silentium 920.

On the other side of AZZA's Silentium 920 you have a total of thirteen cable tie downs to assist in cable management.

With five hard drive trays, the Silentium 920 offers ample room for your storage needs. The hard drive trays differ slightly from traditional trays as these have plastic pins molded into the frame instead of requiring screws to secure the drives themselves. Just above the drive trays you can see the hidden 3.5" drive bay. Again this bay can be used for additional internal storage, or you can use the optional faceplate and mount a card reader in this bay.

The Silentium 920 is cooled by a pair of 120mm fans manufactured by Globe (specifications are 1,200 RPM, 45.2CFM with a rated noise level of 22.3 dBA; power draw is 0.26A at 12V).

The sound dampening material used to insulate the Silentium 920 has been applied to the top, bottom and both side panels, and measure a 1/4" thick. This should provide adequate noise reduction when both the processor and graphics card fans are running at their maximum rotational speeds.

The bundled accessories package contains the standard hardware, with the exception of the motherboard speaker and 5.25" drive bay faceplate that will allow you to mount any accessory that fits into a 3.5" opening. Other contents include the hard drive, optical drive and motherboard screws and standoffs, and two resuable and two disposable cable ties.