Member Reviews: COOLER MASTER HAF X RC-942-KKN1 Black Steel/ Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case

In the main I find this a great case. It gives me good temps without sounding like a Merlin coming in too land, offers lots of space and the cable management is sound. A few issues though are apparent on this case - 1st and in my opinion worst is the "filters" are plastic mesh infront of the fans. This means too remove them you have to actually unscrew the fans or remove the plastic parts of the case roof or front. This is an irritation. The side fan sucks up a fair bit of dust (and my home is far from dusty). Having to actually unscrew the fan everytime I want to clean the filter is irritating. The top fans though take the prize. to remove the filters here and clean them properly you...

The case is what you pay for. Upping the price a bit from a normal full tower case gets you a ton of extras that you normally don't see. These are well worth it for people wanting the space and look. The best thing, in my opinion is the cable management. You can run cables almost from anywhere to behind the case/motherboard to any other area of the case. You get zip ties that can be attached to loop holes in the case to keep the cables orderly (I used twist ties so it wasn't permanent). There is a hot swap board for the bottom two 5 1/4" bays. This lets you mount hard drives in the trays and just slide them in to have them connected. Kinda nice, but I am not using them. The fans are...

I have really enjoyed this case. I've never had any major issues with it and it is very sturdy. I should know as I've hit it on the desk and hit with the chair a few times; there aren't any dents or scratches. There are quite a few more pros I can list, but they don't fit because I used all of the allotted characters. It fits very big motherboards, GPU's, and CPU coolers There's a little box/cover to hide your cables coming from the power supply The cable management is excellent, and the side panel without the window is molded to give extra room behind the motherboard tray Hot swap drive bays The front filter for the 230mm fan is removable for easier cleaning Dust plainly does not get...

Its a nice full tower case that will fit a decent watercooling kit but don't expect to fit enough cooling in there for a CPU and SLI/CFX. You may be able to sneak by with a 200mm in the front with minimal modding or if you don't care about optical bays you can fit another 360mm rad in the front. For the average user this a perfect case for the space. Its not worth the $200 though considering the Xigmatek Elysium is so much bigger and only $20 or so more. Be careful when trying to remove the tool-less connectors they will break easily.

Ordered this to replace a cheapo mid-tower case. The first obvious thing I noticed is it's flipping massive - only just fits under my desk. Once you get building inside it, you notice immediately how well-built the chassis is. Nothing will ever fall off, and all the screws have a weighty feel to them. No sharp edges or cheapo fittings to speak of here. The side fan is really nice. They built a little guard for it which directs air straight into your card's intake - lowered my GTX 480 temps by about 5ºC straight off. It is a little bit of a pain to connect the fan up every time you want to close the door again, mind. The stock CM fans are OK, though sometimes the 120mm one at the back...