Review: Be Quiet! Silent Base 802 chassis

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Had to look twice like it was a logo hunt or something, found it ! 🙂
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I really like this. Super tidy clean looking case.
I have silent base 801. It looks almost identical, but mine has a glass side panel, solid front and top (with a few slits). Oh and you can reconfigure case so that the glass panel can go to the left or right of the case. Either way, it is really quite and I absolutely love that there is almost no dust, even though the case stands on the floor. I vacuum the mesh maybe once a month (even if that) and in a year I had it, there is basically no dust inside the case. If you are looking to buy one, I can only recommend.
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RabidBroccoli:

Hilbert, did you use the mesh or solid panel when testing acoustic/thermal performance? How about the top panel?
Good question. I should have listed that in the review; we tested with the closed panel setup. I doubt the mesh panels make much difference as we test based on fan acoustics solely. With all kinds of components installed like CPU coolers, graphics cards, obviously, the closed setup will always be a notch more silent. But I assume that people on the lookout for a sound dampened chassis like this will have purchased it for the closed configuration. Only if absolutely needed (e.g., you run into airflow issues due to hot components) would swap out a panel to mesh.
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Damm nice case i'll have to rem this one for next year. The Haf is a dust magnet.
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Nice case, the dimensions of the case itself are 24.5 cms wide, 507 cms tall. The attractive stand creates the additional width & height. I'm waiting for delivery of a new gaming computer (after 7 years of a SLI 780 system) and went for a CoolerMaster H500 SE as I like the 200mm x 2 front fans and the RGB bling after 7 years of austere Corsair 650D. Great that both the Be Quiet & CoolerMaster case give you mesh panel options. I think the glass side panel version with some RGB fans front & with a roof mounted AIO would be a lovely looking compromise. As Hilbert says, the all black version on review is very bland but that's what some like.