The Fractal Design Define S lends the appearance, sound dampening. If you are looking for a mid-tower PC case with pre-installed acoustic insulation material as well as silent fans and on top of that its fully compatible with custom watercooling gear, this is a great choice. But wait, the Nano S case measures 203x330x400 mm so the ATX motherboard. Whether i was using water or not, after removing those drive bays i have seen a consistent 5C drop in temps across the board. Fractal Design Define S, Midi Tower, PC, Black, ATX, micro ATX, Mini-ATX, 18 cm, 45 cm. The Fractal Design Define S2 is a PC case which we can definitely recommend. Write a review Fractal Design Define Nano S Gaming ITX Case - Black Meet the. In all 3 (though only one was water cooled) i stripped out the front drive cages because the weakness of a FD case is how badly those drive cages (even when not used) destroy case airflow. Buy Fractal Design Define R4 with Window Black Pearl Silent ATX Mid Tower Case with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. So they decided there was a market for a slighly modified version of the r5 in the water cooling enthusiast community.Īs a sidenote, I've owned the R4, R5 and Arc Midi. Fractal Design learned that water cooling enthusiasts were buying their R5, and removing all the drive cages, including the dvd drives to fit large (>240mm) sized radiators into the case.
I've owned a number of Fractal Design cases, the S is just a commercial version of a standard case mod done to the R5. all they took out of the define r5 (to turn it into the S) was the front mounted drive mounts, and did a little tinkering with the back motherboard tray, creating more room then normally would be found in a define r5/r4 The Define S is pretty much identical to the R5.