Silverstone Raven 3 + Internal LC Possibilities

The RV03 is SS's third gen remodel of the Raven case series, as some have probably observed the Ravens are getting progressively improved. The Raven 2 featured a smaller profile than the RV01, and also had 180mms directly feeding air to the CPU/NB section that the RV01 lacked, as well as adding a 2.5" bracket internally. The RV03 further improves on it, taking the gigantic depth the RV02 still had and shrinking down the entire case by sticking the PSU up front. HDD space was preserved and even now allows full usage of all 5.25" bays upfront (7 I think? Didn't count); this was achieved by placing the HDDs behind the case. The case comes with double 180mms in the mobo area, and lets you mount two sets of two fans up in the front bay area if you want, another fan at the case rear, and a final fan on the right side panel to supply air to hotter hard drives if you have them (The180mm fans are staggered in a way that was designed with thermal testing of the HDD area so that the most HDDs would cool off better). Can't wait for this thing's release!

Finally tracked down the RV03 at CES, looking forward to this case's release!



Size of my RV01's getting cumbersome in my new locale, as well as my NB getting a bit choked and the internal wiring layout being pretty restrictive; I might look to the RV03 sometime in the future.


Edited by ablahblah - 10 Feb 2011 at 5:18pm

(bump 2) If anyone's keeping track at all, lol, I got an email back from Tony Ou (In that vid) of Silverstone; he's saying that the mounts aren't going to fit dual rads perfectly. However, like I said, you can easily just mount up a fan in one of the mounts, stick a dual rad on that fan, and have the second fan cooling the rad but not necessarily hardpointed. That would still work perfectly for a double 240 rad, single 120 rad internal setup I believe 

Maybe DSO could make that there NINJA ASSASSIN rig
(the tj11 I linked above)

if this fits a full e-atx i can finally pull my skulltrail back out of my closet and put it in something again, yay !

UPDATE - RV03 is officially released by Silverstone. When it hits stores, i don't know, but it's on site FINALLY.

http://silverstonetek.com/raven/products/index.php?model=RV03&area=usa