Inside the Coolermaster HAF932
Once you pop off the thumbscrews, the case opens up to reveal a very roomy space that will accommodate microATX, ATX and most EATX motherboards. All metal edges were deburred and rolled where necessary.
The top 230mm exhaust fan is pointed directly over the CPU area and like the other 230mm fans, spins at 1700RPM and pushes over 110CFM of air. The side panel fan can also be replaced with three smaller 120mm fans. Removing the fan also allows you to mount a radiator to the top of the case and take advantage of the fill port that is under the rubber mat.
If you’re looking for even more “High Air Flow” in the HAF, you can mount two more 120mm fans at the bottom of the case. This is accomplished by completely removing the power supply mounting mounting bracket.
The HAF932 is also setup for clean and clutter free cable routing. Popping off the other side panel, which is also held on by thumbscrews, reveals lots of cable routing options, keeping the main area free from the rats nest of cables that can impeded airflow. The gaping hole where the CPU would mount is actually one of the many ways Coolermaster has made assembling a system easy and we’ll tell you why in a sec.
Well enough show and tell on the features. Let’s get to throwing in a gaming rig to see how well it sets up and most importantly, how noisy and hot it can get in there.
The Test System
In order to test out the Coolermaster HAF932 for noise levels and thermal performance, I assembled a test system with the following components:
- eVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW DIGITAL PWM Motherboard
- INTEL Q6600 2.4GHz G0 stepping OC to 3.6 GHz
- AENEON Xtune DDR3-1866 4x1GB Memory Kit
- Coolermaster V8 CPU Cooler
- Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive (Provided by Seagate)
- Western Digital Raptor 74GB SATA Hard Drive (Provided by Western Digital)
- Foxconn 9800GTX-512N Extreme OC Video Card
- LG DVD Writer
- ASUS Xonar D2 PCI Sound Card
Coolermaster also provided us with one of their Ultimate UCP (Ultimate Circuit Protection) 1100W Power Supplies which also comes in 700W and 900W flavours. All of them offer up high quality components and a five year warranty. As we’ll see, the UCP is a perfect match for this case. If you’re looking for more information, you can check out the product info page.
All tests were performed under Windows Vista 64bit and we used 3DMark Vantage to heat things up. But first, we’ll run you through some of the things that we noticed that made the setup easy (or difficult).