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| Brand: | Fractal Design |
| Item Height : | 46 centimetres |
| Item Width: | 23 centimetres |
Technical Details
- Stylish, minimalistic front panel with alu-look
- Optimized for performance, massive cooling and water cooling support
- A total of 8(!) fan slots (2x 140mm in front, 3x 120/140 in top, 1x 120/140 in bottom, 1x 120/140 in rear, 1x 140/180mm in side panel)
- 3x 140mm fans included (1x in front, 1x in rear and 1x in top)
- USB3 support in front panel
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Product Description
Product Description
Fractal Design Arc case in midi tower format offers plentiful of cooling options, up to 8 fans of various sizes can be installed. Uniquely for its small size, it offers room to mount a thick, dual 120mm radiator in the top panel. The elegant top and front panel are both easily removable and pre-fitted with fan filters to ensure a dust free interior. The sleek black interior is matched and contrasted with white expansion slots and HDD trays. Similar to the Define series, all the HDD trays are fitted with anti vibration silicon grommets. The upper HDD cage is removable and rotatable, which enables support for very long graphic cards. Are you one of those users always ending up with a case full of tangled cables? No more. The Arc series offers a convenient and good looking way of hiding them away. The motherboard has rubber covered holes in which you can easily route the cables behind the motherboard, which has ample space for a lot of cables.
Product Description
The new Fractal Design Arc Series of cases create a niche of their own; a combination of stellar performance and cooling options with stylish minimalist looks and an overall understated elegance. This new Arc Series Midi Tower format offers plenty of cooling options up to 8 fans of various sizes can be installed. Unique for its small size it also offers room to mount a thick dual 120mm radiator in the top panel. Elegant top and front panels are both easily removable and pre-fitted with fan filters to ensure a dust free interior. The sleek black interior is matched and contrasted with white expansion slots and HDD trays. Similar to the Define Series all the HDD trays are fitted with anti-vibration silicon grommets. The upper HDD cage is removable and rotatable which enables support for even the longest graphic cards. Tangled cables are a thing of the past as the Arc Series offers an innovative convenient and great looking way to hide them away. The motherboard mounting plate has rubber covered holes in which you can easily route the cables to a compartment behind the motherboard which has more than ample storage space.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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My last case was the original Antec Sonata (an old but great case at the time) but this case excited me even more than the Sonara when I unboxed it and saw the interior.
I choose this case over the Define R3 as I preferred the looks and slightly smaller size. It was delivered to my workplace and was admired internally and externally by quite a few workmates. I think it has a cool yet mature style compared to the awful "I'm a spaceship" cases out there ;-)
At home I had a great time building with this case!
The thumbscrews are very stiff when first opened. But they supply an Alan key with a Phillips head on one end to assist with that, so no problem. You need to be brave when pulling the case panels for the first time.
Cable management was a breeze with plenty of good sized and well placed holes allowing you to route behind the motherboard tray. I would have liked more hoops for cable ties, but to be honest that's just me being far too picky.
An unexpected bonus was discovering that the 3.5" floppy bay has a removable tray that you can mount a 2.5" SSD onto it and leave the removable 3.5" hard drive caddies for hard drives.
The 140mm case fans shift a lot of air at higher revs, but emit a high pitched squeal if you try to rev them too low using the supplied fan controller (supports three 3-pin fans). As I'm interested in having a very quiet PC I've order replacement fans. I'm not taking any stars off this review as even at mid revs the fans were still reasonably quiet.
The USB3 port on the front panel expects your motherboard to have a 19 pin USB3 header, so if you want that to be operational do check your motherboard manual. If like me your motherboard doesn't have this you can buy an IO card (e.g. Delock and Silverstone) but I'm going to wait until the price drops on those.
I choose this case over the Define R3 as I preferred the looks and slightly smaller size. It was delivered to my workplace and was admired internally and externally by quite a few workmates. I think it has a cool yet mature style compared to the awful "I'm a spaceship" cases out there ;-)
At home I had a great time building with this case!
The thumbscrews are very stiff when first opened. But they supply an Alan key with a Phillips head on one end to assist with that, so no problem. You need to be brave when pulling the case panels for the first time.
Cable management was a breeze with plenty of good sized and well placed holes allowing you to route behind the motherboard tray. I would have liked more hoops for cable ties, but to be honest that's just me being far too picky.
An unexpected bonus was discovering that the 3.5" floppy bay has a removable tray that you can mount a 2.5" SSD onto it and leave the removable 3.5" hard drive caddies for hard drives.
The 140mm case fans shift a lot of air at higher revs, but emit a high pitched squeal if you try to rev them too low using the supplied fan controller (supports three 3-pin fans). As I'm interested in having a very quiet PC I've order replacement fans. I'm not taking any stars off this review as even at mid revs the fans were still reasonably quiet.
The USB3 port on the front panel expects your motherboard to have a 19 pin USB3 header, so if you want that to be operational do check your motherboard manual. If like me your motherboard doesn't have this you can buy an IO card (e.g. Delock and Silverstone) but I'm going to wait until the price drops on those.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Very large 'midi' case, especially the width, which will eat even the largest cooler (e.g. Dark Rock Advanced for instance). Plenty of room to work, and more fan cooling than you would even need (3 fans fitted, space for too many more). The fan controller is not very impressive, since wiring the fans to it neatly is a challenge (it fits in a backplate slot, rather than front or top of the case). Lots of opportunity to hide other wiring behind the motherboard, especially if you are not fitting water cooling.
Apart from that, no complaints .. pretty quiet, good airflow, and well built. I was previously a Lian-li case fan, but this is (IMO) as good and cheaper.
I personally hate front doors on computers, but if you prefer 'even quieter, with a door' (and worse airflow, and a PITA when using the CD drives) then the fractal R3 looks equally good.
Apart from that, no complaints .. pretty quiet, good airflow, and well built. I was previously a Lian-li case fan, but this is (IMO) as good and cheaper.
I personally hate front doors on computers, but if you prefer 'even quieter, with a door' (and worse airflow, and a PITA when using the CD drives) then the fractal R3 looks equally good.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Amazon Verified Purchase
ive been looking for a new case for the best part of a year and ended up narrowing it down to core 3000,arc midi, corsair 400r but desided on this one as it has good quality fan filters in the bottom and front of the case,cable management rubber grommets,plenty of room behind the motherboard tray for cables ect,ive removed the top hdd cage and now my gpu runs 10c cooler! my overall system temps have dropped a great deal. i took the fan from the top and placed it in the front so ive got 2 fans for intake,also ordered another 140mm fan for the bottom as another intake so temps will probably drop again. the fans are virtually silent which is good. the case is also very wide so will support even the biggest cpu coolers and of corse it will take a 240mm rad in the roof :) id recommend this case to anyone wanting a very tidy and cool system,it comes with loads of accsessories inc a fan controller for in the vertical expansion slot on the back.
buy one :)
buy one :)
Most Recent Customer Reviews
A great midi case/
Already been two pretty comprehensive review on this but just adding my own two cents.
Excellent Midi case, lots of width and depth. Also comes with a usb 3. Read more
Excellent Midi case, lots of width and depth. Also comes with a usb 3. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Nambread
Highly Practical and great value
This case it just what I needed. It has plenty of Hard drive bays and only two optical drive bays - a sensible layout. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Dessum
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