Assembly and components
The centerpiece is an Intel Core i5-8400 and an MSI B360 Gaming Arctic. Both parts are currently reasonably cheap to get, although the purchase of the motherboard is almost a procurement crime. The reason is not in the color white, but in the name addition Arctic. Although motherboards hardly belong to the brand portfolio, the use of the term in Germany has been prohibited by the same company that has already forced AMD to rename Fusion. However, Amazon doesn't bother with it and so I was able to buy it for 116 euros with Prime and long haul then also here. Ätsch!
But without a cooler, even the nicest CPU is worth nothing. And so in the end an Alpenföhn Matterhorn found its way into our Tetris housing. Of course, in good white. The cooling performance was overblown, because even at 25 degrees in the fully heated room, the cooler and original fan were barely audible and would be gallantly ironed away from the graphics card in full-body use. There's nothing that's going to work either, so this solution fits.
What caused problems, however, is the outdated, symmetrical construction of the Matterhorn, as the mounted fan blocks almost two of the four RAM slots. More modern coolers have curved heatpipes and a rear-facing cooling block. Unfortunately, this does not exist with the Matterhorn and so you have to move the fan up a bit. But even so, the cooling capacity is still loose enough to loosely tame the Core i5-8400.
Which would have made us seamlessly at RAM. Here, too, you have to look for white specimens. In the end, I decided on four modules with 4 GB DDR4 3200 from Patriot. I even run the Patriot Viper at 3600 MHz, but the motherboard was no longer stable. In the end, the price is a little revenge, especially when it is fully stocked of all four storage banks. But since we are in the middle-class area anyway and the Core i5-8400 is not a supercar, that fits.
As a graphics card I use a white Asus GTX 1060 Dual, matching the performance class, because here too it is difficult to get anything in white. And seriously, the RTX 2080 Ti Hall of Fame would have been over it. The current combination fits more and the picture fits together nicely. However, the power supply is still missing and there is something white about it. That's when the Seasonic Prime Snow Silent Titanium came to me!
Apart from the fact that it acts almost inaudibly in this power class and the fan almost always stays off, it is very easy to install as a fully modular power supply. What is not needed simply stays away. And you don't have to discuss efficiency, that's all right. So nothing would stand in the way of safe and quiet operation. Well, almost nothing, because there are two smaller hurdles to overcome during assembly.
Assembly tips
The connection to the lower sockets of the motherboard is a bit tricky and you should plug everything in before screwing on the fans. Since the motherboard almost hits the ground, there are also no cable ducts to the back, so you have to lay everything from the front. This can become a bit frivolous, especially when retrofitting, and also require filigree fingers if you don't want to expand all the air ices again.
It is very nice to see that even the connection for the HD audio was only possible with a lot of noise. Here, the connection cable of the housing should have been one or two centimetres longer. That is quite close, but it was just enough. Nevertheless, the manufacturer should definitely improve here if you do not want to work with adapters in the purchase. All the other fixtures were quite easy to do and the whole thing was celebrated in less than an hour.
Summary and conclusion
Well, 300 to 400 euros hurt a bit. But if people spend 2000 Euros on graphics cards or 1000 Euros on CPUs without pain, then even a fancy case can cost a little more. At least when you stand by it. If all this is too much, you don't have to worry about the price anyway, because it does not belong to the target group of the game-mon. If you feel like you belong there, you can think a round further about whether that would be 307 for him.
The workmanship quality is without blemish and the slightly too short cables will be able to tame a quiet and delicate hand just as much. The rest runs like a string during assembly. The cooling performance is good, even if you should not park the box on high-flower carpet, because the gills are down. In my view, this is also the only technical limitation for the installation site. The rest is as usual. From this point of view, of course, it is an exotic that InWin can be paid for. But if you are on such an LED matrix, please. Why not?
And if you don't have enough, here's the threatened video on my YouTube channel also for the reading lazy. or as a compote to refresh what you have just read.
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