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The Fractal Design Define 7 is equipped with two Dynamic X2 GP mm intake fans in the front of the chassis and a single 140mm exhaust fan in the rear, over the CPU socket area. The rear exhaust fan location supports both 120mm and 140mm fans as do the mounting locations in the base of the case. The Fractal Design Define 7 is equipped with an excellent fan filtration system, with large removable nylon filters on every fan mounting location including the power supply. Fractal Design wisely designed the filter on the bottom of the case to be removed from the front, eliminating the need to move your system for filter maintenance and cleaning. Around the back, you'll find an opening for a bottom-mounted PSU, seven expansion card slots plus two vertical, a standard motherboard I/O area and an exhaust fan mounting location that supports both 120mm and 140mm fans.
Open layout for massive headroom
To its credit, the door is actually doing something other than suffocating the CPU, because opening the door brings noise levels to 38.9 dBA. That said, that’s not really fair to say, because you could also run the fans significantly slower and achieve better-than-stock performance, which would be a net positive. Prior to load testing, we collect idle temperature results for ten minutes to determine the unloaded cooling performance of a case's fans and air channels. Thermal benchmarking is conducted for 1400 seconds (23 minutes), a period we've determined sufficient for achieving equilibrium. The over-time data is aggregated and will occasionally be compiled into charts, if interesting or relevant.
GN Case Testing Bench
Just below the surface of the top panel, you will find a large plastic mesh fan filter, and below that are mounting locations for three 120mm or two 140mm fans. The Fractal Design Define 7 works with two different internal layouts, "open" and "storage." Open layout resembles many current mid-tower ATX cases on the market today. An open main chamber equipped with a pair of 3.5-inch hard drive mounts under the PSU tunnel and a couple SSDs mounts tucked neatly behind the motherboard tray. Storage mode allows for up to 14 hard drives to be installed in the chassis by moving a portion of the hard drive tray to the opposite side of the chassis and installing the additional hard drive trays included in the accessory box.
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Specifications and Features
The time required for higher-level exchange is therefore used more effectively, and the net effect is a synergy of activities that often translate into economic, social, and other benefits. Fractal’s Define 7 stock performance runs toward the bottom of the cases, and is one of the worst we’ve tested recently. It’s unfortunate, but the positive side is that opening the door isn’t really a modification or a deviation from how the case is intended to be used. The takeaway is basically that, if you’re running a high power workload, you should open the door. Stock performance is nearing Bitfenix Enso levels of terrible, and that’s all because of the door. With the door open -- again, no removal of panels required -- it’s down to 53 degrees over ambient.
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The exhaust fan mounting location features slotted screw holes that lets you adjust the position of the fan to fine tune airflow or make room for system components. Thanks to an adaptable dual-layout interior, the Define 7 can easily accommodate motherboards all the way up to 285 mm E-ATX, extensive storage arrays with up to 14 HDDs, 4 SSDs and an ODD bay, and robust cooling with a 420 mm radiator and up to nine fans. Our standardized fan testing is next, where we replace the fans with a defined set of Noctua fans, including two 140mm front fans and one 120mm rear fan. We keep the fans in the same positioning as stock when possible, as it is here, and we also mark each fan so we know which of the two front fans goes in the top versus the bottom, as their natural RPM manufacturing variance will matter for this.
Nexus+ 2 fan hub
But as with biological and computer structures, the story does not end at any particular scale. The boundary of a room is perforated with smaller structures like rectangular doors and windows. The boundary of larger spaces might be perforated with colonnades (we are talking about living spaces and not the dead spaces characteristic of post-war architecture and urbanism). These repetitive perforations at smaller scales—the fractal loading that results from the characteristic “generative algorithm” of fractal structure—will often continue on down to the scales of detail and ornament. It seems likely that we, the users, making our way through these places find such complex environments (complex in a very precisely ordered sense) easier to comprehend, more intelligible, more usefully organized, and more beautiful. We are very good at reading the multiple scales of these “place networks”.
Substantial cooling
This interface can catalyze urban interactions, mimicking the non-smooth surface of a chemical catalyst. (c) Longitudinal tension and breaking along the entire line form a “perforated” fractal, here shown at its first stage. This is a natural mechanism for defining an urban colonnade and any semi-permeable urban boundary, such as a row of bollards that protect pedestrian from vehicular traffic. Noise levels for the Fractal Define 7 at a standardized measuring distance of 20” plotted 34.6 dBA with the door closed.
We always appreciate removable radiator trays, but this one should make working with tubing especially easy. In this review we will be looking at the opposite of a small form factor case and what could be called the latest and most comprehensive iteration of the Define series from Fractal Design. This case builds on previous case designs while still keeping with the company directives focusing on build quality, silent operation and versatility with modern minimalist aesthetics. During Computex in 2015 I met with them on what I would call a “speed date”. This one day media event was staged in a local restaurant allowing people to eat and drink until your meeting.
Presenting North XL
At 25.8 delta T over ambient, we don’t really have anything to complain about or to praise. The CPU thermals ar ehigh, though, at 31 degrees versus neighboring results of 27, 22, and 28 degrees over ambient. It’s toward the top of our truncated chart, with the RV02, H500 blank Mesh, and H710 all nearby. For a gaming-style workload, the Define 7 does fine and doesn’t need the door to be opened on our bench.
Depending on the color you choose, the tempered glass side panel is available in clear, light or dark tinting. The chassis measures 546.8 x 240 x 474.2 mm and tips the scales at just over 15.9 kg (35 pounds). When outfitted with a tempered glass side panel is priced at $170 / £154 or $150 / £144 without it. The pedestrian networks of medieval Rome have a fractal structure, extending into the buildings and even the rich ornamental details of the buildings themselves. These “place networks” offer pedestrians a dense and overlapping set of choices of movement, views, and other enriching experiences.
At that time they would quickly go over the products allow you to take photos and send you on your way. In terms of content everything was hyper focused and very informative. This was fairly early in the Fractal timeline as they were showed AIO coolers, custom fans and several small form factor cases as everyone was scrambling to get some of that MiniITX action. Configured in the server layout, graphics card are limited to 315 mm. Power supplies up to 250mm can be installed in the case without removing the bottom hard drive rack.
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