Deep Silence 5 Full Tower E-ATX Case for Sensitive Audio Workstation and Storage Dense Applications

My last computer case was a mid-tower and I struggled with cable management. Also the video card almost didn't fit. This case is much larger, taller, wider, and deeper. It is great how cable management works with this case. Also, this case is sturdy, very solid, and quiet. Ventilation is also really good out of the box. It comes with two front fans and one out the rear. You can also add two more on the top and one more on the bottom of the case. If you need a hurricane, no problem. There is a secondary drive cage that I had to remove to fit my 1600W EVGA Titanium power supply. That is not a problem as there is still tons of space for a bunch of drives. This case is pretty heavy. Insulated inner panels. 5 stars for this one!

This is a great case. Roomy, well organized, and very good looking. It has everything I need for cable management, and has made my build a breeze. The sound dampening is very effective as advertized.I only have one issue with the rear fan in the case. It is emitting a very audible clicking sound, which kind of contradicts the whole point of the deep silence case. Without this issue this would be a 5 star case.I have reached out to the seller to see if this can be remedied, and will provide an update once a response has been received.**************Update**************Nanoxia Support came back to me in one business day, and has sent out a new rear fan! Now I can say this case will live up to it's name. Great case, great support, Five StarsBuild Details (Incase you care):ASRock X299 Taichi MoboIntel i7 7800X ProcessorNoctua NH-D15 Heat Sink - perfect pair for silence with this casePNY GTX Geforce 1050ti 4gb - Intially had an issue with a MSI 1050 ti video card and switched it out for the PNYG.Skill 32 Gb (2x16) Ripjaw V series 2400 MHzSamsung 850 PRO - 512GB SSDWD Black 1 TB HHDCorsair RM750x PSUI am using this computer for music production, and wanted to keep noise to a minimum. The DS 5 has delievered! I am very happy with this purchase, and customer service.

This case is large, easy to work with, and nearly silent. It's quite wide, wide enough for the large Noctua air coolers even with 4 SIMMs plugged in. Cabling is easy. There are lots of rubber grommet holes to the space on the right behind the motherboard, and that space is nearly an inch wide. With the fans on high, and the front door closed, it is nearly inaudible.The case is beautifully made, with foam padding on most interior surfaces, and on the door. Fit and finish is outstanding. But it has two engineering weaknesses. (1) the motherboard is mounted too high. There's about 2 inches between the bottom of the motherboard and the top of the power supply, with very little space at the top. That means that in this enormous case, there is very little space to mount cooling fans or water cooling on the top of the case. (2) Airflow through the front of the case with the the center drive cage mounted is unacceptable.The first problem is really just a problem if you want to mount water cooling on the top of the case. And if you do that, you are going to greatly increase the noise level. A case with fans on the top can't be as quiet as this one is designed to be. The second problem is severe, if you choose to install more than two hard drives in the machine.There are 3 drive cages. One fixed and two removable. All told, there are enough drive cages provided for 11 drives. If you put 11 drives in this machine, mounted as shown in the manual, they would melt down to molten slag. Okay, I am exaggerating. Only the third drive cage would melt down, because it is the one with no airflow at all. Throw away the third drive cage. It is marketing madness.I moved 5 drives I had previously mounted in a high airflow case into this one. In the old case, they were mounted right next to each other, 5 high, and they ran at 34C. In this case, I initially tried to mount them the same way. I put them all in the upper (removable) drive cage, which holds 5 drives. With all the fans on high, and the door closed, the hottest drive was running 49C. The coldest was 45C. To mitigate the problem, I had to do three things. (1) spread the drives between two drive cages, with an empty slot between each of them. (2) installed another intake fan on the bottom of the machine. (3) propped the door open with a gum eraser, so that the door was held open about 1/2". The door stays in that position, held partially by the door magnet, partially by fan suction. Doing that, the hottest drive cooled down to 39C, which is the top of the comfort range. with the door closed, it runs 43C.The problem is twofold, and could have been easily solved if the engineer who designed it was not a dunce. First off, the drive cages should have been built with airflow in mind. For each drive, the drive cages have only two small oval holes for airflow. Compare this the to the Fractal Design cases which have about 4 times as much open airspace in an otherwise nearly identical drive cage. Second problem is the front air entrance. The airflow slots on both sides of the front bezel are very narrow. They should be about 3X as wide. Also there is a very narrow passage from the slots to the fans. This passage should be wider. Sure it would be a little noiser, but not nearly as noisy as it is with the door propped open. And it's still a very quiet case, even with the door in that position.The manual and the marketing literature all brag about German engineering, and mostly those claims are correct. But the airflow through the front is a definite weak point, and one that could be easily cured. All it would take is a new front bezel, and a redesign of the drive cages, similar to the Fractal cage. If Nanoxia would make these changes, the case would be nearly perfect.