Look at the characteristics of the chassis.

Chassis Width

Small chassis is still not the market mainstream

First chassis as a hardware-supporting, the internal space is naturally there is a certain demand, to the current market, ATX Architecture chassis occupy the mainstream position, the whole tower, small chassis, HTPC, etc., can only temporarily step aside.

The width of the chassis is important to the thermal impact

Of course, for the chassis size requirements, each user has different requirements, this nature has no absolute conclusion, but from the compatibility to consider the case, the chassis is a bit wider, such as the current market general ATX Chassis, the general width of around 180mm, for the ordinary tower-type cooling enough, but a little larger, Or the side board has the fan demand situation, it appears powerless.

Side-blown radiator and width of the match to pay attention to

If you want to have a strong radiator compatibility, then the width of the chassis preferably around 210 for better, so even if the back plate to leave out called the comfortable line space, can also support the majority of high-end radiator use.

USB3.0

The latest 7 Series motherboards fully support USB3.0

In the last year, when Intel's 7 series motherboards were officially unveiled, the obvious change was the full support of the USB3.0 interface, which seemed to herald the arrival of the USB3.0 era.

A device without an interface would be very embarrassing.

And on the chassis, configure the USB3.0 interface of the atmosphere is gradually forming, some 100 yuan of the chassis, also began to standard its USB3.0 interface, it is very gratifying. Also know that the chassis update cycle is much longer than the hardware, now if you do not buy the configuration of the USB3.0 interface chassis, to 2-3 years later, there will be equipment and no front interface to use the embarrassing scene ...

The popularity of USB3.0 interfaces is very rapid.

Since the USB3.0 interface is mentioned, the small weave here also mention the problem of the pins inside the chassis. Because currently not all chassis USB3.0 connectors are pin-type connectors, some products still retain the extension mode.

Design of USB3.0 interface for extension cord on chassis

And in the selection, small series or suggest to avoid the choice of extension-type chassis, after all, this design is only a transitional product, and it will not only waste the interface on the motherboard, but also waste the I/O area space, you can say there are a lot of short boards.

Thickness of sheet

Plate shrinkage seems to be the mainstream of the chassis market

Today's chassis products, rich function is indisputable, but at the same time, the thickness of the plate is shrinking, such as many cost-effective products in the market although there is a good functional design and peripheral configuration, but the plate is only about 0.4mm, a little hard to press, concave, it is a bit unsightly.

Thin plate facing multiple fans, I guess it's only noisy.

In general, slightly better chassis products, the need to maintain the thickness of the plate in 0.6, 0.7mm or more, while the top point, basic in 1mm or more. Because the plate is thin, not only make the plate more easily deformed, but also more easily with the internal hardware resonance, causing more noise.

　　The line space.

For now, the back line design has become almost standard design (only a few manufacturers are still adhering to the traditional ...), many entry-level products are also configured on the back line design. For the back-line chassis, the design of line space, hole position, walk groove and so on, directly restricts the practicability of the chassis back line.

The back plate space directly restricts the difficulty of the line.

First of all, the back space to be sufficient, the current use of the habit, the motherboard board side plate between the best to control the distance between about 1.7cm, and 1cm around the line has been more reluctantly.

Power supply wire through hole

Line hole for the back line is also very critical, and in so many back line design, the requirements of the line hole is also the lowest, because from the current mainstream of the hole design, to meet the basic back line needs, it is more than sufficient.

Different alignment holes for several different motherboards

The current mainstream of the walk-hole design, is in the ATX Architecture motherboard installation Bit on the right side, design a row of line hole, generally 3, of course, there are more, there will be a larger hole, the power supply of the wire is usually through this hole through to the rear to carry out the line. In the more high-end chassis, there are different architectures for the motherboard to carry out the hole position design, although the improvement effect is not small, but still more intimate.

Do you have a CPU to go through the hole in your home chassis?

Another important hole is the CPU part of the hole, because on the part of the back-line chassis, you can not find this hole ... In other words, part of the chassis of the line, all to the CPU wire bypass or across the graphics card, greatly improve the length of the wire demand and destruction of beauty. When the user chooses the chassis, be sure to pay attention to whether the chassis is designed for this hole.

Dedicated Walking Groove

As for the line slot, the current market chassis products in this piece are uneven, there is no unification, the main feature of this piece of the product is very small ... However, users only need to pay attention to, in the vicinity of the line hole, there is no corresponding groove, they can be differentiated, the difficulty is not small.

　　Cooling and Dustproof

A problem is naturally the problem of dust-proof, which is the most difficult to balance the problem of chassis design.

At present, the more popular hybrid cooling duct

After all, for a different platform, heat demand is also different, so the chassis wind is not particularly fixed design methods, the current market is almost the most often mixed duct design, front and bottom into the wind, the top and back out of the air, so that the heat is basically already able to meet the vast majority of ordinary users use.

Nylon dust mesh is more suitable for use in general environment

However, heat and dust are complementary to each other, how to keep the heat, as far as possible to avoid damaging the dust-proof effect, the ability to test the chassis designer. And in the choice of chassis, it is important to note that if you do not want to frequent hardware cleaning dust, the choice of chassis in the top, side plate and the bottom of the cooling hole, all need to be equipped with dust-proof nets, nylon dust nets for the best.

　　Written in the last

In fact, the above mentioned a variety of, summed up is also relatively simple, nothing more than a good chassis need to have a higher hardware compatibility, in line with the hardware trend of the peripheral configuration, good materials, enough line space and comfortable hardware operating environment.