Rosewill TYRFING Tower Case layout

The project is moving along and I'm already assembling items for the next one, well, during these pandemic times we have to do something to keep our minds, and hands, busy. 

A few more photos of the current project, the first showing the Rosewill case, which is a bit of a monster.

A good example of waiting for the right moment, I bought this on the black Friday weekend, it was half price if I recall, thirty-five bucks and it was bought "because it was so cheap" for some future project, and here, six months or so later, it is the current project.

Amazingly at the price, it came with two 120mm pre-installed fans, front and rear, although the downside to those fans is that they are three pin connectors. The three pin fans are voltage variable speed and the preferred four pin allow for greater fan speed control and can be quieter at idle, how they do that exactly is lost on me, so four legs good, three legs bad (Animal Farm reference there).

The case is big enough for the Gigabyte ATX (30.5cm x 19.0cm) motherboard and has probably too many expansion options. As with most modern cases nowadays, it has power supply mounting at the bottom and both side panels are removable for access and cable management. I've already noticed a flaw in my cable management from the above photo as I have tied the front USB 3.0 cable to the front panel cables right where the graphics card will be, ah well, an easy fix and another cable tie bites the dust.

I suspect the large case format is going the way of the dodo, hence the low price, as more and more computers are being built with mini-ATX and micro-ATX motherboards, M.2 SATA and NVME drives and in reality, the only thing keeping computers physically large are the monstrous graphics cards.

The need for those six hard drive and DVD bays at the front is going away, but as can be seen from the above photo, the gap in the middle is required for the long graphics cards, and apparently, this case can handle a 400mm long card.

You will notice that the side panel has a window into the workings of the PC, and this is for the ridiculous trend of turning computers into little disco boxes via RGB lighting. That's my old man's opinion though, being an old tech geezer I can be grumpy about sparkling things that the young ones love. 

The next blog entry will see the graphics card and SSD installation, and that, as they say, will be that.