BUILDING THE SYSTEM

As always the purpose of this section is not to build a functional system but rather to showcase what you can expect from the case at hand in terms of interior space.

As expected from a midi tower with enough room for E-ATX mainboards our "regular" ATX mainboard seems small.

Mounting even a 360mm radiator at the front is easy just as long as its thickness doesn't surpass 30-35mm.

Thanks to the offset offered by the removable radiator/fan bracket you can use thick radiators at the top as well (as long as your memory modules are not very tall).

Since the Dark Base 700 has room for up to 180mm tall CPU coolers you can also choose that route instead of a radiator for your CPU.

If you decide to mount the bundled drive cage in one of the 5 spots available on the mainboard tray you can still mount long graphics card like our GTX 590 (286mm long).

With room for PSU's up to 280mm long a normal one like the one we used leaves plenty of room for cable routing and such.