Friday, January 31st 2020
DeepCool MATREXX 55 Mesh 4F Loses the Glass Facade for an Airy Mesh
One of the emerging trends with tempered glass front faces is the option to have a metal mesh front panel that serves as an airy intake, as more PC builders opt to install radiators there. The MATREXX 55 Mesh 4F from DeepCool follows this trend, and loses the prominent tempered glass front facade to a black mesh intake over the three 120 mm fan mounts. The rest of its design is identical to that of the original. A tinted tempered glass panel continues to dominate the left side. Behind it is a conventional horizontally-partitioned layout. The bottom compartment has room for two 3.5-inch drive bays, Two additional 2.5-inch drives can be mounted along the motherboard tray, which has room for graphics cards up to 37 cm in length, and CPU coolers up to 16.8 cm in height. DeepCool is including four 120 mm fans that have addressable RGB LED illumination; three of which are factory-fitted along the front intakes, and one at the rear exhaust. The company didn't reveal pricing.
21 Comments on DeepCool MATREXX 55 Mesh 4F Loses the Glass Facade for an Airy Mesh
..now if case makers would just drop glass and plexiglass side panels, or at least let us have solid panels with GPU vents that would be reaaaaal nice
and IMHO, the trick to keeping tempered glass panels clean is to A) invest in a box of cheap latex gloves, or B) the mfgr's could just put some kind of minimal width frame around them to use as a gripping surface......
Especially hopeless are aluminium cases. Lately with PC cases it doesn't really matter if case is steel or aluminium. Classic example Enthoo Elite (technically not solely aluminium) which empty weights 37.5kg!!! or InWIn928 24kg, etc, etc.
Neither is really optimal, is it. Mesh is the ultimate dust collector and not many mesh fronts allow for easy cleaning. I'll take Fractal's removable dust filters for front 100% over this cheap ass solution. This is 40 dollar budget case stuff, now being marketed as the next best thing. lol
Grill + removable filter. Take the damn hint, case designers.
Like so. Unhinge, one wipe with cloth, click back in, done. Best of both worlds. Heck you can even have good noise insulation in front of it.
Now, if you want next level... make the filter out of transparent material (plexi frame etc) and you can even use a glass panel in front...
Its not hard, took me all of this post to think up.
There are few cases that have screen and/or filters in the front, some case designers will never get it, even after GN and LTT harp on intake airflow, seems like forever now, they still dont listen.Swiffer Duster even.
I'm asking this because I haven't build a PC before and I'm looking forward to buy this case very soon.
In this instance, you can either:
A) Buy fan splitter cables that allow you to connect 2, 3 or 4 fans to one end and the other end plugs into 1 of your board's connectors, OR
B) Buy a fan controller/hub, that has the appropriate number of fan connectors, and plug all your fans into it...most hubs will have either a molex or sata connector to get it's power directly from your PSU instead of the mobo connectors, so that solves that issue, however, most of them still have maximums that you must NOT exceed....
Take care to check how much current each of the splitters or hub can supply, add up what each set of fan draws when connected all together, and then be sure NOT to exceed that amount of power.
Please ask whatever questions you may have, everyone here is glad to help !