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Silverstone SETA A1

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The Silverstone SETA A1 features a clean, gentle, aluminum front with a functional design and some embedded RGBs. With its clear window and choice of three different colors, the SETA A1 focuses on providing a stylish chassis to house your modern PC hardware components.

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Considering that you get 3 fans -200 mm fan x 2 included and a120 mm fan x 1 included; and a real Aluminium front, I think it's not bad value. I kinda like this case.
 
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I'm not a fan of any case that has the brand name on front, Silverstone, Thermaltake, Coolermaster, a small logo is fine but a name is annoying, its just me I'm sure.
 
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I don't get why Silverstone bothered to fit a pair of 200mm fans up front when the intake and dust filter for the front panel is clearly maxed out at a couple of 140mm fans.

Perhaps we'll see a different variant of this chassis soon, with a better front panel. As it stands right now, this front panel is a severe limitation of the otherwise awesome cooling potential of 2x200m intakes.
 
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Agree with Chrispy above, the 200mm fans are great but where Silverstone offers a sweet bottom PSU filter, the small'ish intake filter doing most of the work will need attention to keep buildup from having them working in negative pressure. Wonder the spec'son those 200 mm, and if they are optimized for inlet/suction.
 
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Chrispy_ said:
I don't get why Silverstone bothered to fit a pair of 200mm fans up front when the intake and dust filter for the front panel is clearly maxed out at a couple of 140mm fans.

Perhaps we'll see a different variant of this chassis soon, with a better front panel. As it stands right now, this front panel is a severe limitation of the otherwise awesome cooling potential of 2x200m intakes.
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200mm fans generally run slower and quieter than smaller fans for the same displacement.
Silverstone aren't know for performance cases, but rather, efficient, quiet cases with a recognizable Silverstone look.
 
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Nonsense: Raven/Fortress series, Redline series, Sugo, etc... They have some of the best performing cases in every market...
 
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I think it's a bit ironic that there's so much fan in the front but the design ends up starving them.

The front cover chokes the intake fans horribly.

Would it be possible to do the temperature tests without the front mounted? I'm really curious to know how much cooling performance is sacrificed on the alter of 'looks'.
 
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Two 140 mm for the front would be a better choice for airflow IMO. Almost all of the 200 mm are quiet yes, but don't move alot of air.
 
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gamefoo21 said:
I think it's a bit ironic that there's so much fan in the front but the design ends up starving them.

The front cover chokes the intake fans horribly.

Would it be possible to do the temperature tests without the front mounted? I'm really curious to know how much cooling performance is sacrificed on the alter of 'looks'.
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I suspect the case has been returned to Silverstone or shipped to the next reviewer but if TPU still has it, I'd love to see how much damage to the airflow that stupid intake design causes.

It's probably a moot point though, Silverstone have invested in the tooling for this underlying frame so we'll see more designs based on a pair of 200mm intake fans before long.
 
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