A Closer Look - Inside

To gain access to the interior of the HAF 922, simply unscrew the thumb screws and pull off the side panels. The interior layout looks very similar to that of the HAF 932, but there is naturally less expansion space available. The overall placement of all the major areas can be considered to be up to today's standards. The underside of the mainboard plate does not hold many surprises. Cooler Master has placed a large hole under the CPU area to make it easier to replace coolers without having to take out the entire mainboard. The edges of the tray have cutouts to tie your cables to. We will be using them in our review to show you how you can keep the interior of the HAF 922 clean.


The hard drive bays hold the same plastic trays we have seen in the HAF 932. These are simple, but quite effective as we will notice later on in the review. Above that are the five external drive bays. All of these have the button to lock the drives in place. This system was first introduced with the Cosmos and has been making its way down to the more affordable enclosures.


The rear bottom holds the power supply. The rear seems to look somewhat refined when compared to the HAF 932. Gone is the crude PSU bay, replaced with an intricate air vent with foam lining to reduce vibration. Above that are the mainboard expansion brackets. Cooler Master has also chosen to replace the plastic locking mechanism - which is woefully inadequate - with real thumb screws. Moving on up, the rear 120 mm fan is of the normal kind, with no LEDs. This unit blows hot air out the back of the chassis.


The I/O cables are of the standard variety, so you will not have to worry about any incompatibility with that precious mainboard of yours. The top 200 mm fan does not feature any LEDs either. Thanks to the space above the mainboard, this fan does not interfere with large CPU coolers.