Assembly

Installing the motherboard is straightforward using the pre-installed spacers and supplied screws. The opening on the motherboard tray works great for the BTF connectors and there is still a bit of clearance at the bottom of the chassis to allow for easy cable management if you are using a class board instead. The grommets at the top work fine too, but do actually feel a little overkill at this point.


Adding the bulky and long GPU is no issue either, with plenty of clearance. Our GeForce RTX 4080 still leaves enough room for any potential liquid cooling you may want to install in the front and the GPU support bracket can also be placed in a position that does not interfere with its fans. The GPU bracket was originally designed for cases with 7 or 8 expansion slots, so it is actually way too tall for the SETA H2M. SilverStone could have easily made this shorter, and we hope they will if this body will ever be used for a chassis that sports a glass side panel.


Adding a drive to the large mounting plate is the same, no matter its size. SilverStone includes the right number of special screws so that you may install either all three 2.5" drives or that one 3.5" unit. Once in place, the whole plate can be put back into the case easily, even if the whole system is already assembled.


As expected, for those opting to use the plastic tray, it is simply the act of sliding the drive in until it snaps into place. Plastic clips hold the drive down, no matter how thin it is, which is important for these types of trays.


The Cage is a bit of an interesting contraption. There is an interior wall to fit the width of 3.5" drives. Instead of that approach, SilverStone could have made the whole cage smaller and made that interior wall an outside one of the whole cage. This would have also resulted in some additional clearance for the PSU bay. Adding a 2.5" drive to this done by using classic screws.


If you want to install a 3.5" drive instead, you first have to attach two special screws on the right side of the drive, then slide it into the cage until it drops into the groves for these screws. Only then can you use classic screws on the left side to secure the drive. This drop-in mechanic may be need for the bottom drive to clear the thumb screw, but that could have easily been solved by not making that screw captive. We may be missing a bit of context here, but all this feels unnecessarily complicated when SilverStone could have provided a simple cage and still offered the same amount of storage flexibility.


Installing the 160 mm long Pure Power 12 M PSU is a fairly tight fit, even with the HD cage at the position closest to the front of the chassis. But, considering that SilverStone advertises 170 mm, the assumption is that this is meant to include the connectors of modular units, meaning we are maxing things out here.


The 360 mm AIO in the ceiling fits after sliding the rear fan down to make room and angling the radiator just enough to clear the case edges on the sides and the GPU support bracket. We managed to find an excellent way to route the cables out of sight completely, so that three is no mess to concern yourself with. Thanks to the offset, you still have access to the connectors at the top edge of your motherboard as well.


With everything installed, the SilverStone SETA H2M interior looks flawless due to the fact that we are using a BTF motherboard and thanks to the opening in the shroud to route the power cable for the GPU. Those using a classic Micro-ATX board will also be able to route cables nicely and tightly out of view, so those results should look as great as they can. On the backside, things are a bit trickier. We manged to route the majority of wires down the central trench. We could have routed the CPU power cable along the bottom edge, but that would have made it a bit harder to get to the BTF connectors at that part of the motherboard. One issue is that there is no good way to cable manage the cables from the front wires. While we found a route for the fan in the top, there was no good solution for the bottom one. On top of that, SilverStone did not put any hooks for zip ties above the grommets, which could have been a great place to secure the fan cables to and at the same time minimize these wires blocking the BTF connections.

Finished Looks

Putting the side panels back unto the filled system was a breeze, even with the bulk of the BTF cable management. You can see a nice glow from the ARGB elements shimmering through the fine mesh areas of the case and having those embedded into the body of the case does make for a very clean look overall. This clean design will surely appease ea lot of different audiences. The power button lights up in a nice white color as soon as the system is turned on.


From the front, you can also see a bit of RGB glow, which bodes well for airflow and in the rear, everything is where you would expect to see it. The hooks on the left side will line up well with any wires which you can then run down the side along the back I/O panel and join up with the PSU cable.


Both sides of the SilverStone SETA H2M look identical, and you can see the light gray housing of the SSD though one and the GPU heatsink fins through the other.