Thread: SilverStone Raven RV02

STI Despit radical design, the original SilverStone Raven RV01 rock Did Several Reasons for Our World, Most Notably poor cooling and questionable design. Then SilverStone refined the design, the far superior RV02 Producing seven months later. SilverStone Despit Claiming on the ITS website Raven RV02 That Supports E-ATX motherboards, we found That Actually it only has room for motherboards 12in-deep in other words, You Will not Be Able to fit a 13in E-ATX motherboard inside.



There's a mount for a 2.5in SSD (Which is hidden next to the side panel), and eight 5.25in bays, four of Which Are tool-free, while The Other Three Are Occupied by 3.5in drive modules. There's space for up to three hard disks, Which Are mounted in thick rubber grommets, so vibration Should not Be an issue. The most Striking aspect of Both the Raven RV02 and the similarly laid out SilverStone FT02R-W , Is That the motherboard has-been rotated 90 degrees clockwise. In Other Words, the I / O panel Rather Than the top faces the rear of the case. This Means That Are cables routed under the removable top panel and out the rear of the case.

To access the interior of the case, You Have to remove the top section (Requiring a bit of a yank to get it off) Revealing the side panels, one of Which has a large side window. This presents interesting Some Obstacles in the cooling department - to cool the CPU and graphics card Effectively, SilverStone had to find a way to make air flow Into the case from the bottom and out of the top. With just one 180mm intake fan to do the job in the original Raven, it wasn't very good at cooling. However, the Raven RV02 includes three 180mm intake fans Nearly The Entire That stretch length of the case and draw in air through to large vented base that's raised off the ground to allow air to enter the case.