Tying Up the Loose Ends
As mentioned earlier, the HAF932 offers plenty of room under the back panel to hide all your cabling. There are plenty of holes and tie down areas to run zip ties and snug things down. Even if you do only the bare minimum, you can fake cable tidiness by just covering the mess with the sidepanell. On some cases, there simply isn’t enough room to fit the fat cables of today’s high end power supplies. It’s nice to see that Coolermaster thought about how much clearance would actually be necessary to pack in the cabling.
As a result of all the cable management space on the back of the motherboard tray, we were able to produce an extremely clean system build without much effort. The included cable ties came in very handy when it came time to make things look neat and tidy. As we know, clean cases can increase airflow which reduces system temperatures and that’s a good thing.
The only thing I was looking for after assembly was a way to fine tune the fan speed. There are unfortunately no fan speed controls so the only speed you get is on. We’ll definitely be paying attention to this in our noise level and temperature readings.
Finally, I decided to install the caster kit so I could roll this thing around instead of having to pick it up all the time. You can install this kit at any time and only requires one screw to remove the existing feet and four screws to attach each caster.
Once installed, they raise the bottom of the case up quite a bit. If you’re putting the case on carpet, you might want to install them anyway to increase air flow underneath the case. This is especially important if you choose to install the power supply at the top of the case and run two more optional 120mm fans. Wheel locks help you avoid having the case roll away.
As you can see, the HAF932 builds up into a fine looking machine. It’s almost menacing. The only thing I would have loved to have seen is maybe red LEDs in the top and side panel fans to give it a more uniform look, though I do appreciate that fact that not everyone likes having lights in their LEDs.
Anyway, let’s get some performance numbers and wrap this one up shall we?