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Testseek.com have collected 62 expert reviews of the SilverStone Fortress FT02 / FT02-USB3 and the average rating is 91%. Scroll down and see all reviews for SilverStone Fortress FT02 / FT02-USB3.
Award: Editor’s Choice February 2010
February 2010
 
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The editors liked

  • Quiet
  • New design
  • Dust filters
  • Hard drive cage
  • Classic good looks and unusual stance
  • Excellent cooling performance
  • Topnotch fit and finish
  • Roomy
  • Convenient interior
  • Fan speed control
  • Hotswap drive feature
  • 2.5inch drive adapter
  • Numerous configuration options
  • Watercoolingfriendly features
  • Innovative
  • Unique design brings significant cooling benefits
  • Sleek appearance refreshing among the glut of "extreme" and "military" styled cases
  • Room forfive 5.25" devices andfive 3.5" devices
  • Excellent build quality and quiet operation
  • Integrated fan controllers
  • Stunning build quality
  • Design
  • Rotated-board design dissipates heat vertically
  • Dampening panels
  • Large fans keep components quiet
  • Fantastic build quality
  • And excellent features
  • The motherboard tray is turned by 90 degrees for optimum air circulation that will prevent heat pockets from being created between expansion cards
  • Massive 180mm fans for excellent air circulation
  • Acoustic foam dampening for lowering the overall noise inside the system
  • Access hole for easy cooler installation on the CPU that requires a back-p
  • Attractive
  • Aluminum unibody chassis
  • Steel body
  • Five slideout trays
  • Acoustic padding.
  • Very well thought out design
  • Professional and clean look
  • Brushed metal silver finish
  • Outstanding build quality
  • Cable management
  • Quiet operation
  • Toolless installation of drives
  • 90 Degree motherboard rotation

The editors didn't like

  • Expensive
  • Spartan front panel I/O
  • Potential monitor cable issue
  • Heavy
  • Not much room for cables behind the motherboard
  • Case design limits utility of the 7th slot...and there really should be 8!
  • Longer cables required both internally an externally
  • Smooth exterior makes the case difficult to move
  • Mismatched colors and textures slightly compromise case appearance
  • Huge and pricey
  • Flimsy plastic in two key places
  • Power
  • Reset buttons too easy to press
  • I would have loved to see thumbscrews for the expansion slots.
  • Tophanging power supply makes us uneasy
  • Nearly the size of a fulltower
  • Expensive.
  • Price
  • $220 Shipping You get what you pay for

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  Published: 2013-05-01, review by: hothardware.com

  • Abstract:  If you love building computers, you probably appreciate a good case or chassis. While there are plenty of excellent products available for a song, there’s also an upper echelon of models that cost quite a bit and offer all the premiere features you cou...

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  Published: 2012-12-27, Author: Thomas , review by: tomshardware.com

  • Abstract:  Part three of our quest for quiet gaming brings us three final enclosures from Lian Li, Nanoxia, and SilverStone. Have we finally found the perfect product to silence a noisy graphics card? We'll find out by comparing all nine contenders in today's piece....

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  Published: 2012-03-25, review by: silentpcreview.com

  • Though it sports the same design as it did two years ago, today's SilverStone Fortress FT02 remains one of the best performing towers we've tested, and it is almost certainly the quietest for housing a high power system. It's a very deep case due to t...

 
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  Published: 2011-08-15, review by: anandtech.com

  • The real grudge match here winds up being between the SilverStone Fortress FT02 and the Thermaltake Level 10 GT. In most metrics the Level 10 GT is a slightly better performer, but it's also a newer case, and depending on your perspective, it may not be t...

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  Published: 2010-08-22, review by: insidehw.com

  • Abstract:  What do you get when you mix two popular enclosure models by Silverstone, namely Temijin TJ07 and Raven RV01? A new series called “Fortress”. All enclosures in the family have taken the very best out of their predecessors. The Temijin model provided th...

 
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  Published: 2010-08-12, review by: Bit-Tech.net

  • Whether you opt for the pimped-out limited edition, or wait for the standard FT02 to be upgraded, though, is probably going to be down to the size of your wallet. All we can say is that this is one of the best-looking cases we've seen and we don't thin...

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  Published: 2010-08-04, review by: benchmarkreviews.com

  • Innovative, unique design brings significant cooling benefits, Sleek appearance refreshing among the glut of "extreme" and "military" styled cases, Room forfive 5.25" devices andfive 3.5" devices, Excellent build quality and quiet operation, Integrated fan controllers,
  • Not much room for cables behind the motherboard, Case design limits utility of the 7th slot...and there really should be 8!, Longer cables required both internally an externally, Smooth exterior makes the case difficult to move, Mismatched colors and textures slightly compromise case appearance
  • The performance of this case— specifically, its cooling ability— was excellent, as is its quietness. In 2007 I had a system with twin NVIDIA 280GTX cards; it was quite noisy under load (i.e. playing Crysis), but at the time I just accepted that as an ...

 
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  Published: 2010-07-22, review by: fudzilla.com

  • After four hours of assembly, wire management and some final adjustments, the aesthetic value of our Fortress FT02 build came to meet even our most critical expectations. Not only did the unibody aluminium frame enhance its elegant exterior design ove...

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  Published: 2010-07-13, review by: tweaknews.net

  • Classic good looks and unusual stance, Excellent cooling performance, Topnotch fit and finish, Roomy, convenient interior, Fan speed control, Hotswap drive feature, 2.5inch drive adapter, Numerous configuration options, Watercoolingfriendly features
  • Expensive, Spartan front panel I/O, Potential monitor cable issue, Heavy
  • Not having reviewed a SilverStone case in the past, I was nevertheless aware of their reputation for quality and performance. Therefore, I had high expectations when the Fortress arrived here in the Tweaknews lab. To say that I was impressed with thi...

 
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  Published: 2010-06-21, review by: futurelooks.com

  • When we first saw the Raven two years ago, it wasn’t the appearance that intriguing to us, but that of of the internal chassis innovations. It was proof that we sometimes either love or hate something merely because of the way it looks. Since many us...

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