With a sturdy metal construction making up most of its 23.5 kilos of heft, the MPG Velox 300R Airflow PZ is as weighty as its title is lengthy. (We’ll name it“Velox 300R” from right here on out.) Its quite a few strengths embrace mud filters that cowl each air inlet, large 160mm ARGB consumption followers linked to a factory-installed controller/hub, and even a logo-emblazoned low-restriction faceplate that may in all probability assist make any mud that collects on the filter behind it barely much less noticeable because the PC waits for its subsequent cleansing. A light-weight tint on the 4mm-thick tempered glass facet panel makes the black 120mm exhaust fan more durable to identify towards the case’s black inside.
Mounted on 4 snaps and three information pins, the faceplate simply pulls away to entry the entrance panel’s plastic-framed nylon-sheet mud filter. Secured with three magnets on either side, the filter pulls simply away from the followers for cleansing.
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Although “front-panel” ports and buttons typically find yourself on the highest panel of contemporary instances, the Velox 300R’s placement is considerably uncommon in that it’s a bit farther away from the precise entrance of the case than on most instances. Lined up alongside its proper edge are an influence button with a power-indicator LED window, an LED mode button, a headset (headphone/microphone) combo jack, two USB 3.2 Sort-A ports, and a Gen 2×2 Sort-C port. Sadly, there’s no reset button or drive-activity mild.
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The rear panel options the one Velox 300R vents that aren’t coated in mud filters, although that’s okay; these ought to in all probability be considered as exhaust vents that circulation filtered air from these huge front-panel followers. We additionally see the ATX commonplace’s seven enlargement slots, a 120mm exhaust fan screwed onto slots that enable slightly vertical adjustment, an influence provide mount with two units of holes to permit inverted mounting, and two vertical vent sections operating up the ahead and rear parts of the best facet panel.
The expansion-slot panel is inset, which simplifies graphics card set up. (Briefly: There is no interference between the cardboard bracket and the clearance space above the screws, as there generally is with cheaper instances with non-inset panels.)
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A protracted mud filter that covers a lot of the backside panel slides out the again of the case from beneath the ability provide bay.
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The highest panel and two lengthy facet panel vents are every coated internally with a perforated metallic filter sheet, every of which makes use of magnetic tape round its periphery to stay to the metal panel.
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The Velox 300R’s high panel is designed to carry a 360mm-format radiator as much as 420mm lengthy. (The radiator may have round 57mm of clearance above the motherboard’s high edge.) The Velox 300R’s high panel additionally features a second set of mounting slots to allow three 140mm followers to be positioned there as a substitute.
From this angle, we are able to additionally see that the ability provide cowl has two 120mm fan mounts, that an adjustable card brace is hooked up barely ahead of the ability provide cowl, and {that a} detachable multi-purpose bracket is factory-mounted to the 120mm fan location on the entrance of the case’s backside panel. The bracket is drilled to carry a single 3.5-inch or 2.5-inch drive, in addition to quite a lot of open-loop liquid-cooling pump/reservoir combos.
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Just like the multifunction bracket that sits in entrance of it, the outer three-quarters of the ability provide cowl is detachable. That reality eased the set up and elimination of modular cables on our energy provide.
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The Velox 300R’s motherboard tray consists of a number of further pass-through holes designed to suit the connector areas of MSI’s Undertaking Zero motherboards, however they don’t seem to be excluded, in any manner we are able to see, from in any other case supporting its largest competitor’s rear-facing-connector design, Asus BTF. A facet mount that may maintain as much as three 120mm followers and/or 360mm-format radiators as much as 440mm lengthy is offset an inch behind the motherboard tray, so {that a} fan as much as 38mm thick might match behind an EATX motherboard if we add the size of the standoffs to that thickness. We wouldn’t name the Velox an EATX case, as a result of it has no mechanical assist to carry 13-inch-long boards, however some barely bigger-than-ATX boards will match with out requiring such helps.
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Behind the Velox 300R’s motherboard tray are its ARGB controller/fan hub and two drive trays. (Word that we additionally pulled the face panel off for our open case pictures.) The controller’s hub helps 4 PWM followers and 4 ARGB units.
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Eradicating the plastic plugs above and under the front-face 160mm manufacturing facility ARGB followers permits us to see that the fan rails operating up and down the face are additionally detachable. Had we additionally eliminated the factory-fitted 160mm followers themselves, we might have used the additional mounting holes you may see to maneuver the brackets inward to 140mm or 120mm fan spacing. The 480mm of house (top) behind that mount exceeds the size of any 420mm-format radiator we’ve seen, so you could possibly put a very huge radiator up entrance when you so need. That mentioned, you will in all probability wish to preserve these outsized followers in case you are air cooling; they’ve a nifty design, with an offset circle of blades inside a bigger circle
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The drive trays embrace one dual-2.5-inch tray with out 3.5-inch provisions and one with 3.5-inch provisions. Putting in a 3.5-inch drive fitted with vibration-damping grommets precludes the usage of any 2.5-inch drives within the second tray.
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