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Cooler Master HAF 932 Case Review
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Reviews Last Updated: September 8, 2008
Page: 2 of 6
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Cooler Master HAF 932 has a big 230-mm fan on its top rotating at 700 rpm. The problem, as mentioned, is that the fan blades measure only 190-mm, making this fan to actually have the same size of smaller fans, like the 200-mm fan used on the top panel from Antec Twelve Hundred. This fan is protected by a mesh and you can remove it to install small fans on its place (more about this later).

Cooler Master HAF 932 Case
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Figure 5: Top panel.

The top panel has a small storage compartment and the power and reset switches. The bottom of this storage compartment is protected by a rubber mat and removing this mat you have access to a hole that in theory can be used to fill tanks from water cooling devices installed on the top 5 ¼” bays. But frankly this hole is simply ridiculous, because for adding coolant liquid to a water cooler you need to first open the tank, which is obviously impossible to be done thru such small hole. Thus it would be far better if the whole bottom part of the storage compartment could be removed, so you would have access to the top part of water cooling solution installed on the top 5 ¼” bays, including the water tank.

Cooler Master HAF 932 Case
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Figure 6: Storage compartment and power and reset switches.

Cooler Master HAF 932 Case
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Figure 7: Storage compartment with its rubber mat removed.

Finally we have the rear panel on Figure 8. On this case the power supply is installed on the lower section of the case. This case has one 140-mm fan on its rear panel, rotating at 1,200 rpm. No speed control is available on this or on any other fan present on this case. On the upper part of the panel you can see two holes for an external water cooling solution. These holes are protected by a rubber cover, so you won’t need to break anything on your case to have them available. As you may have noticed, these holes are located on a frame covering where you can install a second power supply. If you decide to install a second power supply, you will need to remove the top 230-mm fan, but you will be still able to install a 120-mm fan on the top panel. We will talk more about this on next page. Unfortunatelly this case doesn't come with the necessary adaptor to connect pin 14 (green wire) from the two power supplies, which allows them to be turned on at the same time when you press the case power button.


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Figure 8: Rear panel.

This case also comes with a set of wheels, so you can replace the standard stands that come with the case with the feet if you want to be able to move you case around. This is a really nice option to have.

Cooler Master HAF 932 Case
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Figure 9: Wheels.

Let’s now see how HAF 932 looks like inside.

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