Formed in 2006 with a mission to make premium power supplies and cooling solutions for your desktop PC, Exist Quiet! says it's Germany's tiptop PSU maker with a massive range covering the ATX, SFX and TFX course factors including models spanning from only 300w to 1200w.

The company has also put together a small-scale collection of impressive CPU air-coolers with latest being the $90 Dark Rock Pro 3. More recently, Be Placidity! has been working on a new project it calls "Silent Base of operations" with the Silent Base 800 beingness the company'due south offset figurer chassis.

Although this is Be Quiet!'s first case, information technology was designed over more a year entirely in-house at Federal republic of germany -- something the company is proud of. Be Quiet! non but applied what it learned about high-quality cooling and fan solutions in the past, information technology also brought in world renowned example experts.

When developing the Silent Base 800, the company says it emphaized function over grade with a goal of achieving the all-time cooling operation possible at ultra low noise levels while still offering aplenty space for high-terminate components.

Exist Quiet! says the internal structure and ultimately the exterior design of the case has evolved from this objective and, of course, we're here to come across how successful company's the engineers were at meeting those constraints.

Silent Base 800 External Design

Although nigh of the magic takes place inside the Silent Base 800, information technology'southward still sleek looking on the outside. Being German-made, we are not surprised to find a subtle all the same elegant pattern.

The Silent Base 800 comes in silver and black (what nosotros got for testing), orange and black or just black. Information technology weighs nine.3kg empty and measures 266 10 559 x 495mm.

The front is dominated past a big black panel that is dissever into 2 parts. Upwards top is a door without a handle. To open up information technology yous must grab it from the tiptop and pull it open up, which is done easily enough.

Holding the door closed are a pair of magnets embedded in rubber stoppers to eliminate vibration. The inside of the door is also lined with a racket absorbing foam.

Backside the door are three 5.25" external drive bays -- in that location are actually iv just the top bay is fake. The acme panel cannot be removed and there is nothing behind it.

Beneath the door is a larger console -- this one is removable and too lined with noise absorbing foam. Behind it is a big dual 120mm fan grit filter designed to go along the cases in-take fans dust costless.

The front panel has been decorated with mesh strips down either side, which are highlighted using a argent border. This gives an otherwise wearisome case a bit of flare.

Both the left and correct case doors are identical, and so there are no instance windows here and I don't believe a window will become an selection either because it wouldn't be ideal for a serenity case. Adding a case window would make lining the doors with noise absorbing foam somewhat pointless.

Be Quiet! tells us that the racket absorbing foam institute around the case is a newly adult sound­proofing material.

On the surface, the door panels might await rather banal simply there is a huge accent on cooling and noise operation. Inserted into the center of each door is a square plastic cover that can be used to command air-flow and operating volume. This foursquare can be raised out of the door to allow maximum air-flow or seated flush to block air-menses and any noise escaping.

The foursquare, like the case door, is lined with a racket absorbing foam. There is likewise a dust filter found behind the square so you tin install a 120mm fan into the side door if you wish.

The top panel too looks pretty bland, but once again in that location is a bit going on hither. Apart from housing an I/O panel which features 2 USB 2.0 ports, two USB 3.0 ports, a pair of audio jacks and a large foursquare power push, the top panel is designed so that heat can easily escape using an innovative fin design which is also meant to block sound waves and reflects them back into the instance.

Effectually back, the design is pretty standard for the most function. The power supply bracket is establish in the lesser of the case, while in that location are vii expansion slots above it, followed by the motherboard I/O slot. Adjacent to the I/O slot are 3 1" h2o-cooling access points and a 120mm exhaust fan.

The top and bottom of the rear panel feature large ventilation points, while in that location is a massive removable grit filter found at the bottom below the PSU subclass.

Underneath the Silent Base 800 there is no ventilation at all, just a solid base. However, the feet are interesting equally Be Quiet! has used what looks similar a pair of skis, which are detached out of the box so you have to clip them in.

In one case installed they look attractive and give the Silent Base 800 a footling flair. Each ski is meant to have two rubber pads only only ane of ours came with the pads while the other was missing them -- I assume this is just an issue with our early review sample.