Silverstone Temjin TJ05 Case - The Hinged Panel
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The Hindged Panel
You might be curious about that hinged metal panel you’ve seen in previous screen shots. I haven’t seen this on any other cases and it is a cool idea.
You can see that there are two sets of screw holes around each hole, one to attach a set of 80mm fans and one to attach a set of hard drives. In the center, there is a row of mysterious plastic pieces that can extend into the case. Let’s take a look at using this panel.
The plastic pieces are designed to hold oversized VGA and PCI cards in place. They only pull into the case a little ways, but that’s far enough. This video card is an X800GTO, so it doesn’t go as far back as a 7800GTX. With large video cards, this device keeps cards from moving around when the case is being transported or moved for whatever reason.
Here’s a good view of one side of the panel having a fan installed and the other with a hard drive attached. For the fan’s airflow, it would have been nice for Silverstone to saw out the metal frame that the fan has to pull the air through. Of course, this is a simple mod you can do, and the fans work very well like this anyway.
If you use the panel for 2 80mm fans, they will provide great airflow over the PCI card area, which is often ignored by the standard airflow. It keeps air from stagnating and heating up under your large video cards, which is a very good idea. Putting it on this metal panel instead of the window is also nice, because your side panel isn’t on a power cable “leash” this way.
If you use this for hard drives, it could give you space for 2 extra drives. Even better, it gives you options for changing the layout of the case and improving airflow.
If you look at the material of the hard drive cage (previous page), notice that it is pretty much a solid sheet of metal with some holes for air to flow through. And notice the position of the drive cage, right against the front intake fan. Most people wouldn’t be bothered since it still pushes noticeable amounts of air into the case. If you are very picky about airflow and want to turn the case into a wind tunnel, take out that drive bay out and mount your drives on this hinged panel. Silverstone was really good for making the drive bay removable and giving end users plenty of options on how to use the case.
With all of this installed and our video cards plugged into the screwless slots, I connected the 6 billion wires for the front panel temperature and fan controller to the motherboard. The case didn’t come with anything explaining how to connect the handful of wires, but Silverstone’s website has a PDF that explains it all well. I won’t bore you with the details of connecting evening (but you can read about them in Silverstone’s online manual). With everything else done, read on for final details on the front LCD screen and the case’s cooling performance.
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