Glad I'm not the only one! When he said he started building custom PC's 10 years ago that really made me feel old. I remember before they sold unlocked processors, my buddy and I using window defroster strip repair paint to jump the bridges on and processors to unlock them and then trial and error adjusting voltages and timing in BIOS. This was also before they had dedicated overclocking settings in bios
Friend of mine gave us his old HAF case and we later built a gaming in it as a gift for one of our younger relatives. Even 10+ years later, this case holds up very well
yeah i use an haf 912 for my pc. good airflow, 5.25 bays for optical drives and add-on cards, fits my 3080 with room to spare for future upgrades, i like it i added my modern deepcool rgb fans and it looks pretty good. massive upgrade over my diypc suffercation box got it for free too
I bought this for Christmas for myself in 2011, It still sits with a 2700k and dual HD 7970's. The side panel cooling was awsome for SLI/Crossfire builds. Nephew still uses it to play GTA V.
I am still using the same Cooler Master HAF 922 with three 200mm fans that housed my Intel i5 3570K. Still fires up my i7 14700K & RTX 4070 Ti Super every push of the power on button.
Still using mine! 3 builds with it, my dad bought it in 2011 because his older pc couldnt handle battlefield 3 so he decided to spend 3000 euros in a high end pc build. When he stopped playing computer games in 2018 i stole the case and reused it and now it's like a relic to me haha
@@wolfofinsanity7882 Retrofitting upGrading From a AMD Quad core Athlon from 2003 bought from Fries while doing Network College. Software cost $3000 for Server windows, linux was just starting Distro's and Linux Journal just started. Still use the old style tube lights (Blue) mini neons & everything still works till 2015 hit by lightning while living an Apartment. retrofit with A B550 MSI board & AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 4600 as a Linux file server now that MSServer is $20 for standard.
PC builders didn't start caring about airflow in the last few years; we cared about it a lot 10-12 years ago. When see-though side panels, RGB, and fancy front panels became all the rage, efficient airflow got pushed aside. There are still lots of builders who put more emphasis on aesthetics than performance.
@@philmcruch In those days, lots of cases had a spot for a fan, typically mounted as an intake, on the now glass side below the GPU. It wasn't the prettiest way to create airflow, but it worked.
I miss older PC cases. They were awesome! The HAF case was very cool! I didn't ever get one, but I did have a Cooler Master Elite 430. It had a lot of airflow and a nice big window on the side.
1:49 IEEE 1394 is the standard name, but it's usually referred to as a Firewire port. Mostly developed by Sony, Apple, Panasonic, and Philips. It was a high speed connector. The average person would mostly find it on cameras and Apple computers, but other devices used it as well. It was the predecessor to Thunderbolt and was mostly used in the mid 90s and 2000s.
I love the HAF cases. I bought my HAF 922 in 2011 and still use it as my main computer. I also built in the HAF Stacker 915F mini ITX case in 2015 but the 922 is my favorite. The guts of my PC have changed multiple times over the years but the 922 has been in use every day since 2011
My dad still uses his, only 1 fan failure, but 230mm fans are hard to find. Oddly enough, they were ahead of the game with behind the motherboard tray cable management. He's got a 7800x3d and 7900xt system in it :D
I brought the first iteration HAF 932 back circa 2010, when it came with the grey internals and after watching a TH-cam video, I completely dissemble mine and sprayed it all black. Cue the later model you have which came black as standard. I am still rocking the case today and doubt I will ever buy another case. It has had about five complete upgrade builds over the years, with the latest supporting my 12700K build. Doing music & video production back in the days, meant having a ton of hard drives and this case was the ideal candidate, especially in terms of cable management. It also made for, one of the quietest cases you could run. Like someone else commented, I'll probably die before I get rid of this case--I love it so much.
First premium case I bought was the XB Evo, a part of me loved that case design, but was getting some QoL issues with it as we saw a shift in part priority in more recent years. GPU length would be the big problem outside of founder edition cards, and that isn’t considering being limited to an Air Cooler for hotter CPUs.
I have 3 of them and love em ,,and modified the side panel to a glass view and a cover for the power supply..the large fans are 200mm …. But thank you for sharing this case !!!❤❤
I still love the look of my NZXT Phantom 410 and I do miss those days where cases werent just boxes with an mesh front like my fractal pop which I currently use.
I'm still using my HAF 932 case. The non-advanced version. What's the difference? Silver interior. No USB3. That's it. The port on the front is IEEE 1394 a.k.a. FireWire. One of the 200mm fans (the one with LEDs) died, but the other still works. The complaints you had about building in this case are ones I also have. Right down to the bowing of the backside panel. When I finally got a modular power supply I thought that issue would be solved. I was wrong. Great video, Greg! My current specs, for those who are interested: ASUS TUF Gaming B650-Plus Wifi (I wish It wasn't but it was all I could get.) AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3070ti "OC" (Pandemic was wild times.) T-Force Vulcan DDR5 6000 MT/s (CL38 sadly) Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 280mm. Jankily mounted to the top of the case, as it only supports 120mm increments up to 360. Solidly mounted, just not supported. Corsair HX850i 80+ platinum PSU
I had the original HAF-932, predating the USB3.0, when I moved from Canada to the US. I remember it coming with wheels, which were crushed under the weight of the case... I had mine loaded with a number of 230MM fans and the piece in front that comes off is the same size as a bounce sheet, which makes a nice smelling dust filter. I miss it, I gave it to a former coworker/Manager.
Cable management wasn't an issue with these cases because you didn't have a big window in the side. Cable management simply didn't matter as long as they got where they should and didn't fall into a fan stopping it from spinning. Also the 5.25" drive bays were excellent for adding HDD drive bays that allowed you to hot swap drives if necessary. With a RAID controller they were excellent. There even were drive bays that had integrated RAID controllers. I had one installed in a server at work. It automatically set the two drives in it up as a R1 array. Swap out a drive and take it home and you had a complete backup of the server. There were a lot of things that made cases like this great. Looks weren't one of them but people didn't really care about that.
Cool case. I look forward to your next build with a 14TB SSD included for bulk storage or backups 😁👍 U.2 NVMe could do it with the right M.2 adapters. Or you could use a modern HDD 😇 Pogo Pins are a thing for your side fan wireless fan power solution.
I had the Haf 932 for about a year and it was nice I but wanted something different and got an Antec 1200. Both were awesome cases. I sure don't miss all the cables and wires I had to deal with back then. I would spend hours just trying to make it look decent. Building today is so much easier. I love how sleek you can make a build look now days!
I had the pre cursor case to this case it was the HAF 932 but they didn't even bother painting the inside lol. Then my brother copied me a year later with the same case except his was painted inside. Kept that rig until 2019. Now I run a view 71.
I used to build in a HAF 912 adv. for a long time. That was a great Case at its time. Now i'm using the H500M filled with 140 (CASE) and 120mm(AiO PL360Flux 30th AE) Mobius ARGB Fans.
I'm still using the HAF X, this case's bigger sibling, and my love for it hasn't diminished at all. I will say you are spot on with describing modern systems (as of early '24) too. I have a new system that was built last year; it has no internal optical drive spaces due to technology moving away from optical media, and the RX 6800 XT fits snug at the front fans where all the hard drive bays WOULD be if the case was built like the HAF models. The HAF X does favor cable management a bit more as the back cover has a protrusion that allows for more space back there. My wires are a mess, and they all still fit fine.
I gave my HAF 932 to my buddy, with the last machine I built in it. I loved that case, but was bummed because I bought it just before the refresh that hit this case, and mine has a bare metal interior and I didn’t get the USB 3.0 add-on (I did have a third 200mm fan in the top though). I was so excited when I got it because that was like a dream case of mine. There were so many awesome builds with that case in all the PC gaming magazines. I had also had red cold cathode tubes hidden above and below the fan in the left panel and I had the on off and switches on the front so I could manually control it, and when I turned them on it looked like it was a forge or a furnace or something.
I literally just upgraded from that case last year. I still have it and plan to do another build in it. As for the fan on the door, I bought an extension cable and was able to the front and around to the MB as I had modded the doors to place them on hinges so that they swung open and did not have to be removed. Love that case, which they would make it again, just with usb c and such.
I had one of these cases and had a 2 bay reservoir with flow gauge for my water cooling loop. Had DVD, a 6 channel fan controller, and a couple of hot-swap drive trays so I could always upgrade my storage without ever having to open my case. I pulled out the internal hard drive slide trays so all the airflow from the giant front fan would get to the video card as well. You could change the giant side fan to 4x120mm fans as well. Pretty impressive case in it's day!
Oh man, I had that case for years only because of yhe space inside. I end up giving it for free and upgrading to the Corsair 7000D airflow. Such a good and solid case.
MY old case I had made it through 3 different CPU builds since I got it in 2006! It was a Thermaltake Armor Jr. I use it as a NAS system now. I loved that you could reconfigure the drive bays with the drive cage allowing for several mounting options.
Michigan here. Great to see an old school case build. I still use a Corsair Vengeance C70 case. Had three until 2021 but sold them as prebuilt gaming pc so my son could have money to get a 4090 gpu. Glad I kept one of the pc's though. Most all the usb ports no longer work so I mostly just use it for watching dvd's.
im still using my HAF 932 AMD edition, has the acrylic amd side panel instead of the fan, lots of holes on top of case to mount a 280 AIO, plus it has the caster wheels so instead of carrying the heavy case, i can just roll it around, removed all the mounting cages from the front to add 2 140mm fans, added dust filters who needs a new case when the case from 2009 still works
This was my first case. If i remember correctly this thing also had a gpu shroud. Solid build. pain in the ass to clean at times but to me it was a pretty legendary case.
haf 932, literally the lifelong pc case, since 2009 im still using it, first for a core 2 quad, later phenom x6, core i7 4790k now i9 11900k. Also with the same thermaltake 120mm x2 heatsink from 2010. Obviously not with the same fans, those died the last year (they lasted 13 years), but thank god noctua is still making 200 mm fans today. God, they made the things so reliable before.
Oh man the HAF series! I remember when I first saw the HAF X Nvidia edition 10-12 years ago and been wanting one ever since. It's probably one of my dream cases.
I was a huge fan of HAF cases back in the day! I had both the 932 and X. Both were great on airflow and very spacious! As you can see that 4070 fit in there without an issue, despite the locking mechanism. Loving these videos, Greg, keep them coming!
I bought a used Cooler Master Pro 5 case just before the Pandemic. Six fans: 3 front, 2 top, 1 back. Ended up using it to mine with a 3080 Ti and 3080. The system drew 1000 watts. The GPUs never exceeded 80°C. Great case for air flow.
I have one of those cases, it was an awesome case back in the day. Plenty of space to build in, but man was it big and heavy. The connection you had to look up is also known as firewire. It was used more in Apple computers back in the day. As far as that side case fan goes, I just added an extension for the fan power, so it no longer was a hassle to install and remove the side case panel.
What a throwback! We had our first custom workstation built in this for work. It was a beast for it's time (some hyperthreaded quadcore and a gt9800 maybe?). The air cooling was overdone to the max, with every grill populated. I remember dedicating a Saturday to clean it out one time. My lungs didn't appreciate it one bit😂 That job went south soon after, but I wouldn't mind building something in that case today. It is such a tank!
I ran the HAF X case for a good 10 years, before updating to a Meshify 2 XL about 3 years ago. So, estimated between 2010 - 2021, that I used the HAF X. It was big, heavy, and bulky, but it was also great to work with, and work in. HAF X at the time, was great for lots of fan space, and drive space, as I run a lot of old mechanical HDDs for bulk storage. Lots of toolless functionality too. Snapping in 5.25" and 3.5" bays with a push button mechanism, etc. Nice case in its era, imo. 🍻
I never had a HAF 932, but my current build, just completed last year, is in a monstrous Rosewill Thor V2 I've had NIB for years. I even have 5 of the 6 5.25 inch front bays occupied. The reason I picked this case was because of the 5.25 inch bay. I needed to include a blu-ray drive, multi card reader, and a HDD dock.
I love this case, especially as you filled the front with the bluray drive and hub. Replaying Fallout 4 at the moment and this just feels right for that time. Sweet
My original intel i7-940 build with crossfired 5850's was built in this case. I still have that build, its kind of awesome to see you looking at this old case
Ayy the case I used for my first PC build at 13. I miss my fridge 🥲 I actually built my new PC in a CoolerMaster H500 cause of this case. And cause the airflow in my Phanteks P500 sucked 🙃
I've had this case since it came out and it's seen me through five separate builds. This latest build will probably be its last due to its immense size and smaller living area, but it's been a true workhorse.
I still have my old Gigabyte case from 2k1. Barely any airflow, no cable management area and no 2.5” bays. Radeon 6870 takes up all the available space. Just nostalgic.
Still using a CM Centurion 590 (slightly older than the HAF series), with some mods planned for the future - slightly larger PSU cable management hole at the bottom, adding an actual fan mounting rail for 3x 120mm to the front, MAYBE remove the 5.25" rack (the case only has 9x 5.25" slots, 3.5" drives had to be installed with a HDD cage), and adding a metal sheet next to the motherboard tray for hiding some of the extra cables. Honestly, these cases, despite being heavy and bulky, the cable management issues, and lack of compatibility with some radiators - mine can't even house a 240 or 280 radiator on top, let alone on the front, but it does have the grommets to route the tubes in and out of the case - they're still amazing to use for a build. Plenty of room, good airflow (no air filters, but that can be fixed with some DIY), and a lot of room for improvement if you don't mind doing some mods.
I still love and use that case as my main PC case to this day!! It's a beast, tough as nails, with enough room for anything you want to put into it and great cooling stock. But all of that plastic stuff became brittle and broke off, like yours did. Just order replacement parts for all of that. Great Video!
I have a Haf 932 and a Haf X under my desk right now. Never had any regrets about the purchase, only satisfaction. Got a new "modern" case for my server: it bends if you look at it badly.
my old rig that I changed last september was still rocking a CoolerMaster N300 from 10 years ago ! Never had thermal problems, but the fans bearings did suffer a bit over the years
My dad still uses a Cooler Master Haf X. It comes with their "X Dock" hot swap bay. Anyone remember those? Well, one of his sata SSDs was plugged into it. The board died, and thankfully Cooler Master made it easy to take out. The SSD was fine.
Thanks for this video topic. I built my work rig into a very similar case of the same maker. This is my 4th build in this case now and am totally happy with it. Almost identical to this actually. As a working Chemical Plant / power plant / refinery first start commissioning engineer going on 40+ years, MY 5.25 inch drives carry dozens of plant models for future references, as well as the "gold finger powered fan connectors". As you suggest a very good way to get this all to work and get into. I am running a Z590 ASRock motherboard with as many pcie slots as I could imagine needing. As you said, lots of usb 2 history in this. So one slot is to provide usb 3 headers to power faster file transfers. I also have several M.2 slots on the mother board as well as a dual M.2 expansion card in one of the pcie slots. Old school hard disks and faster digital storage lets me USE the fast storage and SAVE on the slow storage. Still a struggle with my traveling rig, a MSI gaming laptop with gen 5 level M.2 support and a 2tn drive in that. One problem with old blending to new here... Making a sync'd laptop from the old Cooler Master box still is an overnight transfer due to USB speeds being what the old box gives... Laptop going to the Old cooler master is much faster at least on the trip home from a completed job. But totally necessary. Considering a final upgrade on the desktop, going away from the big spinning disks... Need to find out how much storage in M.2 format it will take. Old Cooler Master serves as a semi-server sporting 7 physical disks in it... Hard to put all that away... Love your series, and like others, Love fix or flop... keep it up
I have the original HAF932, use it every day and it is mint. I have all the original parts it came with, even the box it came in. It makes a statement for sure with no need for all that rgb.
I LOVE IT! I have the HAF+ and got it for only $10.00! I absolutely love these cases because you can build a "Super Server"! My chassis supports up to 6 3.5" Hard drives and 2 2.5" drives. if I use the "Piggyback" adapters for the 2.5" Drives (adapter support 2 drives) in the 3.5" bays, I can double my hard drive capacity in the tower.... I absolutely miss these towers being available.... I even have a 4 2.5" removable drive bay in one of the 5.25" bays. so I can do a total of 18 hard drives if I wanted to.... an absolute Beast of a chassis when it comes to a custom build....
Haha Greg, this is sweet! I have a Coolermaster HAF X in box fully mint that I still sometimes break out and use to this day! They really are awesome beasts of cases!
I got one of these brand new when they were new, used it up until I got a used system in a Corsair 760t. Still using the 760t today, but still have the HAF 932, along with a HAF X and a HAF 915.
Thanks for posting this video; I have been considering reusing my HAF 932 for a newer build. I bought mine in 2009, and it came with three 200mm fans. Nice! However, the lack of cable space between the motherboard and the removable back panel was already an issue for me in 2009.
A product of its time. I had this case on my first custom PC in 2010. No dust filters, way too large, expensive a side fan I broke because opening the side caused it to rip a pin out of the socket. I'm pretty sure my case of today could fit inside the HAF 932.
I have a HAF 932 with a i9-10900k, Aorus Z490 Ultra, 64 GB DDR4 RAM from Corsair, ROG 1000W PSU, EVGA RTX 3080, 2 2TB m.2 drives, 1 4TB SSD and 1 6TB HDD. I added a blu ray drive, replaced the USB 2.0 with a Kingwin 7 USB hub in the front along with a touch screen fan controller and a 2.5 inch card reader in the slot that I replaced those two USB 2.0 ports from. I replaced all the fans with 2 140 mm fan on the front intake and rear exhaust in addition to adding 4 120 mm Corsair RGB fans to the side panel. I also have a push-pull RGB AIO on the top. I also added another 120 mm Noctua fan on the bottom of the case next to the PSU to add upward intake. There is also a plastic component covering the drive bays towards the GPU which contains a 120 mm fan screw holes that came with it but is too big for modern GPUs. I modified this plastic component to only cover the fan so it won’t extend over the motherboard and added a 120 mm 3000 rpm Noctua fan on the inside facing the GPU mounted to the drive bay rack. I have 12 fans total. Internal components also include an RGB header, and two NZXT usb headers. I also found magnetic dust filters specifically for this case from a South African company on eBay which work really well to mitigate dust. As someone who likes RGB but doesn’t necessarily want a giant glass window on my PC, this case is the best and provides enough room for a computer that can do more than only gaming. I plan to add another SSD at some point. There are also videos out there of people replacing the front AIO to more accommodate modern ports. Much more can be done with this case.
Thermaltake Level 10 GT has the contact fan on the side panel you mention. I still use it today, although I get often vibration noise from the hot swappable hdd bays. I love the old school design. Plenty of airflow and expandability.
I had this case with custom watercooling and amd crossfire. Loved it. I believe coolermaster or some after market sellers had a full acrylic side panel option.
I still have my HAF 922 which was a little less fancy, though the front I/O only had 2 USB ports they were 3.0. The PCIe slots were held in place by chunky thumb screws which was nice. I had a disc tray in the bays, but I hadn't used it in years. If I need one now I have a cheap USB disc tray I can plug in temporarily. And yeah, the worst thing for cleaning was the side fans and getting those cables tucked in neatly without getting caught in said side fans lol. I loved that case. But eventually I needed something smaller and got a Musetex with a glass panel to enjoy my LEDs inside lol. My old 922 is sitting in the corner with a 1050ti and FX-8350 in it that I used to teach my nephew how to assemble a PC.
I had one of these cases. Loved it! It sadly the case broke and had to toss it out. I wish i still had it. I still love full large towers with 5.25 bays
Always loved massive cases such as these. Not the most practical, but sure did make your PC far more grand. One stupidly over the top case from that era which I still have today is the Lian-Li PC-D8000 which is the ultimate DIY NAS box. Built in support for 20 hard drives, and modders made customisations to increase that number up to 50 or more internal drives!
I have one of these. I got it from a guy still new in the box. It's a green Nvidia special edition version. It's huge and now days pretty goofy but boy is it high performance still today. Mine came with a very beefy GPU sag bracket that also has another fan mounted to it! I don't use that case anymore but at 1 time it was the best of the best.
I'm still using a Thermaltake Core V31 from 2015. It works perfectly and has USB 3.0 ports and a reset button. The thing that irked me was that it didn't have a PSU shroud, so I went to Home Depot and bought a piece of thick brushed aluminum and made a custom shroud. And in the back of the case I used some mesh and to cover up the part where you can see the back wiring. It looks very professional and brought an old case into the modern times. Too bad is has acrylic though.
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I must be old I knew that was a firewire port. Shocked you didn't know
FireWire 400 if I remember right
Glad I'm not the only one! When he said he started building custom PC's 10 years ago that really made me feel old. I remember before they sold unlocked processors, my buddy and I using window defroster strip repair paint to jump the bridges on and processors to unlock them and then trial and error adjusting voltages and timing in BIOS. This was also before they had dedicated overclocking settings in bios
My Corsair 600T has one of those archaic ports. And a physical fan speed controller built in, with no screen or rgb off the side.
ditto. I had to come to the comments to see how many old guys like me immediately recognized it as a Firewire 1394
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Friend of mine gave us his old HAF case and we later built a gaming in it as a gift for one of our younger relatives. Even 10+ years later, this case holds up very well
yeah i use an haf 912 for my pc. good airflow, 5.25 bays for optical drives and add-on cards, fits my 3080 with room to spare for future upgrades, i like it
i added my modern deepcool rgb fans and it looks pretty good. massive upgrade over my diypc suffercation box
got it for free too
I bought this for Christmas for myself in 2011, It still sits with a 2700k and dual HD 7970's. The side panel cooling was awsome for SLI/Crossfire builds.
Nephew still uses it to play GTA V.
Also got one for myself for xmas around that time (plus or minus a year, not sure) and though it's not in use today, I still have it
I am still using the same Cooler Master HAF 922 with three 200mm fans that housed my Intel i5 3570K. Still fires up my i7 14700K & RTX 4070 Ti Super every push of the power on button.
The same is true here, and that is saying a lot since those are the stock fans that came with the case.
Me too😅😊😊😊😊😊😊
i still use my HAF 932.
back in the day we joked about HAF meaning "Huge As F**k" lol
I had a scout because I lan'd a lot. Glad these are left in the past.
Still using mine! 3 builds with it, my dad bought it in 2011 because his older pc couldnt handle battlefield 3 so he decided to spend 3000 euros in a high end pc build.
When he stopped playing computer games in 2018 i stole the case and reused it and now it's like a relic to me haha
@@wolfofinsanity7882 Retrofitting upGrading From a AMD Quad core Athlon from 2003 bought from Fries while doing Network College. Software cost $3000 for Server windows, linux was just starting Distro's and Linux Journal just started. Still use the old style tube lights (Blue) mini neons & everything still works till 2015 hit by lightning while living an Apartment. retrofit with A B550 MSI board & AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 4600 as a Linux file server now that MSServer is $20 for standard.
I bought this case brand new 13 years ago, and I still use it. I rebuilt my pc six months ago, and it stays cooler than my son's newer pc!
Same I bought mine at MicroCenter in MN when I lived theere, still using it today. Never will buy another case.
I bought that case from fry's when it was introduced, still have it and it's running
Still using mine as well! just upgraded my ring and did a AIO in it, works great.
PC builders didn't start caring about airflow in the last few years; we cared about it a lot 10-12 years ago. When see-though side panels, RGB, and fancy front panels became all the rage, efficient airflow got pushed aside. There are still lots of builders who put more emphasis on aesthetics than performance.
Yeah back in this era clear side panels didnt sell as well because of the reduced airflow especially in SLI etc air builds (no aios back then)
@@philmcruch In those days, lots of cases had a spot for a fan, typically mounted as an intake, on the now glass side below the GPU. It wasn't the prettiest way to create airflow, but it worked.
I miss older PC cases. They were awesome! The HAF case was very cool! I didn't ever get one, but I did have a Cooler Master Elite 430. It had a lot of airflow and a nice big window on the side.
1:49 IEEE 1394 is the standard name, but it's usually referred to as a Firewire port. Mostly developed by Sony, Apple, Panasonic, and Philips. It was a high speed connector. The average person would mostly find it on cameras and Apple computers, but other devices used it as well. It was the predecessor to Thunderbolt and was mostly used in the mid 90s and 2000s.
Yeah I was shocked he didn't know this was a FireWire port!
@@TeddieBean We forget that Greg is essentially a whippersnapper! :D
@@TeddieBean Why would you be shocked he didn’t use products that required Firewire from 30+ years ago on his gaming PC as an infant?
I wonder if his motherboard even has a Firewire port on it.
It was also called iLink on some devices like cameras and DV equipment.
Passed this case down to my mom. Complete with lit up red venom face behind the front grills. Loved this case. Dust was an issue though lol.
Remove the dust filters. They just don't work.
I love the HAF cases. I bought my HAF 922 in 2011 and still use it as my main computer. I also built in the HAF Stacker 915F mini ITX case in 2015 but the 922 is my favorite. The guts of my PC have changed multiple times over the years but the 922 has been in use every day since 2011
same here
My dad still uses his, only 1 fan failure, but 230mm fans are hard to find.
Oddly enough, they were ahead of the game with behind the motherboard tray cable management.
He's got a 7800x3d and 7900xt system in it :D
I brought the first iteration HAF 932 back circa 2010, when it came with the grey internals and after watching a TH-cam video, I completely dissemble mine and sprayed it all black. Cue the later model you have which came black as standard.
I am still rocking the case today and doubt I will ever buy another case. It has had about five complete upgrade builds over the years, with the latest supporting my 12700K build.
Doing music & video production back in the days, meant having a ton of hard drives and this case was the ideal candidate, especially in terms of cable management. It also made for, one of the quietest cases you could run.
Like someone else commented, I'll probably die before I get rid of this case--I love it so much.
I literally just built a newer-ish computer into my old HAF 922 literally this past saturday for my friend. So this is just like a recap.
Literally???!!!
@@EricMason0321 literally. Lol
The CoolerMaster HAF 912 is my favourite retro box to build in. So much expandability, and a modern industrial aesthetic to it. Love it.
912 Lover here. Cheer.
@@k2In1 I have 3 HAF 912s. Love them.
@@eddiea3782 One 912 houses my workstation PC and I have one waiting to be built into. Can we start a HAF support group?
I still have my HAF X Case great cases
Had numerous iterations of the HAF series, my favorite was my HAF X Nvidia Edition
Me too
That was my first PC case too. It now belongs to my best friend. I built him a gaming PC from spare parts I had lying around
First premium case I bought was the XB Evo, a part of me loved that case design, but was getting some QoL issues with it as we saw a shift in part priority in more recent years.
GPU length would be the big problem outside of founder edition cards, and that isn’t considering being limited to an Air Cooler for hotter CPUs.
I'm still rocking my HAF-X!
I removed the lower drive cage to facilitate newer GPUs and improve airflow.
Still works amazingly well.
I have 3 of them and love em ,,and modified the side panel to a glass view and a cover for the power supply..the large fans are 200mm …. But thank you for sharing this case !!!❤❤
I loved my HAF X case from 2012. Had the opportunity to build in 3 of them between mine, friends and friends dad’s computer, All HAF X.
I still love the look of my NZXT Phantom 410 and I do miss those days where cases werent just boxes with an mesh front like my fractal pop which I currently use.
This was my case that I built my X58 platform in, awesome case, replaced the side fan with 4x 120 and had a fan controller in front.
Same here i7 950 rampage formula 3 mobo and 24 GB ram in glorious triple channel lol them where the days😂
My HAF 932's life began with an i7-920 and a GTX 285. Now it has an i9-7960x and an RTX 3080.
I still use my HAF932 for primary system. Survived so many iterations of upgrade. Best investment ever.
yeah modern cases lacking lots of 5.25 and 3.5 is the problem for me.
thats why i use an old case
I'm still using my HAF 932 case. The non-advanced version. What's the difference? Silver interior. No USB3. That's it. The port on the front is IEEE 1394 a.k.a. FireWire. One of the 200mm fans (the one with LEDs) died, but the other still works. The complaints you had about building in this case are ones I also have. Right down to the bowing of the backside panel. When I finally got a modular power supply I thought that issue would be solved. I was wrong. Great video, Greg!
My current specs, for those who are interested:
ASUS TUF Gaming B650-Plus Wifi (I wish It wasn't but it was all I could get.)
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU
ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3070ti "OC" (Pandemic was wild times.)
T-Force Vulcan DDR5 6000 MT/s (CL38 sadly)
Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 280mm. Jankily mounted to the top of the case, as it only supports 120mm increments up to 360. Solidly mounted, just not supported.
Corsair HX850i 80+ platinum PSU
I had the original HAF-932, predating the USB3.0, when I moved from Canada to the US. I remember it coming with wheels, which were crushed under the weight of the case... I had mine loaded with a number of 230MM fans and the piece in front that comes off is the same size as a bounce sheet, which makes a nice smelling dust filter. I miss it, I gave it to a former coworker/Manager.
Cable management wasn't an issue with these cases because you didn't have a big window in the side. Cable management simply didn't matter as long as they got where they should and didn't fall into a fan stopping it from spinning.
Also the 5.25" drive bays were excellent for adding HDD drive bays that allowed you to hot swap drives if necessary. With a RAID controller they were excellent. There even were drive bays that had integrated RAID controllers. I had one installed in a server at work. It automatically set the two drives in it up as a R1 array. Swap out a drive and take it home and you had a complete backup of the server.
There were a lot of things that made cases like this great. Looks weren't one of them but people didn't really care about that.
I still use this case and I am loving it.
I'm not a gamer but love the old school cases and systems, loving the channel & learning loads
Cool case. I look forward to your next build with a 14TB SSD included for bulk storage or backups 😁👍 U.2 NVMe could do it with the right M.2 adapters. Or you could use a modern HDD 😇 Pogo Pins are a thing for your side fan wireless fan power solution.
This brings me back. Cooler Master COSMOs, Antex 1200, P900 all brings back memories
I had the Haf 932 for about a year and it was nice I but wanted something different and got an Antec 1200. Both were awesome cases. I sure don't miss all the cables and wires I had to deal with back then. I would spend hours just trying to make it look decent. Building today is so much easier. I love how sleek you can make a build look now days!
I still have my HAF 922 Advanced from the Sandybridge days... currently houses a H97 and i7 4790 Setup... 🤩🤩
I had the pre cursor case to this case it was the HAF 932 but they didn't even bother painting the inside lol. Then my brother copied me a year later with the same case except his was painted inside. Kept that rig until 2019. Now I run a view 71.
got myself a HAF X Nvidia Edition, best case i've ever had. will never sell it.
I used to build in a HAF 912 adv. for a long time.
That was a great Case at its time.
Now i'm using the H500M filled with 140 (CASE) and 120mm(AiO PL360Flux 30th AE) Mobius ARGB Fans.
The HAF stacker concept was really cool as well, as a way to have multiple computers on 1 desk.
I'm still using the HAF X, this case's bigger sibling, and my love for it hasn't diminished at all. I will say you are spot on with describing modern systems (as of early '24) too. I have a new system that was built last year; it has no internal optical drive spaces due to technology moving away from optical media, and the RX 6800 XT fits snug at the front fans where all the hard drive bays WOULD be if the case was built like the HAF models. The HAF X does favor cable management a bit more as the back cover has a protrusion that allows for more space back there. My wires are a mess, and they all still fit fine.
I actually have a HAF case, it's a bit newer, no firewire, wider, and I think a bit shorter, and it's my daily druver, I love it so much.
I gave my HAF 932 to my buddy, with the last machine I built in it. I loved that case, but was bummed because I bought it just before the refresh that hit this case, and mine has a bare metal interior and I didn’t get the USB 3.0 add-on (I did have a third 200mm fan in the top though). I was so excited when I got it because that was like a dream case of mine. There were so many awesome builds with that case in all the PC gaming magazines. I had also had red cold cathode tubes hidden above and below the fan in the left panel and I had the on off and switches on the front so I could manually control it, and when I turned them on it looked like it was a forge or a furnace or something.
I literally just upgraded from that case last year. I still have it and plan to do another build in it. As for the fan on the door, I bought an extension cable and was able to the front and around to the MB as I had modded the doors to place them on hinges so that they swung open and did not have to be removed. Love that case, which they would make it again, just with usb c and such.
I had one of these cases and had a 2 bay reservoir with flow gauge for my water cooling loop. Had DVD, a 6 channel fan controller, and a couple of hot-swap drive trays so I could always upgrade my storage without ever having to open my case. I pulled out the internal hard drive slide trays so all the airflow from the giant front fan would get to the video card as well. You could change the giant side fan to 4x120mm fans as well. Pretty impressive case in it's day!
I own a HAF 932 AMD version since 2009, and still rocks, in red color is amazing !!!
Oh man, I had that case for years only because of yhe space inside. I end up giving it for free and upgrading to the Corsair 7000D airflow. Such a good and solid case.
I did have an old HAF case that was older than that one, it was before the USB 3. I sold it and have bin kicking myself ever since. I loved that case.
MY old case I had made it through 3 different CPU builds since I got it in 2006! It was a Thermaltake Armor Jr. I use it as a NAS system now. I loved that you could reconfigure the drive bays with the drive cage allowing for several mounting options.
Michigan here. Great to see an old school case build. I still use a Corsair Vengeance C70 case. Had three until 2021 but sold them as prebuilt gaming pc so my son could have money to get a 4090 gpu. Glad I kept one of the pc's though. Most all the usb ports no longer work so I mostly just use it for watching dvd's.
im still using my HAF 932 AMD edition, has the acrylic amd side panel instead of the fan, lots of holes on top of case to mount a 280 AIO, plus it has the caster wheels so instead of carrying the heavy case, i can just roll it around, removed all the mounting cages from the front to add 2 140mm fans, added dust filters
who needs a new case when the case from 2009 still works
My favorite part is that hub with the all those buttons and knobs, reminds me of my uncles huge old school cd player back in the day
I still own the HAF X, bought around 2011!!!! Coolermaster made a great case. Love that it has wheels and is a full tower.
This was my first case. If i remember correctly this thing also had a gpu shroud. Solid build. pain in the ass to clean at times but to me it was a pretty legendary case.
haf 932, literally the lifelong pc case, since 2009 im still using it, first for a core 2 quad, later phenom x6, core i7 4790k now i9 11900k. Also with the same thermaltake 120mm x2 heatsink from 2010. Obviously not with the same fans, those died the last year (they lasted 13 years), but thank god noctua is still making 200 mm fans today.
God, they made the things so reliable before.
i am still using this case . it has been a really good case ,held up well all the fans still going . bought it new at the time
Oh man the HAF series! I remember when I first saw the HAF X Nvidia edition 10-12 years ago and been wanting one ever since. It's probably one of my dream cases.
I was a huge fan of HAF cases back in the day! I had both the 932 and X. Both were great on airflow and very spacious! As you can see that 4070 fit in there without an issue, despite the locking mechanism. Loving these videos, Greg, keep them coming!
My CoolerMaster NR200 has a fan frame inside the lhs panel, they supply both a perforated one for airflow or glass for looks... that works.
I bought a used Cooler Master Pro 5 case just before the Pandemic. Six fans: 3 front, 2 top, 1 back. Ended up using it to mine with a 3080 Ti and 3080. The system drew 1000 watts. The GPUs never exceeded 80°C. Great case for air flow.
I stil have mine cooler master HAF 932, not the advance version. My very first computer case. Never gonna throw i away ever.
I have one of those cases, it was an awesome case back in the day. Plenty of space to build in, but man was it big and heavy. The connection you had to look up is also known as firewire. It was used more in Apple computers back in the day. As far as that side case fan goes, I just added an extension for the fan power, so it no longer was a hassle to install and remove the side case panel.
What a throwback! We had our first custom workstation built in this for work. It was a beast for it's time (some hyperthreaded quadcore and a gt9800 maybe?). The air cooling was overdone to the max, with every grill populated. I remember dedicating a Saturday to clean it out one time. My lungs didn't appreciate it one bit😂 That job went south soon after, but I wouldn't mind building something in that case today. It is such a tank!
I ran the HAF X case for a good 10 years, before updating to a Meshify 2 XL about 3 years ago. So, estimated between 2010 - 2021, that I used the HAF X.
It was big, heavy, and bulky, but it was also great to work with, and work in. HAF X at the time, was great for lots of fan space, and drive space, as I run a lot of old mechanical HDDs for bulk storage.
Lots of toolless functionality too. Snapping in 5.25" and 3.5" bays with a push button mechanism, etc.
Nice case in its era, imo. 🍻
The 932 and 922 are 2 of the best cases to build in. And if you remove the hdd bays, they have a ton of flexibility. The haf 700 line is a dream too.
I never had a HAF 932, but my current build, just completed last year, is in a monstrous Rosewill Thor V2 I've had NIB for years. I even have 5 of the 6 5.25 inch front bays occupied. The reason I picked this case was because of the 5.25 inch bay. I needed to include a blu-ray drive, multi card reader, and a HDD dock.
I love this case, especially as you filled the front with the bluray drive and hub. Replaying Fallout 4 at the moment and this just feels right for that time. Sweet
Greg, now build in an Antec Twelve Hundred! Fill the front with 3x 5.25 to 5x 3.5 cages and have a 20 drive NAS.
Used to have that case back in my wow wotlk days.. loved it
My original intel i7-940 build with crossfired 5850's was built in this case. I still have that build, its kind of awesome to see you looking at this old case
Ayy the case I used for my first PC build at 13. I miss my fridge 🥲
I actually built my new PC in a CoolerMaster H500 cause of this case. And cause the airflow in my Phanteks P500 sucked 🙃
I've had this case since it came out and it's seen me through five separate builds. This latest build will probably be its last due to its immense size and smaller living area, but it's been a true workhorse.
I still have my old Gigabyte case from 2k1. Barely any airflow, no cable management area and no 2.5” bays. Radeon 6870 takes up all the available space. Just nostalgic.
Still using a CM Centurion 590 (slightly older than the HAF series), with some mods planned for the future - slightly larger PSU cable management hole at the bottom, adding an actual fan mounting rail for 3x 120mm to the front, MAYBE remove the 5.25" rack (the case only has 9x 5.25" slots, 3.5" drives had to be installed with a HDD cage), and adding a metal sheet next to the motherboard tray for hiding some of the extra cables.
Honestly, these cases, despite being heavy and bulky, the cable management issues, and lack of compatibility with some radiators - mine can't even house a 240 or 280 radiator on top, let alone on the front, but it does have the grommets to route the tubes in and out of the case - they're still amazing to use for a build. Plenty of room, good airflow (no air filters, but that can be fixed with some DIY), and a lot of room for improvement if you don't mind doing some mods.
I still love and use that case as my main PC case to this day!! It's a beast, tough as nails, with enough room for anything you want to put into it and great cooling stock. But all of that plastic stuff became brittle and broke off, like yours did. Just order replacement parts for all of that. Great Video!
I have a Haf 932 and a Haf X under my desk right now.
Never had any regrets about the purchase, only satisfaction.
Got a new "modern" case for my server: it bends if you look at it badly.
my old rig that I changed last september was still rocking a CoolerMaster N300 from 10 years ago ! Never had thermal problems, but the fans bearings did suffer a bit over the years
currently in a CM Storm Enforcer case. 200mm intake front fan. 2 USB 2.0 and 2 USB 3.0 in front, tons of drive bays.
My dad still uses a Cooler Master Haf X. It comes with their "X Dock" hot swap bay. Anyone remember those? Well, one of his sata SSDs was plugged into it. The board died, and thankfully Cooler Master made it easy to take out. The SSD was fine.
Thanks for this video topic. I built my work rig into a very similar case of the same maker. This is my 4th build in this case now and am totally happy with it. Almost identical to this actually.
As a working Chemical Plant / power plant / refinery first start commissioning engineer going on 40+ years, MY 5.25 inch drives carry dozens of plant models for future references, as well as the "gold finger powered fan connectors". As you suggest a very good way to get this all to work and get into.
I am running a Z590 ASRock motherboard with as many pcie slots as I could imagine needing. As you said, lots of usb 2 history in this. So one slot is to provide usb 3 headers to power faster file transfers. I also have several M.2 slots on the mother board as well as a dual M.2 expansion card in one of the pcie slots. Old school hard disks and faster digital storage lets me USE the fast storage and SAVE on the slow storage.
Still a struggle with my traveling rig, a MSI gaming laptop with gen 5 level M.2 support and a 2tn drive in that.
One problem with old blending to new here... Making a sync'd laptop from the old Cooler Master box still is an overnight transfer due to USB speeds being what the old box gives... Laptop going to the Old cooler master is much faster at least on the trip home from a completed job. But totally necessary.
Considering a final upgrade on the desktop, going away from the big spinning disks... Need to find out how much storage in M.2 format it will take. Old Cooler Master serves as a semi-server sporting 7 physical disks in it... Hard to put all that away...
Love your series, and like others, Love fix or flop... keep it up
I still have this case i kept it because its the best. I love it. this one is a 2.0 model. its all black inside. the main is grey its first gen.
this is still my case and always will be, been using it for years
I have the original HAF932, use it every day and it is mint. I have all the original parts it came with, even the box it came in. It makes a statement for sure with no need for all that rgb.
I still have that exact case, it's just so heavy and tall, but you can't beat the amount of room!
I LOVE IT! I have the HAF+ and got it for only $10.00! I absolutely love these cases because you can build a "Super Server"! My chassis supports up to 6 3.5" Hard drives and 2 2.5" drives. if I use the "Piggyback" adapters for the 2.5" Drives (adapter support 2 drives) in the 3.5" bays, I can double my hard drive capacity in the tower.... I absolutely miss these towers being available.... I even have a 4 2.5" removable drive bay in one of the 5.25" bays. so I can do a total of 18 hard drives if I wanted to.... an absolute Beast of a chassis when it comes to a custom build....
Haha Greg, this is sweet! I have a Coolermaster HAF X in box fully mint that I still sometimes break out and use to this day! They really are awesome beasts of cases!
I got one of these brand new when they were new, used it up until I got a used system in a Corsair 760t. Still using the 760t today, but still have the HAF 932, along with a HAF X and a HAF 915.
Thanks for posting this video; I have been considering reusing my HAF 932 for a newer build. I bought mine in 2009, and it came with three 200mm fans. Nice! However, the lack of cable space between the motherboard and the removable back panel was already an issue for me in 2009.
Started my Zenith Extreme build in my HAF 932. Really excited to see how it comes out!
So much room for activities, great video as usual sir
A product of its time. I had this case on my first custom PC in 2010. No dust filters, way too large, expensive a side fan I broke because opening the side caused it to rip a pin out of the socket.
I'm pretty sure my case of today could fit inside the HAF 932.
I have that same case still to this day. Old iBuyPower prebuilt from 13 yrs ago. It’s massive.
I have a HAF 932 with a i9-10900k, Aorus Z490 Ultra, 64 GB DDR4 RAM from Corsair, ROG 1000W PSU, EVGA RTX 3080, 2 2TB m.2 drives, 1 4TB SSD and 1 6TB HDD.
I added a blu ray drive, replaced the USB 2.0 with a Kingwin 7 USB hub in the front along with a touch screen fan controller and a 2.5 inch card reader in the slot that I replaced those two USB 2.0 ports from.
I replaced all the fans with 2 140 mm fan on the front intake and rear exhaust in addition to adding 4 120 mm Corsair RGB fans to the side panel.
I also have a push-pull RGB AIO on the top. I also added another 120 mm Noctua fan on the bottom of the case next to the PSU to add upward intake.
There is also a plastic component covering the drive bays towards the GPU which contains a 120 mm fan screw holes that came with it but is too big for modern GPUs.
I modified this plastic component to only cover the fan so it won’t extend over the motherboard and added a 120 mm 3000 rpm Noctua fan on the inside facing the GPU mounted to the drive bay rack.
I have 12 fans total. Internal components also include an RGB header, and two NZXT usb headers.
I also found magnetic dust filters specifically for this case from a South African company on eBay which work really well to mitigate dust.
As someone who likes RGB but doesn’t necessarily want a giant glass window on my PC, this case is the best and provides enough room for a computer that can do more than only gaming.
I plan to add another SSD at some point. There are also videos out there of people replacing the front AIO to more accommodate modern ports.
Much more can be done with this case.
Thermaltake Level 10 GT has the contact fan on the side panel you mention.
I still use it today, although I get often vibration noise from the hot swappable hdd bays.
I love the old school design.
Plenty of airflow and expandability.
I had this case with custom watercooling and amd crossfire. Loved it. I believe coolermaster or some after market sellers had a full acrylic side panel option.
My PC still resides in this same case. still my all time favourite that Cooler Master ever made.
I still have my HAF 922 which was a little less fancy, though the front I/O only had 2 USB ports they were 3.0. The PCIe slots were held in place by chunky thumb screws which was nice. I had a disc tray in the bays, but I hadn't used it in years. If I need one now I have a cheap USB disc tray I can plug in temporarily. And yeah, the worst thing for cleaning was the side fans and getting those cables tucked in neatly without getting caught in said side fans lol.
I loved that case. But eventually I needed something smaller and got a Musetex with a glass panel to enjoy my LEDs inside lol. My old 922 is sitting in the corner with a 1050ti and FX-8350 in it that I used to teach my nephew how to assemble a PC.
It was a joy watching you doing things I've done many times in my life.. along with the side panel not going all the way in 😂 Cheers!
I literally have my Prox Mox server housed in one of these cases that I bought brand new in 2008. It is my fav case of all time.
I had one of these cases. Loved it! It sadly the case broke and had to toss it out. I wish i still had it. I still love full large towers with 5.25 bays
Always loved massive cases such as these. Not the most practical, but sure did make your PC far more grand. One stupidly over the top case from that era which I still have today is the Lian-Li PC-D8000 which is the ultimate DIY NAS box. Built in support for 20 hard drives, and modders made customisations to increase that number up to 50 or more internal drives!
I had this case for 10 years, she was very faithful and reliable
I have one of these. I got it from a guy still new in the box. It's a green Nvidia special edition version. It's huge and now days pretty goofy but boy is it high performance still today.
Mine came with a very beefy GPU sag bracket that also has another fan mounted to it! I don't use that case anymore but at 1 time it was the best of the best.
My first non- Antec case loved that case still in service with a 3770k bulid
Old cases are great for converting to sleeper cases. I've done a couple using a Dremel and by cutting bits out so modern components fit.
I'm still using a Thermaltake Core V31 from 2015. It works perfectly and has USB 3.0 ports and a reset button. The thing that irked me was that it didn't have a PSU shroud, so I went to Home Depot and bought a piece of thick brushed aluminum and made a custom shroud. And in the back of the case I used some mesh and to cover up the part where you can see the back wiring. It looks very professional and brought an old case into the modern times. Too bad is has acrylic though.