DAVEN FT305 Computer Case Swap Review 1.

0. For the past few years my computer was only a laptop and a Surface. In my college freshman year I used a PC for two years; at that time the CPU was a Phenom Black Edition x2, and I don't even remember what the graphics card was. It was the heyday of Windows 7, and the RAM was 4GB. With that computer I did hard graphics work. I think I spent about a month shooting FHD videos, editing them, applying effects, and encoding. That process is nothing but hard memories. That rendering wouldn't finish even running all day, and even the rendered results sometimes had misaligned video. After that I never did video work again. Because I judged the computer couldn't handle it. And because I felt video work is hard unless the computer is high-performance. To add, I think that PC used a Biostar ATX-M-size board, and at the time the top cooler on the case wasn't spinning and only the CPU cooler was, so exhaust wasn't done properly and I even failed at controlling the case's internal heat. I don't have many memories of using that case with the side panel closed. Almost all my memories are of just leaving it open.

After using this computer for two years, I went to the military. After returning to school from the military, I lived with a laptop and an iPad. I had the iPad for a while but sold it after about two years. The iPad's productivity was far too low. I didn't like that the system couldn't escape the limits of iOS and failed to adapt to many websites. And what I got next was a Surface, and since Windows runs properly on the Surface, it let me do the blog work I wanted comfortably.

Recently I used only the Surface I got after that and a Lenovo S410 laptop. I got and used the laptop when I returned as a college junior, and the Surface was one of the methods I thought up after debating whether to get a separate tablet. But these two devices also couldn't escape the limit of being 'mobile devices.' It was a time when high-performance gaming or rendering couldn't be dreamed of.

1. Then recently, with a friend's help, I got the chance to receive a 9400F. So after much debate, I separately bought a 1080ti. My friend offered to give me a 970, but I had two grudges, so to speak. One was that when I newly get a desktop, I want the graphics card to be very good; the other was that I'll definitely buy a case with good intake and exhaust so 'cooling' works well — those were the 'grudges.' So for a while I searched for cases and grasped the reality that mesh cases and tempered-glass cases had become the trend. While choosing a case like that, I was selected for this field test. The board I'd get along with the 9400f is an H310M board, so I don't think I need to explain it.
- Through a Quasarzone event, I got to do a field test of a DAVEN case. I'd never done a field test before. I was mostly just a customer who buys and uses things. It's not that I couldn't write reviews, but getting to the point of writing a review required a lot of thought. If it were a review written the way others do, I could do any number, but I wanted to put in higher-quality writing and information, and the feelings I honestly felt. So I'd never done the thing where they give you products on the premise of writing a review. So having this PC case selected by chance feels truly strange.

2. The case's specs

The case supports up to an ATX board and ATX power supply, and you can tell its size can sufficiently handle the length of the dual-fan 1080ti I have. If the mountable GPU size is 360, it's a size that can fit most triple-fan GPUs too. The CPU-cooler mounting height is 160MM, which tells you a very tall tower cooler will be a bit hard. For example, Noctua's dual-fan coolers would be tall. For now I'll use the stock 'Choco Pie' cooler, and when the Trinity comes I plan to additionally mount the Trinity.

1) The outer packaging box
- I'd wondered how cases containing tempered glass would be shipped, and it was secured in the form shown in the photo.

To prevent scratches it was wrapped in plastic like this, and the tempered glass was again wrapped in plastic with glass-protective film.

2) The case and components
- They bundled three cooling fans. And the thing that fills in the blank slots of the rear panel was provided in black. Not knowing what it's called, I'll just write 'the thing that fills the blank slots.'

As for the cooling fans, the rear one is an LED fan, and the two front ones are non-LED fans.

3) Interior
- Inside, the manual and parts were bundled like that. Otherwise, it's like this.

Inside there was a bracket. This bracket could fix a 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, and it was quite fresh to me. If there's one regret, it's the thought of how it'd have been if they'd made the bracket mountable in various places. Anyway, providing a bracket as standard is good.

For the side: on the lower right, the bottom is perforated so the power-supply fan can face it, and a dust filter was attached on the outside. On the left there was a bracket to fix a 3.5 HDD, but in my case I had no HDD so I didn't use it. It looks suitable as space to put leftover power cables later.

3. Pros and cons in the box- and case-opening process

1) Pros
- The parts were very easy to see, so I could intuitively tell how many parts there were.
- The case was wrapped in plastic, so there was relatively little worry about scratches.
- The case was fixed inside the cardboard box by styrofoam, so there was no worry about it moving.

2) Cons
- The manual is too disappointing. (But it's not just this company; even when buying other parts and cases, the manuals were excessively simple.)

You can see there's a rather simple manual like this. It being quite simple is good, but the problem is it was too simple. It didn't even classify screw use by screw size, shape, or length, so it looked rather hard for beginners to assemble. Of course, the simpler the manual, the more cost can be cut, and there are good points, but even so, rather than necessarily making the manual simple, wouldn't it be good to definitely include the necessary things?

4. In the next post?

- I think I'll actually try installing the system. I haven't installed/assembled a system recently, so I don't know whether assembling this system is easy or hard, and since I'm not an expert I won't assess the case's strength or paint quality. I'll just approach this 'case' from an ordinary user's standpoint.
- I'll roughly include these contents in the post.
1) Whether the bundled fans work well.
2) Whether I can run the bundled fans on the board I have.
3) What was comfortable and what was uncomfortable in the assembly process.
4) Whether it fit the case requirements I think of.

The case is more satisfying than expected, so I think I'll be satisfied after assembly too. I'm looking forward to it.

- This review was written with a product provided by DAVEN Co. through a Quasarzone field test. I thank the host who provided it.

#DAVEN #FT305 #computercase