Raidmax Mustang 289 Review

Dimensions (HxWxD): 410x200x450 mm
Form factor: ATX, mATX
Material: Steel

Expansion Bays:
4 pcs. extern 5¼"
2 pcs. extern 3½"
4 pcs. intern 3½"

Fan mountings:
Front: 4 pcs. 80mm
Back: 1 pcs. 60mm
Sidedoor: 2 pcs. 80mm

Fans:
2 pcs. Yate Loon (32 dBa) includes (4-pins).

Front interfaces:
USB 2.0: 2 pcs & Audio: 2 pcs. (input/output)

Weight:
7.23 kg

It says 7.8kgs on the box but with just the case my Tall Tale measure 7.21kg.

The only good place on the case to mount a fan to suck the warm air out from the case is on the back or the top, and that is only a 60mm on the back.

You should have a black CD-Rom-drive to match the case but I didn't have one so I did a little modification instead.

I've mounted a Cold cathode blue light into the case and here is the results, pretty nice.

Conclusion

The case really looks good but the airflow solution isn’t the best. Something that I did with the case was to make an 80mm hole on the top of the case, then it was allot better. I don't know how they had planed the airflow, but not very well anyway.

The price were I bought the case was pretty cheep so that’s good but it was without a power supply. If you are not buying it for it looks the Storm 847 model from Raidmax I think will be a better choice, it has already a fan mounting on the top.

One thing that I notice after a while was vibrations from the case. These vibrations caused unpleasant sound and if I pressed on the case the vibrations stopped, but came back after a while. I modified the metal side with some isolation and tried to make it more stable then it got better but I don't think it’s very good built when jarring sound comes from the case.