Kingwin KT-424 Aluminum Case
by Kristopher Kubicki on August 18, 2003 11:18 PM EST- Posted in
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Virtually every new case seems to come with forward USB and Firewire connections. The KT-424 is no different. A small plastic door houses two USB adaptors and a Firewire adaptor. The Firewire connector from the adaptor leads out the back of the case via a dedicated opening, and then plugs into the motherboard or expansion card.
We do commend Kingwin for including an additional opening, rather than just forcing the user to snake the cables through the PCI openings. However, one question has to be asked: where are the forward audio connectors? We realize that the KT-424 is not the same high quality case as the KT-436, but forward inputs are very important. Anyone with headphones (think LAN parties) knows that forward audio adaptors are simple, but extremely useful afterthoughts on a case.
The front bezel pulls off from the bottom to reveal the intake filters. This removable plastic dust filter is an additional precaution, located behind the metallic dust grill on the front bezel. After a few days of running time, we noticed that this filter was, in fact, collecting dust. Kingwin’s implementation of the dust guard is, by far, one of the more effective examples we have seen.
The curious item under the bezel is the adjustable fan control. For whatever reason, Kingwin thought it was unnecessary to provide an opening for this fan control, and only allow operation with the grill off. Perhaps we should not operate the fan control very often, or at least this is what Kingwin thinks. We do like the idea of putting fan controls right on the case (rather than bay units), but Kingwin probably should have given the control an opening.
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - link
#3 - no need for a grounding cable, remember there's two grounds in the power connector.kris - is the typo the only comment worthy of a response from you?
KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - link
Yak,Thanks for the typo! I have fixed the article.
Kristopher
yak8998 - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - link
On the benchmarks page, under decibel measurements, you list "Kingwin KT-436-BK-WM Aluminum" as the first and last case. I'm assuming one of these should be the 424...?Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - link
i want to adress something off topic does anybody know if the case from ocsystem the OCSystem Diamond Warp Super 10bay Tower Case anygood its for 55$ sounds pretty good looking at the specsAnonymous User - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - link
Wouldn't the harddrives need grounding cables? (because of the rubber mounting grommets)Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - link
you make fun of them for typos, why not fix your own? think? thick? etc...Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - link
one thing that would make this review a lot better - higher res pictures. MUCH higher res. just make them clickable to enlarge like the old days of ATaodfan - Sunday, January 6, 2019 - link
I have had this case for 15 years this month and I still love it. I have managed to have several builds in it and it never fails me. Though I through multiple moves I have been able to maintain most of the parts, but albeit some HDD screws have been lost, but that doesn't really seem to matter at this point since mounting SSD are more flexible. I have even contacted KingWin themselves to see if they have and NOS parts and they were so surprised that I still had one and going strong, that says something for a product that they designed and built so well. I have thought of getting a different case at some point when a new build refresh comes along, but I cannot help but not love the aesthetics of this case. I mean it doesn't seem like they make them like this anymore! I will definitely, even if it does ever get replaced, keep it around.