Kingwin KT-424 Aluminum Case
by Kristopher Kubicki on August 18, 2003 11:18 PM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
Inside the KT-424
Unlike some other aluminum cases that we have reviewed, the aluminum construction continues inside the case throughout every structure. We immediately noticed the rubber mounts for the hard drives. Kingwin placed these rubber stoppers inside the mounting holes for each 3.5” internal bay. As we have noticed in our testing of this case, these stoppers do dampen the noise of the hard drives spinning. This upgrade adds considerably to the performance of the case at almost no cost.
Our only complaint about the hard drive mounting is the absence of any sort of removable bays. Unscrewing the hard drives requires both sides of the tower to be removed. Welcome back to the dark ages.
The KT-424 came with yet another solution for "screw less" bay mounting on the external 3.5” and 5.25” bays. These are similar to the Foxconn clips that pull forward to apply pressure on the sides of the components. As far as we can tell, these clips are durable and work well, but can inhibit your choke of fan controllers or other half length external devices. Removing the clips does not help, since there are no standard sized holes to mount something with screws.
PCI and AGP expansion bays used standard thumbscrews and metal covers. We have seen a lot of different suggestions to this design, but in our opinion, this still might be the best.
An unusual sharp edge exists up at the top, along the power supply mounting. Kingwin does not include plastic runners with the KT-424, so all edges are smoothed or folded over.
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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.