Reviews - Fractal Design Define R4

[MrJim]

Actually 57% of the price. You say it offers 90% of the features, but that's a quantitative measurement, of the 90% of features it offers, I'd say qualitatively the R4 does them better, hence the extra cost is worth it.

A hard drive bracket is a hard drive bracket...but the R4's offer SSD fixing points, on removable drive cages, with vibration damping for 3.5" mechanical drives, and are completely toolless, it's the difference between:

Actually it was an approximation of a quantitative measurement, but let's not get pedantic about it, eh?

FYI the Three Hundred Two offers two SSD specific fixing points (one behind the mobo tray, one in front of the PSU). It also has toolless 3.5 & 5.25 fixings. The only things it lacks over the R4 are the removable drive bays, sound dampening, and the two USB 2 sockets (it has just two USB 3). Hence the 10% approximate difference I don't doubt that the R4 is a good case, I just think the Three Hundred Two offers better value.

[tre_peter]

Great review, but I had already made the purchase before reading Needed a new case as I couldn't face putting my new rig into my dusty old Antec Sonata II. Arrives tomorrow, can't wait to hear how quiet it is!

[Aleks]

I like the big hole behind mobo. So u can easily change cooling of CPU and not needed to get mobo out!

[Wildcard[UK]]

It's a toss up between this and the Corair Obsidian 550D for my new build. I'll have to indulge in my usual paralysis by analysis before I decide

[Johnny65]

Well i must say that this cache Is a good thing for modding im going to put 1 Rad 140 x3 in top an 1 140 x2 in front

[joshy989]

Having two spaces to mount ssd's on the back of the motherboard is genius!