Chenbro Xpider II

Case Fans

When it comes to gaming chassis, the most important features are those for cooling the installed hardware. The best games require the latest in computing technologies to perform their best and if not physically taken care of, those high end, hot running components could become damaged.

This is where case fans come into play. Chenbro has decided to go with a combination of a 120mm and a 92mm LED fan to increase air flow as well as decrease the noise. We have found in the past that 120mm fans are much quieter than their smaller 92mm counterparts and felt Chenbro should have gone with a pair of 120mm fans instead.

The first fan, the 92mm, is mounted at the front of the Xpider II as an intake. It directs air at the HDD carriage, which we have seen happen in more than a handful of cases like Thermaltake's Damier V6000, SuperFlower's X-Mask, and NZXT's Guardian.

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The second 120mm fan is mounted at the back of the case at the height of where the CPU would be to increase air flow over the CPU heatsink. This allowed the CPU to run much cooler than other cases.

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A third fan would have been a great addition, for example, to exhaust air from those heat dispersing VGA cards, like the ATI 9700 Pro that we used in testing the Xpider II.

Update: We originally posted the first fan to be 80mm which was smaller than what was actually included, 92mm. Chenbro has contacted us on this issue to help us resolve this discrepency.