Performance

With everything up and running I spent a little time with it setup here in the office while installing Windows 7 and then installing a collection of steam games prepping for our LAN. While leaving it running here in the office I had a lot of time to listen to the case in comparison to our test benches and even my HAF X based main PC. As I expected after seeing all of the built in sound deadening the Define Mini was very quiet. Obviously any noise generated by the GPU couldn’t be quieted, but everything else was near silent. With three 120mm fans installed, this is impressive. Because of the use of all of those fans, the Define Mini also does a great job of keeping everything cool, even without having to look like all of the other high air flow cases.

Outside of noise and cooling I was also happy to have a USB 3.0 port built into the front I/O panel. At the LAN I found this very useful a few times when sharing files and it helps greatly in the office also.