Fractal Design FD-C-TOR1A-04 Torrent Light Tempered Glass Black RGB Steel ATX Mid Tower Desktop Chassis

For potential buyers who want the best air-cooled chassis...look no further! This is an absolute beast that was designed to home your unruly hardware with ease and....man this thing is easy on the eye! With oodles of space and plenty of build flexibility, it won't take you long to put your masterpiece together! Build quality is on another level and maintenance is a breeze! This chassis will house many generations of hardware!

I was struggling with high temps and loud fan noise in my previous case, so decided its time for an upgrade and did some research to get to this.
The fractal Torrent has some truly spectacular airflow with 2x 180mm front intake fans and 3x 140mm bottom intake fans for feeding the GPU directly with fresh air. The design also closes off all other escape routes forcing the airflow across the motherboard and CPU area for great cooling.
A very good positive pressure design with impressive results.

Only minor downside I found was that the PSU was the only extraction fan, so was pulling a bit much of the heated air from the case. Installing a rear 140mm extracting fan solved this issue easily as that became the desired path.

All the pre-installed fans are RGB and can be daisy chained to have a great uniform lighting effect. There is a 9 slot fan hub to also ensure that the fans can be synchronized.

There is a lot of space inside the cassis for any type of build and this case would be well suited for water cooling configuration as well, though giving up on the amazing front dual 180mm fans would be a shame, as they are the star of the show here.

Overall aesthetics of the case is spectacular, with great curves, all glass side panels, front and back, and lots of cable management straps and brackets to make the build clean and tidy.

Overall the best case I've ever built in and combined with the focus on airflow I believe this to be one of the best cases on the market currently, possibly only rivalled by the Torrent Compact, for a more snug PC build. That said, if your focus is water cooling then this might not be your first choice due to much of the cost being for the 5 pre-installed fans.

Got this case after seeing lots of good reviews on YouTube. It's really well made and I couldn't be happier.
Very spacious to build in, the airflow is fantastic and I also really like the top mounting PSU.
Only thing I wasn't aware of was that it comes with 2 glass side panels. I found that a bit odd, as I didn't think people would want to see the cable management mess behind the motherboard.
Anyway, I'm going to put vinyl branding on the inside of that glass panel, as it's my content creation workstation so it should look very smart when done.

Zero regrets buying this chassis. Massive upgrade from what I previously had. The airflow of this case is incredible.

Great/Insane positive airflow, use this case especially if you are going to air cool your CPU. I definitely would purchase again; some drawbacks are that the outer case is plastic and if the bottom fans run at low speeds the plastic dust mesh cover seems to rattle.

Originally was hoping to get the Meshify 2 RGB case, but difficult to find in SA so went with this as my second choice. Was concerned about noise levels, cable management and lack of flexibility in particular from reviews for the Torrent, but can honestly say that the case has exceeded expectations so far! (A caveat to this review is that I was coming from an ancient Mecer Graphite case so anything would probably have seemed better in comparison)

I have gone with an air cooler build and had a lot fewer issues with cable management than expected. Noise levels are much lower than I thought they would be with a fairly open mesh case design. Guess time will tell with the flexibility of it if I decide to change things up and go with an AIO in future.

Love the look of it, great build quality, CPU and GPU temps have dropped, easy to build in, love the mostly tool less design!

An excellent chassis, can't think of any cons to it. Has so much space and cable management options. Due to the large, super silent fans, the airflow is amazing.

They gave you all the space in the front so that you didn't have any at the back!
Took me 10 mins to build another 2 hours trying to get the back panel on! So yes, the reviewers weren't lying when they said another 5 to 10mm would do.

That aside, the thermals on this thing is insane and worth the 5 stars I am giving it. Overclocks that were beyond my reach are now at comfortable temps and the aesthetics of the case is great. It's worth it's $$$.