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AZZA unveils Genesis 9000 - with unprecedented features and uncompromised performance, all at an unbeatable price. Among the many intelligent innovations you’ll find in Genesis 9000, is a removable motherboard tray that can be installed in two opposite directions. Placed in the traditional way, your CPU is next to the top fan. Place the motherboard tray in reverse, the ventilator is now in close proximity to your VGA cards. Placing a giant exhaust fan next to your hotspot is one feature that helps keep the computer cool locally. Furthermore, since the physics of good airflow demands global planning of the position and the direction of the ventilators to ensure adequate air intake and proper exhaustion, Genesis 9000 is engineered with the power supply installed in the front bottom so that two 140mm mid- and rear-bottom fans can supply gusts of wind blasting upward removing excess heat via the top two 230mm fans. This design generates an uninterrupted vertical airflow that allows air to flow in a straight line from bottom to top, providing optimum cooling for the entire system. The full-tower case supports dual-power supply. A second power supply may be installed in the rear bottom.
Genesis 9000 is as accommodating as it is thoughtful. The array of attentive features includes its capability to house a 480mm water cooling radiator, the longest available in the industry. In fact, this expansive case has enough room for up to three radiators including one 480 mm plus another 240mm and a third 120mm. Also, it is the first in its class to hold VGA cards up to 400mm. Maximum compatibility with motherboard allows for installation of XL-ATX, E-ATX, Full ATX, and Micro ATX. It is equipped with five easy swap HDD slots, supporting up to nine 5.25” drive bays. With nine add-on card slots, it is fully capable to accommodate quad-SLI.
Combining each of its innovative features, Genesis 9000 offers cutting-edge over convention, delivering a gaming experience second to none.
Pros: -Massive possiblities for expansion -Comes with 7 quality fans(room for 5 more) -Rock solid and sturdy -Colors are clean and beautiful -5.25" bay locking mechanism is so simple -Airflow design is genius -Cable management is fantastic -Enough room for any GPU -Adjustable GPU retention system(up to 4) -Removable fan filters -Motherboard tray is reversable and so are both side panels -Where is the heat? It blows out cold air
Cons: -Heavy -Big -Its large interior may limit how and where you place PSU so it can reach
Overall Review: This case is absolutely amazing. I mean seriously, AZZA deserves every award possible for case design. Everytime I walk into my office & see it, I am so impressed. People will be envious & think you are some evil genius >:D This case is BIG. I used to think my old Alienware case was a beast. Its not even on par with the Genesis 9000. You better be strong & very careful when moving this after installing everything. Mine is pushing 70lbs, if not more. This is not an amatuers case. This case is for enthusiasts & the very elite of system builders. This case is more than capable of Tri-SLI. So go ahead, fill up every slot on your MOBO, the fan connectors, throw in all your HDDs & SSDs & all your Optical Drives, it can handle it. Now for specifics... -If you want to use an H100i closed-loop CPU cooler(probably all other similar coolers) and you have a large GPU(GTX680), you cannot arrange the MOBO in reverse-ATX and mount the H100i radiator to the top of the case. The hose is not long enough to reach over the GPU and mount securely to the CPU. You can mount the radiator to the bottom of the case, but this will require removing your 2 140mm intake fans on the bottom. Also, the H100i is recommended to be mounted with the cables flowing downward from the radiator, per Corsair. In my scenario, Reverse-ATX is not being used. This is just fine since the bottom 140mm intake fans are blowing air straight into the 3 fans on my Gigabyte GTX 680 Wind Force GPU. Those fans then exhaust the air out of the back of the case through the expansion slots. -In regular ATX setup, you better hope your PSU cables are nice and long if you want to route them behind the Motherboard tray. I have a PC Power & Cooling 1200W MKIII Silencer Modular PSU and the CPU 4x4 cable, routed behind the MOBO tray, just barely reached the connectors on my ASRock Z77 OC Formula E-ATX MOBO. So if your MOBO's CPU connectors are at the very top, you may run into this same situation. I have maybe 3/4inch of play. -Some of the pre-drilled holes, for extra mounting security of the 5.25" bays, do not quite line up perfectly with the screw holes of my optical drives. This is not a big enough issue for me to dock an egg, the built in retention clip system found on the other side, is more than enough to secure the drives. -The GPU retention bracket, that is suppossed to help reduce the strain of the GPU's weight on the PCI-E slot, interferes with the fan on my Gigabyte GTX 680 WindForce. Then again the fans on this GPU are bigger than normal GPU fans, so regular GPUs may not encounter this problem. I fixed it with a little bit of ingenuity using an old sound card retention bracket to hold the edge of the GPU and the included GPU retention bracket to help secure the sound card one. Products like this are why i buy from smaller named companies; AZZA, ASRock, ROCCAT. They have a smaller market share so more quality comes from their products. They want my business & it shows in their effort.