SilverStone Raven RV03 Case Review

The Top Panel

The top panel of the Raven RV03 can be seen in Figure 10. The top lid is made of plastic, and you have to remove it to access the motherboard rear panel. Here lies the major problem we found with the Raven RV03. SilverStone used a sub-standard plastic on this lid; the plastic is too thin and looks cheap. The pegs that hold this lid to the top panel broke the first time we removed the lid. SilverStone explained to us that they sent us a pre-production sample that, in fact, had this problem (of which they were aware), and that they fixed this problem on the models that are currently being sold.

Figure 10: Top panel with lid on

Figure 11: Top panel with lid removed

The top panel comes with one 120 mm fan (SilverStone S1202512SLN-3M, actually manufactured by Globe Fan, 900 rpm, 18 dBA), which uses a three-pin fan connector (the case comes with an adapter if you prefer to install this fan directly on the power supply), eight expansion slots with vented covers, two holes with rubber covers for external liquid cooling solutions, and two two-step fan controllers for the bottom fans. These controllers can be accessed without the need to remove the top lid, which is an improvement over the Raven RV02. See Figure 12. There is also a place for installing SilverStone’s SST-CLEARCMOS switch between the two fan controllers.

Figure 12: Fan controllers

The Raven RV03 comes with only two USB 3.0 ports and the traditional audio jacks, which are available in a small compartment of the top panel, protected by a small lid.

Figure 13: Connectors