MVKTech "Stacker" Tweaks

Now that we took the entire case apart for the review and pictures, we can now start putting back the case the way we want to. I will configure this bad boy up with some of the latest hardware on the market. Starting with the following goodies....

We are adding some A.C. Ryan UV LED fans and custom NVIDIA grills to our second power supply knock out panel. While some people will use the second PSU bracket to use an additional power supply, we are going to configure our Stacker to run two 80mm fans for some extra cooling.

Now that the fans and grills are installed and fastened to the knock out panel we are going to re-install the assembly back to its original location and check out how this bolt on mod looks. Not to bad looking, the fans are samples so we didn’t have choice on colors so we took these with no complaints what so ever and they do look pretty damn good!

With the 80mm A.C. Ryan blowers securely attached to the bottom of the Cooler Master Stacker we can now add the 120mm version we have. What we don’t have is matching 120mm NVIDIA grills so we had to make do with what we got and used a standard wire frame grill.

You are looking down the front of the case with all the 5.25" bay grills removed to show you what’s behind all those "stacked" grills that make up the front bezel cosmetics. Again in the back ground you can see we added a 120mm A.C. Ryan fan to match the 80's we have. Removing the grills sheds some light as to how the rail system and front bezel design go hand in hand. Now we will move to the mother-board installation.

Installing the DFI LANParty 925X-T2 mother-board was easy thanks to the included steel mother-board nipples and retaining screws. Just line up the ATX mounting holes and screw the mother-board into place and double check the screws are tight and everything is matched up at the I/O port and you will be all set.

We are now going to finalize the water cooling kit and get this show on the road. We plan to use this rig as a daily user and will need the extra cooling capacity the Stacker can offer our hardware. With the water cooling kit and the Stacker air cooling system this is going to be very efficient at transferring heat out of the box.

The PSU installation can be a little tricky to install, in that you have to insert the PSU into the PSU bay and then attach the mounting bracket. By default one would assume to install the bracket onto the back of the PSU before installing into the Stacker case. This is not what you want to do. I reiterate that you must place the PSU inside the case first then screw the bracket to the PSU followed by screwing the bracket to the case. For our rig we are using the Antec 480watt NEO Power.

Our 4-in-3 will house two Maxtor Diamond Max 9 120GB SATA HDD's. We screwed both HDD's into the 4-in-3 module and placed a Pioneer 16 X DVD-RW, followed by our Swiftech water cooling reservoir in the Stacker drive bay area and we still have plenty of room left over with 5 bay's still free for upgrades and modifications. Whelp this about wraps up the up close and personal and is pretty much what you can expect from Cooler Master Stacker Series cases.

*Note* You can purchase these in three color themes, you will have a choice of Silver, Black and Blue to compliment the case style.