Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935 Case Review

Build options in the Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935 are almost too numerous to mention.  A standard system build may only occupy the HAF 925 and by moving some parts around you can make that work.  Folks that want to get extreme with watercooling can place their pumps and radiators in a gutted 915 and run tubes into the 925 for cooling purposes.  We suspect this is the primary system specification however; there is a third system type that may aspire to the inner professional gamer.

Say you have a normal gaming rig in the HAF 925, something like a 4960X on a Gigabyte X79 UD7 matched up with a pair of EVGA GTX 780 Ti Classified cards. You’re playing some Battlefield 4 and would love to broadcast on Twitch.tv but cannot be bothered with any performance lag from your main system.  Using the HAF Stacker you can install a Mini-ITX rig up top (or bottom) and use that system as a game capture and broadcast rig allowing you to game with zero impact to your main rig.  This secondary system could also be a media server, music player and email machine in your downtime.

To give an indication of size we dropped in a Gigabyte X79 UD7 and topped it with a Cooler Master TPC 812.  In terms of overall size this motherboard fits quite nicely with plenty of space for cable routing and expansion cards.  Wider motherboards like the Rampage IV Extreme will fit but may feel a little cramped when it comes to routing SATA cables.

Area around the heatsink is ample leaving room for a top mounted fan and radiator combo along with taller heatsinks like the popular 140mm variants and larger coolers from Noctua.