Sharkoon Announces the AI7000 Case

[btarunr]

Sharkoon expands their range of cases and, with the AI7000 Silent, introduce for the first time a robust ATX Midi tower with pre-installed damping mats. These damping mats effectively reduce the operating noise of the PC, without affecting the airflow inside the case. The case is especially suitable for silent PCs.

The Sharkoon AI7000 Silent is equipped with damping mats on both side panels, top panel and front panel. Sufficient space inside the case allows installation of a wide range of components: Install the power supply and up to three 3.5" hard drives decoupled within the tunnel on the case bottom. The AI7000 Silent also comes with two mounts for 2.5" drives behind the mainboard. Thanks to numerous openings, the mainboard can be discreetly cabled. CPU coolers up to a height of 17.5 cm can be installed thanks to a practical mainboard tray cutout.



The maximum length of graphics cards is 38 cm; power supplies up to 23 cm in length. In the front, there is enough room for a 280 mm radiator with a total height of up to 5.7 cm, plus a fan. As with all newer Sharkoon cases, the front panel is cableless and designed for easy installation, for example, of 5.25" drives. Detachable dust filters, behind the front panel and case bottom, protect the hardware from dirt. Above the front panel, the case offers two USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and audio ports. A 19-pin mainboard connector connects the USB 3.0 ports to the mainboard and can additionally offer alternative USB 2.0 ports. Two 140 mm fans are pre-installed behind the front panel; a 140 mm fan is pre-installed on the rear panel. Accents on the front air intakes are available in the colors red, green, blue and black, which determine the color version of the case.

Also presented is the Sharkoon AI7000 Glass, with a tempered glass side panel, which provides almost identical features but does not contain damping mats. Four different color versions are available, each with a visually matching LED fan on the rear panel.

The Sharkoon AI7000 Silent is available for the suggested retail price of 79.90 euros from authorized retailers. The Sharkoon AI7000 Glass is also available for the suggested retail price of 69.90 euros.

For more information, visit the product pages of the AI7000 Silent HD and AI7000 Glass HD.

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[oxidized]

5.25" drive cage, pass.

 

[micropage7]

CPU coolers up to a height of 17.5 cm can be installed thanks to a practical mainboard tray cutout

wait, wait tray cutout is made to help user installing their aftermarket cooler not for adding space for cooler since it related to the width of the case

 

[Chaitanya]

wait, wait tray cutout is made to help user installing their aftermarket cooler not for adding space for cooler since it related to the width of the case

person who wrote the PR is .

 

[RejZoR]

And no silenced top exhausts. Is this really so high tech over the top feature to expect from not great, but just decent cases? I don't get it who designs these things. If you just ram bunch of air into the case with huge intake fans and then exhaust bit through single 120mm fan, that's just not gonna work well. Heat just doesn't exit the case fast enough in such scenarios. This one has 140mm exhaust, but that doesn't change things that much.

Ideal is 2 or 3 intakes and 2 exhausts. Exhausts being rear and rear top.

 

[Th3pwn3r]

And no silenced top exhausts. Is this really so high tech over the top feature to expect from not great, but just decent cases? I don't get it who designs these things. If you just ram bunch of air into the case with huge intake fans and then exhaust bit through single 120mm fan, that's just not gonna work well. Heat just doesn't exit the case fast enough in such scenarios. This one has 140mm exhaust, but that doesn't change things that much.

Ideal is 2 or 3 intakes and 2 exhausts. Exhausts being rear and rear top.

Your posts have now become just complaints about how things aren't designed how you'd like them to be. Again, you should make your own components . If it's really that simple.

 

[JNCW886]

Here is the video:

 

[RejZoR]

Your posts have now become just complaints about how things aren't designed how you'd like them to be. Again, you should make your own components . If it's really that simple.

The typical "if you don't like it, then make it yourself" bulls**t comments. You know, not everyone of us has a f**king case manufacturing line at home aye? How hard is it to slam the same panel as in the front, ON THE TOP. You're making it sound like I'm asking for something impossible, not something this trivial (when you ALREADY have a production line). Jesus, logic really escapes some of you.

And the reason for me ranting about it is because out of 700 trillion cases in existence, like 5 sort of have such design. I hope this puts your bitching and my bitching into perspective.

 

[kn00tcn]

wasnt nxzt the only one doing that angled bottom edge of the cpu cutout?

And no silenced top exhausts. Is this really so high tech over the top feature to expect from not great, but just decent cases? I don't get it who designs these things. If you just ram bunch of air into the case with huge intake fans and then exhaust bit through single 120mm fan, that's just not gonna work well. Heat just doesn't exit the case fast enough in such scenarios. This one has 140mm exhaust, but that doesn't change things that much.

Ideal is 2 or 3 intakes and 2 exhausts. Exhausts being rear and rear top.

for those that put things on top of their case, top exhaust would be avoided, plus you should have some amount of positive pressure, not neutral, certainly not negative

 

[RejZoR]

And this is the part you don't get it what I'm talking about. With design I'm asking for, you can have all the s**t you want on top of the case while it has exhaust on the top. I guess this kinda explains it. If people have no clue, how would manufacturers...

 

[Th3pwn3r]

Yo

The typical "if you don't like it, then make it yourself" bulls**t comments. You know, not everyone of us has a f**king case manufacturing line at home aye? How hard is it to slam the same panel as in the front, ON THE TOP. You're making it sound like I'm asking for something impossible, not something this trivial (when you ALREADY have a production line). Jesus, logic really escapes some of you.

And the reason for me ranting about it is because out of 700 trillion cases in existence, like 5 sort of have such design. I hope this puts your bitching and my bitching into perspective.

Your profanity shows how childish you've become. Throwing temper tantrums on a forum isn't of sane nature.

 

[RejZoR]

Throwing temper tantrums XD Dude, whatever. Enjoy your garbage cases. But if you don't know better you don't even have a clue what you're missing anyway. Ignorance is bliss I guess...

 

[kn00tcn]

And this is the part you don't get it what I'm talking about. With design I'm asking for, you can have all the s**t you want on top of the case while it has exhaust on the top. I guess this kinda explains it. If people have no clue, how would manufacturers...

ok i reread, you want a solid top panel with side vents & fans underneath... feel like i've seen a couple cases like that recently, but forgot who... cooler master during this year's computex is one possibility

we wouldnt even be looking at 700 trillion cases in the first place, we only start with decent ones that fit enthusiast components as a base, but then probably only the silenced front panel ones, that's now a few hundred at most

did you ever contact manufacturers? how about boutique ones like DAN or that polish one that also had crowdfunding (edit: what if there's a top panel weight capacity issue, what if the sideways exhaust air is awkward, etc)

swearing, yelling, & using grossly exaggerated numbers is a tantrum, it doesnt harden an argument, it just makes it noisy at best, turns people off from reading at worst, why would you want that, dont you want to be taken seriously?

i wont forget the dx12 & linux threads, but i'm not going to just leave you in a corner, i do want you (& everyone) to improve

here, i still have a nostalgic screenshot of your 4,000th post, let's think about how what's happened in our lives during the past 5 years

 

[RejZoR]

Lol, there is actually someone out there who screenshoted my 4000th post here on TPU. That's true dedication

 

[Th3pwn3r]

Throwing temper tantrums XD Dude, whatever. Enjoy your garbage cases. But if you don't know better you don't even have a clue what you're missing anyway. Ignorance is bliss I guess...

Ignorance sure is awesome. I'm more than happy with my BeQuier Dark Base Pro , Fractal Define S, Corsair silent something...and Cooler master HAF for my daughter, she's 5 so she doesn't complain about it not being perfect. Besides, these days you don't need nearly as much airflow, not a single one of my machines has a hard drive in them, all have SSD and platinum or titanium rated power supplies.

 

[RejZoR]

Yeah, hexa core at 4.5GHz and GTX 1080Ti are heat factories. Not a super huge problem, but due to case design I have to use my CPU AiO on the case intake, meaning both GPU and CPU are pumping heat inside the case. 1x120mm exhaust just cannot cope with that. It's why muffled top exhausts are ideal solution. I had to mod my case to create a gap on top cover and actually looks rather nice now, but would prefer a properly silenced top instead of this ghetto mod. Maybe expecting this from Sharkoon is a bit futile, but apart from few cases here and there, not even the biggest names have it.

The BeQuiet in particular didn't convience me with tiny grills in front and on top. Feels like a huge airflow restriction. Not to mention clumsy to clean dust.

Corsair could just convert Carbide 330R to simply have a copy of front cover, on top, exhausting air the same way front is intaking it. Or to the rear, so it improves acoustics while still allowing airflow.

 

[Th3pwn3r]

Flows pretty good, especially open cased

I got a lot of work left to do. I only ended with these fans because I wanted the Thermal take 360mm AIO.

 

[Keullo-e]

I wonder what's that dampening material like. I mean, like this crap on my Phanteks P400S is a complete joke.