I must be old I knew that was a firewire port. Shocked you didn't know

i still use my HAF 932. back in the day we joked about HAF meaning "Huge As F**k" lol

I bought this for Christmas for myself in 2011, It still sits with a 2700k and dual HD 7970's. The side panel cooling was awsome for SLI/Crossfire builds. Nephew still uses it to play GTA V.

Friend of mine gave us his old HAF case and we later built a gaming in it as a gift for one of our younger relatives. Even 10+ years later, this case holds up very well

PC builders didn't start caring about airflow in the last few years; we cared about it a lot 10-12 years ago. When see-though side panels, RGB, and fancy front panels became all the rage, efficient airflow got pushed aside. There are still lots of builders who put more emphasis on aesthetics than performance.

I am still using the same Cooler Master HAF 922 with three 200mm fans that housed my Intel i5 3570K. Still fires up my i7 14700K & RTX 4070 Ti Super every push of the power on button.

I bought this case brand new 13 years ago, and I still use it. I rebuilt my pc six months ago, and it stays cooler than my son's newer pc!

I miss older PC cases. They were awesome! The HAF case was very cool! I didn't ever get one, but I did have a Cooler Master Elite 430. It had a lot of airflow and a nice big window on the side.

1:49 IEEE 1394 is the standard name, but it's usually referred to as a Firewire port. Mostly developed by Sony, Apple, Panasonic, and Philips. It was a high speed connector. The average person would mostly find it on cameras and Apple computers, but other devices used it as well. It was the predecessor to Thunderbolt and was mostly used in the mid 90s and 2000s.

I love the HAF cases. I bought my HAF 922 in 2011 and still use it as my main computer. I also built in the HAF Stacker 915F mini ITX case in 2015 but the 922 is my favorite. The guts of my PC have changed multiple times over the years but the 922 has been in use every day since 2011

The CoolerMaster HAF 912 is my favourite retro box to build in. So much expandability, and a modern industrial aesthetic to it. Love it.

I still love the look of my NZXT Phantom 410 and I do miss those days where cases werent just boxes with an mesh front like my fractal pop which I currently use.

I still have my HAF X Case great cases

I loved my HAF X case from 2012. Had the opportunity to build in 3 of them between mine, friends and friends dad’s computer, All HAF X.

The HAF stacker concept was really cool as well, as a way to have multiple computers on 1 desk.

Passed this case down to my mom. Complete with lit up red venom face behind the front grills. Loved this case. Dust was an issue though lol.

I literally just built a newer-ish computer into my old HAF 922 literally this past saturday for my friend. So this is just like a recap.

I still use this case and I am loving it.

I had the original HAF-932, predating the USB3.0, when I moved from Canada to the US. I remember it coming with wheels, which were crushed under the weight of the case... I had mine loaded with a number of 230MM fans and the piece in front that comes off is the same size as a bounce sheet, which makes a nice smelling dust filter. I miss it, I gave it to a former coworker/Manager.

Oh man the HAF series! I remember when I first saw the HAF X Nvidia edition 10-12 years ago and been wanting one ever since. It's probably one of my dream cases.

I brought the first iteration HAF 932 back circa 2010, when it came with the grey internals and after watching a KZfaq video, I completely dissemble mine and sprayed it all black. Cue the later model you have which came black as standard. I am still rocking the case today and doubt I will ever buy another case. It has had about five complete upgrade builds over the years, with the latest supporting my 12700K build. Doing music & video production back in the days, meant having a ton of hard drives and this case was the ideal candidate, especially in terms of cable management. It also made for, one of the quietest cases you could run. Like someone else commented, I'll probably die before I get rid of this case--I love it so much.

This brings me back. Cooler Master COSMOs, Antex 1200, P900 all brings back memories

This was my case that I built my X58 platform in, awesome case, replaced the side fan with 4x 120 and had a fan controller in front.

I still have my HAF 922 Advanced from the Sandybridge days... currently houses a H97 and i7 4790 Setup... 🤩🤩

I have 3 of them and love em ,,and modified the side panel to a glass view and a cover for the power supply..the large fans are 200mm …. But thank you for sharing this case !!!❤❤

I have the original HAF932, use it every day and it is mint. I have all the original parts it came with, even the box it came in. It makes a statement for sure with no need for all that rgb.

I'm still using my HAF 932 case. The non-advanced version. What's the difference? Silver interior. No USB3. That's it. The port on the front is IEEE 1394 a.k.a. FireWire. One of the 200mm fans (the one with LEDs) died, but the other still works. The complaints you had about building in this case are ones I also have. Right down to the bowing of the backside panel. When I finally got a modular power supply I thought that issue would be solved. I was wrong. Great video, Greg! My current specs, for those who are interested: ASUS TUF Gaming B650-Plus Wifi (I wish It wasn't but it was all I could get.) AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU ASUS TUF Gaming RTX 3070ti "OC" (Pandemic was wild times.) T-Force Vulcan DDR5 6000 MT/s (CL38 sadly) Arctic Cooling Liquid Freezer II 280mm. Jankily mounted to the top of the case, as it only supports 120mm increments up to 360. Solidly mounted, just not supported. Corsair HX850i 80+ platinum PSU

I'm not a gamer but love the old school cases and systems, loving the channel & learning loads

I stil have mine cooler master HAF 932, not the advance version. My very first computer case. Never gonna throw i away ever.

What a throwback! We had our first custom workstation built in this for work. It was a beast for it's time (some hyperthreaded quadcore and a gt9800 maybe?). The air cooling was overdone to the max, with every grill populated. I remember dedicating a Saturday to clean it out one time. My lungs didn't appreciate it one bit😂 That job went south soon after, but I wouldn't mind building something in that case today. It is such a tank!

I'm still using the HAF X, this case's bigger sibling, and my love for it hasn't diminished at all. I will say you are spot on with describing modern systems (as of early '24) too. I have a new system that was built last year; it has no internal optical drive spaces due to technology moving away from optical media, and the RX 6800 XT fits snug at the front fans where all the hard drive bays WOULD be if the case was built like the HAF models. The HAF X does favor cable management a bit more as the back cover has a protrusion that allows for more space back there. My wires are a mess, and they all still fit fine.

I had the pre cursor case to this case it was the HAF 932 but they didn't even bother painting the inside lol. Then my brother copied me a year later with the same case except his was painted inside. Kept that rig until 2019. Now I run a view 71.

Oh man, I had that case for years only because of yhe space inside. I end up giving it for free and upgrading to the Corsair 7000D airflow. Such a good and solid case.

Used to have that case back in my wow wotlk days.. loved it

I still use my HAF 932 from 2008 that I built my first PC in while in high school lol. Original side, top and rear fans. All lighting works and everything. I remember people in school poking fun at how big the case was and I would tell them I was future-proofing it. Well, 16 years later you can still nearly fit a whole other reasonably-sized desktop enclosure inside my HAF 932 even with a modern GPU lol. I'll probably die before I get rid of this case--I love it so much. I have all these memories throughout high school and post-secondary lugging my HUGE PC around to peoples' houses for LAN parties and such.. I remember vividly loading it in many different vehicles' back-seat area and securing it upright with seat-belts lmao. Even threw my back out one time lifting it in my late teens and was made fun of endlessly for it haha.. but I've only ever had to buy 1 PC case so.. thank you 16 year old me haha.

This was my first case. If i remember correctly this thing also had a gpu shroud. Solid build. pain in the ass to clean at times but to me it was a pretty legendary case.

Greg, now build in an Antec Twelve Hundred! Fill the front with 3x 5.25 to 5x 3.5 cages and have a 20 drive NAS.

I did have an old HAF case that was older than that one, it was before the USB 3. I sold it and have bin kicking myself ever since. I loved that case.

Back in the day, it was my dream case 😊

I still have my old Gigabyte case from 2k1. Barely any airflow, no cable management area and no 2.5” bays. Radeon 6870 takes up all the available space. Just nostalgic.

I gave my HAF 932 to my buddy, with the last machine I built in it. I loved that case, but was bummed because I bought it just before the refresh that hit this case, and mine has a bare metal interior and I didn’t get the USB 3.0 add-on (I did have a third 200mm fan in the top though). I was so excited when I got it because that was like a dream case of mine. There were so many awesome builds with that case in all the PC gaming magazines. I had also had red cold cathode tubes hidden above and below the fan in the left panel and I had the on off and switches on the front so I could manually control it, and when I turned them on it looked like it was a forge or a furnace or something.

I loved that case. Cleaning was a nightmare, but building and upgrading was a breeze

Still using a CM Centurion 590 (slightly older than the HAF series), with some mods planned for the future - slightly larger PSU cable management hole at the bottom, adding an actual fan mounting rail for 3x 120mm to the front, MAYBE remove the 5.25" rack (the case only has 9x 5.25" slots, 3.5" drives had to be installed with a HDD cage), and adding a metal sheet next to the motherboard tray for hiding some of the extra cables. Honestly, these cases, despite being heavy and bulky, the cable management issues, and lack of compatibility with some radiators - mine can't even house a 240 or 280 radiator on top, let alone on the front, but it does have the grommets to route the tubes in and out of the case - they're still amazing to use for a build. Plenty of room, good airflow (no air filters, but that can be fixed with some DIY), and a lot of room for improvement if you don't mind doing some mods.

I was a huge fan of HAF cases back in the day! I had both the 932 and X. Both were great on airflow and very spacious! As you can see that 4070 fit in there without an issue, despite the locking mechanism. Loving these videos, Greg, keep them coming!

I had one of these cases and had a 2 bay reservoir with flow gauge for my water cooling loop. Had DVD, a 6 channel fan controller, and a couple of hot-swap drive trays so I could always upgrade my storage without ever having to open my case. I pulled out the internal hard drive slide trays so all the airflow from the giant front fan would get to the video card as well. You could change the giant side fan to 4x120mm fans as well. Pretty impressive case in it's day!

I had this case for 10 years, she was very faithful and reliable

Michigan here. Great to see an old school case build. I still use a Corsair Vengeance C70 case. Had three until 2021 but sold them as prebuilt gaming pc so my son could have money to get a 4090 gpu. Glad I kept one of the pc's though. Most all the usb ports no longer work so I mostly just use it for watching dvd's.

Ayy the case I used for my first PC build at 13. I miss my fridge 🥲 I actually built my new PC in a CoolerMaster H500 cause of this case. And cause the airflow in my Phanteks P500 sucked 🙃

Haha Greg, this is sweet! I have a Coolermaster HAF X in box fully mint that I still sometimes break out and use to this day! They really are awesome beasts of cases!

i am still using this case . it has been a really good case ,held up well all the fans still going . bought it new at the time

I still own the HAF X, bought around 2011!!!! Coolermaster made a great case. Love that it has wheels and is a full tower.

I have an old CM 690. those gpu retention clips were pain. I'm glad modern cases exist.There is so many plastic things in these old system. all plastic is dying from age.

I love this case, especially as you filled the front with the bluray drive and hub. Replaying Fallout 4 at the moment and this just feels right for that time. Sweet

I like the way old cases had fans on the side blowing air straight to the components

So much room for activities, great video as usual sir

My dad still uses a Cooler Master Haf X. It comes with their "X Dock" hot swap bay. Anyone remember those? Well, one of his sata SSDs was plugged into it. The board died, and thankfully Cooler Master made it easy to take out. The SSD was fine.

Great video Greg, nice to see you build in this Chassis Legend from Cooler Master.

I literally just upgraded from that case last year. I still have it and plan to do another build in it. As for the fan on the door, I bought an extension cable and was able to the front and around to the MB as I had modded the doors to place them on hinges so that they swung open and did not have to be removed. Love that case, which they would make it again, just with usb c and such.

I've had this case since it came out and it's seen me through five separate builds. This latest build will probably be its last due to its immense size and smaller living area, but it's been a true workhorse.

I ran the HAF X case for a good 10 years, before updating to a Meshify 2 XL about 3 years ago. So, estimated between 2010 - 2021, that I used the HAF X. It was big, heavy, and bulky, but it was also great to work with, and work in. HAF X at the time, was great for lots of fan space, and drive space, as I run a lot of old mechanical HDDs for bulk storage. Lots of toolless functionality too. Snapping in 5.25" and 3.5" bays with a push button mechanism, etc. Nice case in its era, imo. 🍻

This was my first case! I loved this thing!

i had one JUST LIKE THAT and man i loved it i always cleaned it, thanks for this video i might just go buy one again and use it. reminds me of my fun days up for weeks lol

My CoolerMaster NR200 has a fan frame inside the lhs panel, they supply both a perforated one for airflow or glass for looks... that works.

I had the Haf 932 for about a year and it was nice I but wanted something different and got an Antec 1200. Both were awesome cases. I sure don't miss all the cables and wires I had to deal with back then. I would spend hours just trying to make it look decent. Building today is so much easier. I love how sleek you can make a build look now days!

im still using my HAF 932 AMD edition, has the acrylic amd side panel instead of the fan, lots of holes on top of case to mount a 280 AIO, plus it has the caster wheels so instead of carrying the heavy case, i can just roll it around, removed all the mounting cages from the front to add 2 140mm fans, added dust filters who needs a new case when the case from 2009 still works

I have a HAF 932 with a i9-10900k, Aorus Z490 Ultra, 64 GB DDR4 RAM from Corsair, ROG 1000W PSU, EVGA RTX 3080, 2 2TB m.2 drives, 1 4TB SSD and 1 6TB HDD. I added a blu ray drive, replaced the USB 2.0 with a Kingwin 7 USB hub in the front along with a touch screen fan controller and a 2.5 inch card reader in the slot that I replaced those two USB 2.0 ports from. I replaced all the fans with 2 140 mm fan on the front intake and rear exhaust in addition to adding 4 120 mm Corsair RGB fans to the side panel. I also have a push-pull RGB AIO on the top. I also added another 120 mm Noctua fan on the bottom of the case next to the PSU to add upward intake. There is also a plastic component covering the drive bays towards the GPU which contains a 120 mm fan screw holes that came with it but is too big for modern GPUs. I modified this plastic component to only cover the fan so it won’t extend over the motherboard and added a 120 mm 3000 rpm Noctua fan on the inside facing the GPU mounted to the drive bay rack. I have 12 fans total. Internal components also include an RGB header, and two NZXT usb headers. I also found magnetic dust filters specifically for this case from a South African company on eBay which work really well to mitigate dust. As someone who likes RGB but doesn’t necessarily want a giant glass window on my PC, this case is the best and provides enough room for a computer that can do more than only gaming. I plan to add another SSD at some point. There are also videos out there of people replacing the front AIO to more accommodate modern ports. Much more can be done with this case.

I had one of these back in the days, great airflow, dust magnet :P

It was a joy watching you doing things I've done many times in my life.. along with the side panel not going all the way in 😂 Cheers!

Hah, my best friend rocks that HAF aswell! Huge chonker, and lots of room for HDDs, and he deffo has a few lol. My last case was a Cooler Master aswell, loved the HDD mounting mechanism.

I own a HAF 932 AMD version since 2009, and still rocks, in red color is amazing !!!

Had the HAF 932 Advanced for a few years. Loved that case!

Great build!

I still love and use that case as my main PC case to this day!! It's a beast, tough as nails, with enough room for anything you want to put into it and great cooling stock. But all of that plastic stuff became brittle and broke off, like yours did. Just order replacement parts for all of that. Great Video!

The contact pin idea you suggest around 12:50 would be an awesome mod! I don't think it would be that hard to accomplish for a skilled case modder.

I had an HAF XB EVO Cube Case back in the day and I amsolutely loved it

I have one of those cases, it was an awesome case back in the day. Plenty of space to build in, but man was it big and heavy. The connection you had to look up is also known as firewire. It was used more in Apple computers back in the day. As far as that side case fan goes, I just added an extension for the fan power, so it no longer was a hassle to install and remove the side case panel.

I actually have a HAF case, it's a bit newer, no firewire, wider, and I think a bit shorter, and it's my daily druver, I love it so much.

I used to build in a HAF 912 adv. for a long time. That was a great Case at its time. Now i'm using the H500M filled with 140 (CASE) and 120mm(AiO PL360Flux 30th AE) Mobius ARGB Fans.

Would be nice to see new/old components in old cases. Looking forward to the next video :D

My favorite part is that hub with the all those buttons and knobs, reminds me of my uncles huge old school cd player back in the day

I still use my HAF932 for primary system. Survived so many iterations of upgrade. Best investment ever.

cooler master was the king of cases back then❤❤❤

Seeing this case makes me feel old, but reminds me of some good memories. It makes me think of my NZXT blue Apollo case that I still have which was before this case like mid 00s; when NZXT was trying to make their cases look like AlienWare cases back then 😂! Good times and good memories!

this is still my case and always will be, been using it for years

Love your videos! Keep up the great work!

I have a Haf 932 and a Haf X under my desk right now. Never had any regrets about the purchase, only satisfaction. Got a new "modern" case for my server: it bends if you look at it badly.

my old rig that I changed last september was still rocking a CoolerMaster N300 from 10 years ago ! Never had thermal problems, but the fans bearings did suffer a bit over the years

I had this case! I loved it! I now how an O11 Dynamic XL and it will be with me for quite some time.

I have a HAF 932 in my office, right now. Great case.

My original intel i7-940 build with crossfired 5850's was built in this case. I still have that build, its kind of awesome to see you looking at this old case

I never had a HAF 932, but my current build, just completed last year, is in a monstrous Rosewill Thor V2 I've had NIB for years. I even have 5 of the 6 5.25 inch front bays occupied. The reason I picked this case was because of the 5.25 inch bay. I needed to include a blu-ray drive, multi card reader, and a HDD dock.

MY old case I had made it through 3 different CPU builds since I got it in 2006! It was a Thermaltake Armor Jr. I use it as a NAS system now. I loved that you could reconfigure the drive bays with the drive cage allowing for several mounting options.

I miss these old cases. Makes me feel old that they're not new anymore.

Started my Zenith Extreme build in my HAF 932. Really excited to see how it comes out!

aw yeah love this case

I have that same case still to this day. Old iBuyPower prebuilt from 13 yrs ago. It’s massive.

I love old school cases. It is ridiculous and I love it!

Nice throwback case!

i use HAF922 and i love it so much

The 932 and 922 are 2 of the best cases to build in. And if you remove the hdd bays, they have a ton of flexibility. The haf 700 line is a dream too.