Standout features include a newly designed component layout with top-mounted PSU compartment and full E-ATX/SSI-EEB support, large open front grille and bottom intakes, and most notably of all, two 180 x 38 mm Dynamic X2 PWM or Prisma ARGB PWM fans (both developed and released in tandem with the Torrent). The Torrent is a high-performance PC case designed entirely around the objective of delivering the highest possible airflow out-of-the-box with conflict-free support for high-end hardware with unconventionally large cooling solutions.

We would like to thank Fractal for not only sending the Torrent over for us to check out but also the Ion+ 2 and Prisma 180mm fans to make a complete build with. You added that upright, that’s more than 600 CFM of cooling power at your fingertips without adding a single fan. Out of the box, you get a pair of massive new Dynamic X2 180mmx 38mm fans delivering more than 150 CFM each at a silent 1200 RPM, and a trio of matching 140mm fans bulldoze another 315CFM through the case at the same time. Designed entirely with airflow in mind and then polished off in the usual Fractal fashion, the Torrent is more than ready for your most powerful build with the heaviest cooling needs. Fractal Design has flipped this paradigm on its head with the new Torrent Chassis. Unfortunately, the trend has been to prioritize glass and raw aesthetics over performance in the case world and that can make things difficult for cooling. No matter your cooling solution, water, air, or something exotic, they all have one thing in common: The need for airflow. Granted, efficiency has increased to high levels across the board, but a beefy machine can still pump out hundreds to well over a thousand watts of heat when under full load. The one downside to this meteoric rise in power is a rise in heat output. The core counts we have available today in a desktop required a multi-socket rack-mount server only a few years ago. Computers have gotten powerful at a rapid pace with today’s high-end desktop machines quite literally eclipsing early, data center-sized supercomputers in raw processing power.

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