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ASSEMBLY
As microATX cases go, the Define Mini is rather spacious making assembly relatively pain-free. Our only annoyance came when dropping screws — black screws on a black background are ridiculously difficult to find. White screws would have fit in perfectly with Fractal Design's cookies and cream color scheme.
The familiar Fractal Design dampened bottom-mounted hard drive tray.
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Test system assembled with the fan controller placed on the side. There was about 9 mm of space above the Noctua NH-U12P CPU heatsink (with the foam of the side ModuVent compressed) making total clearance about 16.7 cm. |
Video card clearance was limited to 27.8 cm due to interference from the non-removable hard drive cage. This is an issue for boards where the PCI-E 16x slot is not at the very top. The 16x slot of our test board is in the second position. |
The fan controller knob is quite long but as the side expansion slot has a large recess, it doesn't stick out too much. |
A few more hooks for routing cables would be useful, but we managed with what was provided. Note how the CPU heatsink cutout is a little too small for our board. Again, it's manageable, but not ideal.
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There was only 18 mm of space behind the motherboard tray (after taking into account the thickness of the side dampening mat) — we had some difficulty closing the panel as a result.
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The Define Mini has a pair of blue LEDs, though they don't shine nearly as brightly as pictured. It's actually a rather pleasantly subdued glow.
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