Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B User manual

I. Introducon
• Specicaons
• Accessories
• Features
II. Installaon Instrucons
1. Installaon of the motherboard
2. Installaon of external drives
2.1 Opcal drives
2.2 Ulizing the external 3.5 inch bay
3. Installaon opons of HDD’s
3.1 Mounng of hard disk drives
3.2 Conversion and removal of the HDD-cages
3.3 Ulizing the 6 x 2.5 inch mounng frame
4. Removing the front panel
5. Fan assembly
5.1 Front fans
5.2 Fans under the top cover
5.3 Fan at the boom of the case
6. The 2-channel fan control
6.1 Connecng the fans to the fan control
6.2 Operaon of the fan control
7. Installaon of a water cooling
7.1Installaon of a radiator or compact water cooling behind the front
7.2 Installaon of a radiator or compact water cooling under the top cover
8. The I/O-Panel
III. Support
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I. Introducon
Congratulaons on the purchase of your new Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Revision B. We are condent
that you will be delighted by your new PC case for many years to come.
The Nanoxia Deep Silence series has already won more than 100 awards from the internaonal
trade press. The innovave design and the exceponal quality certainly delight experts and
enthusiasts alike.
Based on the suggesons of our customers, our design team has developed meaningful op-
mizaons in the context of product development, which you will nd in the present revision.
For example, our designers have created a novel 6 x 2.5 inch mounng frame, which allows the
space saving and decoupled mounng of up to six 2.5 inch drives.
In the new revision, the Deep Silence 5 Tower provides plenty of space for your most demanding
projects. Due to the modular hard drive cages, the case oers maximum versality and compa-
bility, both for water cooling project and the installaon of high-end systems with air cooling.
Specicaons
Dimensions: 552 x 232 x 550 mm (Height x Width x Depth)
Material: Steel, plascs
External drive bays: 3 x 5,25 inch (tool-free)
1 x 5.25 inch /w 3.5 inch adapter (tool-free)
Internal drive bays: 8 x 2.5/3.5 inch bays (max. 11)
6 x 2.5 inch
Rubber sealings for
tube holes
EPS 4+4-Pin extension 24-Pin ATX extension Fan screws Stand-offs
for mainboard
Screws for
mainboard mounting
Screws for
HDD mounting
Screws for
3.5” mounting frame
Mounting screws for
2.5“HDD/SSD
Mounting screws for
2.5“HDD/SSD (long)
Mounting screws
for PSU
Thumbscrews
Accessories
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If you are missing any of the items listed above, please contact our customer service
immediately: [e-mail]
Features:
- Watercooling ready
- Complete customizable soundproong with high quality materials meeng industrial standards
- 6 x 2.5 inch mounng frame
- Tool-free mounng of opcal drives
- 2 x USB 3.0, 2 x USB 2.0
- 10 Slots for expansion cards
- Max. VGA length: 338 mm (up to 468 mm with the HDD cages removed)
- Room for CPU coolers with a maximum height of up to 185 mm
- Mounng hole for CPU cooler in the motherboard tray
- Cable management with 9 rubberised holes in the motherboard tray
- Stepless 2-channel fan control for up to 6 fans
- Nanoxia VentCover (noise indulated): 2 x top cover
Noise Insulaon
The Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B has been developed with the aim to oer the buyer a low-
noise case, while at the same me allowing for extremely low system temperatures. The sound
insulaon design is based on mulple interacng design elements:
The most important part is the large scale lining of the case with sound-absorbing insulaon
materials. These materials are manufactured specically to meet the requirements of the
developers of the Nanoxia Deep Silence case series and act equally against airborne sound and
structure-borne noise.
Included are special rubber seals which can be used to alternavely close the tube holes above
the rear chassis fan, in case you don’t need to use them.
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The removable Nanoxia VentCovers mask the 120/140 mm fan holes in the case top. They
allow the user to choose between the least possible noise and improved case venlaon.
Another design element for opmum sound insulaon is the use of two sound-insulated front
doors. The doors are equipped with sound-absorbing foam. Hard drives and power supply are
also decoupled mounted.
The whole concept of sound proong meets the highest expectaons.
Venlaon System
The Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B has an integrated venlaon system consisng of three 140
mm Deep Silence fans and a built-in 2-channel fan controller. A total of up to six fans can be
mounted.
The Nanoxia VentCover under the top can be removed at any me and allow the installaon of
120 mm or 140 mm fans for opmized heat dissipaon.
The Deep Silence axial ow fans have been specically opmised for very quiet operaon. The
range of fan speeds and controls was designed to enable each user to adjust the case venlaon
to their own needs.
All air intake openings (front and boom) are readily accessible and have easy to clean dust
lters. Behind the lower front door two “Easy Access Panels” are located, allowing an easy
access to both the dust lter and the front 140 mm fans.
Standard Equipment:
Front: 2 x 140 mm Nanoxia Deep Silence fans (max. 1,100 rpm)
Rear: 1 x 140 mm Nanoxia Deep Silence fans (max. 1,100 rpm)
Oponal Equipment:
Top cover: 2 x 120/140 mm fans
Boom: 1 x 120/140 mm fan (removal of the HDD-holder necessary)
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Watercooling-ready
The Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B has been prepared for the installaon of a water cooling
system.
Therefore you can install radiators or a compact water cooling soluon under the top cover as
well as behind the front panel.
Top cover: 120/140/240/280 mm slim radiator
Before installing a water cooling system under the cover, please ensure if there is sucient
distance to the motherboard components. We recommend mounng the radiator behind the
front of the case.
Front: 120/240 mm radiator
Behind the front panel, a 120 or 240 mm radiator can be mounted. Please note that the front
HDD-cages must be removed for this - the HDD cage on the secondary mounng rail can
usually remain in the case.
For compact water cooling soluons, you should check before the installaon if the original
factory hoses between the cooler and radiator are suciently long enough in order to mount
the radiator-fan-combinaon at the front of the case.
Rubber hose guides:
Four rubber hose guides are located in the rear, so that the appropriate water cooling compo-
nents can be operated or mounted externally.
On the next pages you can nd some useful ps and explanaons for the opmal use of your
new case and for the installaon of your hardware.
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II. Installaon Instrucons
1. Installaon of the motherboard
You can mount E-ATX, XL-ATX, ATX, M-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards in the Deep Silence 5
Rev. B. In order to ensure an easy installaon of your motherboard, we suggest the following
procedure:
Please consult the following charts to nd your motherboard form factor. Aach the stand-os
according to your motherboard form factor.
E-ATX XL-ATX, ATX Micro-ATX Mini-ITX
Aach the included EPS extension cable on to your motherboard – do not connect it to the
power supply yet.
Next you should mount the CPU cooler - for very large CPU coolers, the aachment of the EPS
extension cable aer installaon can be dicult.
In the next step place the motherboard
gently inside the case and lead the EPS
extension cable through the opening
provided in the top le of the mainboard
tray. Fix the motherboard to the mother-
board tray.
Aer the installaon of the power supply,
you can connect the EPS extension cable to
the EPS-connector on the PSU at the back of
the motherboard-tray
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2. Installaon of external drives
You can install up to four external drives. An adapter frame for mounng a 3.5 inch drive is
included.
2.1 Opcal drives
To install the opcal drives, please remove both side panels. The installaon of opcal
drives is tool-free.
Remove the 5.25 inch cover by pulling the
lateral lng lever cauously towards you
and take out the cover.
Then loosen the lock on both sides by drag-
ging the black slider backwards (1).
Then slide the drive into the desired posi-
on.
Lock the holder by pushing the slider back
to its original posion (2).
2.2 Ulizing the external 3.5 inch bay
If you for example desire to place a 3.5 inch card reader, you can use the internal adapter for
this purpose. Please remove at rst the 5.25 inch cover (see chapter 2.1).
Open the two quick release of the boom 5.25 inch bay and remove the adapter frame. Install
the card reader in the frame and then put both the frame and the card reader back into the
bay. Lock the quick-release. At the end you can put the included 3.5 inch adapter plate carefully
before the card reader.
3. Installaon opons of HDD’s
The Deep Silence 5 Rev. B allows you the decoupled mounng of 14 hard disk drives. A total
of 11 x 2.5/3.5 inch bays are available. Included is the newly developed 6 x 2.5 inch mounng
frame, which will take three 3.5 inch bays for installaon. By using the 5.25 inch to 3.5 adaptor,
you can mount a total of 15 hard disks drives in your case.
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3.1 Mounng of hard disk drives
Install the 2.5 or 3.5 inch hard drives in the illustrated mounng frames. In order to extract the
frame, squeeze the protruding brackets and pull the slide out gently.
To install a hard drive into a bracket insert the disk so that the connectors point to the back and
aach the hard drive using the screws provided
For the ng of 3.5 inch hard drives
please use the holes in Figure 3A
For the ng of 2.5 inch hard drives
please use the holes in Figure 3B
To lock the drive, push the bracket with the
drive back installed back into the slot unl the
bracket is re-engaged.
3.2 Conversion and removal of the HDD-cages
Your new case is equipped with three modular HDD-cages (2 x 3-bay, 1 x 5-bay). The cages can
be removed, swapped or reposioned.
Due to this unique variability, you can:
- Adjust the number of available HDD mounts
- Install extra-long graphic cards
- Opmize the air ow within the case
- Mount a water cooling system behind the front fans
To remove the upper HDD cage, rst remove the le
side as seen from the front as well as the two thumb
screws that secure the cage. Then you can carefully
pull it out.
Figure 3A Figure 3B
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3.3 Ulizing the 6 x 2.5 inch mounng frame
Our newly developed 6 x 2.5 inch frame allows the space-saving mounng of up to six 2.5 inch
drives. For installaon, the mounng frame will need three 3.5 inch bays.
To mount the hard disks, please remove the mounng frame. Insert your 2.5 inch drives
If you want to remove the lower hard drive cage in order to install a water cooling radiator,
simply loosen the 8 screws holding the cage to the chassis.
First remove the front panel (see chapter 4).
Next loosen the four screws securing the HDD cage to the front panel.
Finally, remove the four screws at the boom of the case which allow the cage to be removed.
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4. Removing the front panel
To remove the front panel, simply hold the
cut-out at the boom of the front panel and
pull it towards you with a rm tug.
Please note that the cables of the I/O-panel
are guided through the front into the chassis,
so please be careful when removing the
front.
vercally in the frame and secure them on both sides with the 2.5 inch mounng screws (long).
Then push the frame with the hard drives into the HDD cage in the posion you prefer.
If you plan to put the frame in the addional 3-bay HDD-cage, we recommend connecng the
SATA power and data cables, before pushing the mounng frame back into the cage and then
guide the cables through the appropriate cable guides in the motherboard tray.
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5. Fan assembly
Three 140 mm fans are pre-installed in your case. You can mount up to six fans in total.
We recommend the use of the 120 or 140 mm Nanoxia Deep Silence fans, available separately.
These are technically and visually equivalent to the factory-installed case fans and will work in
perfect harmony with the built-in fan control of your case.
You can, of course, connect the addional fans to the fan controller (see Chapter 6).
All air intake openings are equipped with easy to clean dust lters. We recommend that you
clean them on a regular basis.
5.1 Front Fans
To switch the fans in the front or to clean the dust lters, rst open the lower front door. Next,
open the “Easy Access Panel” by pushing slightly on the le side of the panel (picture 5A).
You can remove the fan by pushing away the retaining lugs a lile bit from the fan and then
pull the fan out (picture 5B).
The dust lters can easily be pulled out, as you can see here (picture 5C).
Please note, that the lter elements must be fully inserted to guarantee the proper operaon
of the “Easy Access Panel”.
picture 5A
picture 5B
picture 5C
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5.2 Fans under the top cover
If you want to install addional fans at the top of the case, please remove the Nanoxia VentCovers
rst by removing the screws on the outside of the case.
Next, hold the fans from the inside and secure them to the top by fastening the screws from
the outside.
Case fans installed at the top of the case should exhaust air out of the case (fan rear side
facing outwards).
5.3 Fan at the boom of the case
You can install a 120 or 140 mm fan on the boom of the case. To do that, you must remove
the secondary HDD-cage mounng rail from the case boom. We recommend the following
procedure:
a) Remove the dust lter and unscrew the
screws on the two guide rails of the lter to
remove it.
b) To remove the secondary hard drive
bracket, please remove the four screws, as
shown on the image.
c) Please place the fan on the inside of the case and secure it from the outside
d) Aach the dust lter mounts again to the case boom and slide the dust lter back to its
original posion.
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The dust lter at the boom can be pulled out for easy cleaning.
Addional case fans on the boom should be mounted so that cooler air is introduced into
the case (fan rear side facing inwards).
6. The 2-channel fan controller
The Deep Silence 5 Rev. B is equipped with a 2-channel fan control for up to six case fans. You
can operate up to three fans per channel.
6.1 Connecng the fans to the fan control
The fan controller is powered by a 4-pin Molex connector that is connected directly to the
power supply.
The controller has two channels (A and B), with each channel able to control up to three 3-pin
fans, therefore a total of six fans can be controlled.
The fan controller is not designed for the operaon of powerful fans. Please take this into
account in parcular when using fans from other manufacturers. The maximum power per
channel must not exceed 18 was.
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6.2 Operaon of the fan control
The sliders for controlling the fans controller
can be found behind the upper front door.
The upper slider controls channel A and the
lower slider controls channel B.
7. Installing a water cooling soluon
In Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B you can install radiators or compact water cooling systems
both behind the front panel and under the top cover. We recommend the installaon of the
radiator behind the front panel.
7.1 Installaon of a radiator or compact water cooling soluon behind the front
Thanks to the modular HDD-cages, you can mount a 120 or 240 mm radiator or a compact
water cooling soluon behind the front.
Please note that the cooler must not exceed 315 mm in length.
For the installaon, please remove the modular HDD-cages (see Chapter 3.2). Open the lower
front door and the “Easy Access” Panels and remove the fans. Hold the radiator from the inside
and secure it with screws, using the corresponding mounng slots.
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Finally, reinstall the fans. For maximum cooling performance, you can also mount addional
fans on the back of the radiator.
7.2 Installaon of a slim radiator or com-
pact water cooling soluon under the top
cover
Under the top cover, you can install in a
240/280 mm slim radiator. To mount a radiator
under the cover, please use the 120/140
mm fan mounng holes.
Before the installaon, please check carefully,
if the distance to the motherboard compo-
nents is sucient.
8. The I/O-Panel
The I/O panel includes connectors for exter-
nal USB devices (2 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0),
and the microphone and headphone ports.
The blue USB connectors are super-Speed
USB 3.0, USB 2.0 ports are black. The le
audio connector (when viewed from the
front) is for headphones, the right is intended
for a microphone.
The hard drive acvity is indicated by
ickering of the illuminated power buon
Radiator
with 2 fans
mounted
Radiator
with 4 fans
mounted
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III. Support
Dear customer,
The PC case you purchased has undergone a very thorough quality control. Nevertheless,
should there be any unexpected problems with your case we ask that you rst approach the
dealer where you purchased the product. They are prepared to assist you with competent and
uncomplicated advice and praccal support.
If perhaps a few screws were missing or you might have a queson that can’t be answered by
this manual, please do not hesitate to contact us directly by e-mail. Our sta will respond to all
inquiries quickly and professionally.
Likewise, we would appreciate your suggesons and comments about our case very much.
Customers from Germany and other European countries can use the following e-mail address
for support quesons, spare parts or warranty issues:
[e-mail]
Customers from Africa, Asia, Australia as well as North and South America can use the
following e-mail address for support quesons, spare parts or warranty issues:
support.over[email protected]
For general inquiries, comments, suggesons and the like please refer to:
[e-mail]
We are sure that you will be sased with Nanoxia Deep Silence 5 Rev. B for many years to
come, so please enjoy your new PC case.
Your Nanoxia Support-Team
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