be quiet! Pure Base 600 Mid-Tower Chassis Review

A Closer Look – Interior

With the side panel removed, we can see a pretty decent interior layout. Nothing particularly innovative, but with a good arrangement of cable routing holes, a large CPU cooler mounting cut-out, pre-installed motherboard stand-offs, the installation process should be pretty straight forward.

In the rear of the chassis, a pre-installed Pure Wings 2 120mm fan, which operates at 1200RPM. Of course, you could easily swap this out for your own fan or a 120mm AIO cooler if you wanted. Below that, 7 expansion slots, providing more than enough room for a multi-GPU configuration, and with thumb screws and reusable metal covers, installation of your hardware should be nice and easy.

In the base, you’ll find more than enough room for a large ATX PSU and any connectors. There’s a long dust filter to provide it with clean air from the bottom of the chassis, and four small rubber mounts will help reduce any unwanted vibrations.

The HDD bay design is really cool, with individual floating cages that will help give each drive the best airflow, while also helping to absorb any unwanted vibrations. I love this design, as it means you only need to add/remove one bay at a time as required, rather than the full drive cage as is often the case on many chassis.

Tucked away in the front panel, a Pure Wings 2 140mm intake fan, which operates at 900RPM, giving us plenty of air flow and low noise performance.

In the top, you’ll see four clips down each side to release the top panel cover.

What’s really clever is that you don’t have to release the cover all the way, and can simply raise it on the clips to provide airflow in or out of the top of the chassis. This will help create indirect airflow and reduce noise, while also providing a neat and tidy looking debris filter.

If you want to pop the top panel off, you can do that too, and you actually will need to for a while if you’re installing fans/radiators here. You’ll find room for 2 x 140mm or 3 x 120mm fans here, as well as equivalent size slim radiators.

Behind the motherboard, you’ll find a fairly decent amount of space for cable routing, although more would have been nice, it’s workable. There are no cable routing grommets on the chassis, but since they’re mostly an aesthetic feature and this chassis has no window, it doesn’t really matter.

Behind the motherboard, you’ll also find two stealth-mounted 2.5″ drive bays, which is great if you plan on ripping out the 3.5″ drive bays from the front to make way for a big radiator.

The front cover can be released with some clips on the interior, and it lifts away with ease thanks to the I/O being mounted on the frame of the chassis, not wired to the front panel, which makes cleaning and maintaining the chassis a heck of a lot easier.

It’s nice to see be quiet! include two of their high-end fans with the chassis, and the 140mm in the front and 120mm in the rear should provide all the airflow most mid-to-high-end systems require.

Here we see the side and front panels, all of which come with a layer of foam anti-vibration/noise dampening material, which should help reduce the number of unwanted frequencies coming from your computer.