Hands-on with Be Quiet’s Dark Base Pro 901: Decibel dampener

[Admin]

Be Quiet’s Dark Base Pro 901 case leaves little to be desired. Impressive noise reduction? Check. 5.25-inch drive support? Check. Wireless charging?! Check! Lots of storage support? Check!

Hands-on with Be Quiet’s Dark Base Pro 901: Decibel dampener : Read more

 

[passivecool]

we could still be quiet instead of being queit

 

[Phaaze88]

That 300 buckaroos leaves little to be desired too... /sigh.

Lemme get my checkbook...

 

[Greg7579]

I built in 2017 with a Dark Base Pro 900. It is a huge case and deadly quiet with all fans cranking. I loved that case because I build top-end for myself every 4 or 5 years and like big cases (I know most people don't). They are under my desk and never move, so the bigger the better. I just built in a new case that is the same same size that was recently reviewed here - Lian Li O11D EVO XL.

The Lian Li is an incredible case with glass side and front and you can mount the biggest GPUs (4090) upright. It also hides the biggest PSU away in the hidden side of the case behind the motherboard area. It is easily reversable and comes with no fans (which I like because I like to do my own fan thing). It is s expensive, and it is not as quiet as the Be Quiet Dark Pro, but I would recommend it.

 

[dwd999]

Great to see that they still offer an optical drive option for those of us that like them. But I won't consider it until they offer an option with no glass panel and an insulated metal panel instead.

 

[Albert.Thomas]

Great to see that they still offer an optical drive option for those of us that like them. But I won't consider it until they offer an option with no glass panel and an insulated metal panel instead.

Oh man, I should have written about that in this article. OOF!

A lot of folks have told me they'd only consider it with a second insulated panel, and I can only imagine how much better that would be for noise cancellation.

Prior to posting this article, I privately passed on this feedback to BeQuiet!

I'll remind them of that feedback again.

 

[thestryker]

This seems like it would be really good for someone who did everything in one machine. If I had my storage in my gaming box this is definitely the sort of thing I'd be looking for. Outside of that though it just seems overly expensive as there are better airflow cases for less money and similar noise dampening for less money too.

The 5.25" is a welcome surprise addition to this case even though I gave up on this as when I had to buy my last case there were no modern cases with them and went external.