Chaser A31 Snow edition mid-tower chassis - Thermaltake

Thermaltake Chaser A31 Snow edition mid-tower chassis       sooooooooooooooooo Nice

The newest member of Chaser gaming series, sleek and classy white enclosure made for gamers to gear with the latest gaming component, offering not only style and personality but an exceptional combination of cooling, performance and expandability for gaming purists to ensure true enjoyment while in or out of the game.

E-Sport Design

The pristine white metal meshed highlighted with blue fluorescence stripes on the front panel combine with a large transparent side window panel, it hard not to leave your eye off it.

User Friendly Top Panel

Top panel has implemented two of latest data transfer SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ports, a HD microphone and headset jacks, plus a placement platform for users’ electronic devices such as USB/drives/mobile/MP3.

Tool-less Innovative Design

Innovative 5.25” & 3.5” tool-free drive bay design minumized the hassles of installing ODD, HDD and SSD devices.

Convenient Support

Two retained holes support LCS, three retained holes for advanced cable management ,one large CPU cut-out to ease on CPU cooler installation and removable HDD rack to support extra long graphic cards.

Technical Specifications

• Case Type Mid Tower
• Dimension (H x W x D) 501 x 212 x 495mm (19.7 x 8.4 x 19.5 inch)
• Side Panel Transparent Window
• Color Exterior & Interior : Black & White
• Material SECC

• Drive Bays
- Accessible : 3 x 5.25’’ , 1 x 3.5’’ (Converted from one 5.25” drive bay)
- Hidden : 6 x 3.5’’ or 2.5’’

• Expansion Slots : 7
• Motherboards : 9.6” x 9.6” (Micro ATX), 12” x 9.6” (ATX)
• I/O Ports : USB 3.0 x 2, HD Audio x 1

• Radiator Support
- Top : 1 x 120mm or 2 x 120mm
- Rear : 1 x 120mm

• Others
- CPU cooler height limitation : 160mm
- VGA length limitation : 290mm(with HDD rack), 410mm(without HDD rack)

Note : This Case is sold empty (Without any computer components)

Motherboard GA-F2A85X-D3H - Gigabyte

APU

FM2 Socket:

AMD A series processors

AMD Athlon™ series processors

(Please refer "CPU Support List" for more information.)

Chipset

AMD A85X

Memory

4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 64 GB of system memory

* The maximum 64 GB of system memory can be supported using 16 GB (or above) memory modules. GIGABYTE will update the memory support list on the official website when the memory modules are available on the market.

* Due to a Windows 32-bit operating system limitation, when more than 4 GB of physical memory is installed, the actual memory size displayed will be less than the size of the physical memory installed.

Dual channel memory architecture

Support for DDR3 2400(OC)/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules

Support for AMD Memory Profile (AMP)/ Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory modules

“Memory support is dependent on memory module compatibility and system OS”.

(Please refer "Memory Support List" for more information.)

Onboard Graphics

APU with integrated AMD Radeon™ HD 8000/7000 series graphics:

* To use the onboard graphics ports, you must install an AMD APU with integrated graphics.

1 x D-Sub port

1 x DVI-D port, supporting a maximum resolution of 2560x1600

* Support for 2560x1600 resolution requires both a monitor and cable that support Dual Link DVI.

* The DVI-D port does not support D-Sub connection by adapter.

1 x HDMI port, supporting a maximum resolution of 1920x1200

Audio

Realtek ALC892 codec

High Definition Audio

2/4/5.1/7.1-channel

Support for S/PDIF Out

LAN

1 x Realtek GbE LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)

Expansion Slots

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)

* For optimum performance, if only one PCI Express graphics card is to be installed, be sure to install it in the PCIEX16 slot.

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x4 (PCIEX4)

3 x PCI Express x1 slots

(All PCI Express slots conform to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

2 x PCI slots

Multi-Graphics Technology

Support for AMD CrossFire™ technology

Support for AMD Dual Graphics technology

* Only A series APUs support AMD Dual Graphics.

Storage Interface

Chipset:

8 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors supporting up to 8 SATA 6Gb/s devices

Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10, and JBOD

USB

Chipset:

Up to 4 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (2 ports on the back panel, 2 ports available through the internal USB header)

Up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 ports on the back panel, 4 ports available through the internal USB headers)

Internal I/O Connectors

1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector

1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector

8 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors

1 x APU fan header

3 x system fan headers

1 x front panel header

1 x front panel audio header

1 x S/PDIF Out header

1 x USB 3.0/2.0 header

2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers

1 x serial port header

1 x Clear CMOS jumper

1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header

Back Panel Connectors

1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port

1 x D-Sub port

1 x DVI-D port

1 x HDMI port

2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports

4 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports

1 x RJ-45 port

1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector

5 x audio jacks (Center/Subwoofer Speaker Out, Rear Speaker Out, Line In/Mic In, Line Out, Headphone)

I/O Controller

iTE I/O Controller Chip

H/W Monitoring

System voltage detection

APU/System temperature detection

APU/System fan speed detection

APU overheating warning

APU/System fan fail warning

APU/System fan speed control

* Whether the APU/system fan speed control function is supported will depend on the APU/system cooler you install.

BIOS

2 x 64 Mbit flash

Use of licensed AMI EFI BIOS

Support for DualBIOS™

PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.6, ACPI 2.0a

Unique Features

Support for @BIOS

Support for Q-Flash

Support for Xpress Install

Support for EasyTune

* Available functions in EasyTune may differ by motherboard model.

Support for Smart Recovery 2

Support for Auto Green

Support for ON/OFF Charge

Support for 3TB+ Unlock

Support for Q-Share

Bundle Software

Norton Internet Security (OEM version)

Operating System

Support for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP

* Support for Windows 8/7 only when an APU with integrated AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 series graphics is installed.

Form Factor

ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 22.5cm

Remark

Due to different Linux support condition provided by chipset vendors, please download Linux driver from chipset vendors' website or 3rd party website.

Most hardware/software vendors may no longer offer drivers to support Win9X/ME/2000/XP SP1/SP2. If drivers are available from the vendors, we will update them on the GIGABYTE website.