Green, From Its Series Of Gaming Products It Has Released Under The Name Of Griffin, Has Provided The G7 Case To Hardware City For Review, So That We Can Closely Familiarize Ourselves With Its Dual Use Of Gaming And Workstation And Test Its Efficiency. Stay With Us By Reviewing The Green Griffin G7 Case.
Specifications of Green Griffin G7 case
Pardis Sanat Gareth Sabz Company (Green) has launched a new case from the Griffin series (meaning Lion), which is classified in the company’s gaming product group, with the name Griffin G7 and a gaming/workstation user. The external dimensions of Griffin G7 are 51x22x50cm in length, width, and height, respectively, which puts it in the class of Mid-Tower cases.
In terms of exterior design, in addition to RGB lighting and a glass door, which is an inseparable part of gaming cases, it has been tried to induce the feeling of industrial design and the use of a workstation with a combination of mesh design and metal mesh.
Like other Green products in this category, the Griffin G7 case also supports all high-end hardware, such as E-ATX motherboards, graphics cards with a length of more than 30cm, and cooling radiators with a height of 360cm, despite its dimensions in the Mid-Tower class. There is no limit to the installation of different hardware.
In the table below, you can see the complete specifications of the Griffin G7 case, quoted from the manufacturer’s website:
| Dimensions (length, width, height) | 51x22x50cm |
|---|---|
| Weight | 10.8 kg |
| Materials used in construction | ABS plastic, steel, tempered glass |
| Motherboard support | mini-ITX, micro-ATX, ATX, SSI-CEB, E-ATX |
| Front panel ports | 1x USB 2.0 + 2x USB 3.2Gen1 + 1x USB 3.2Gen2 Type-C + 1x Headphone + 1xMicrophone |
| 3.5-inch drive space | Ten pieces |
| 2.5-inch drive space | Number 5 |
| Additional card space | Eight horizontal grooves |
| The maximum length of the graphics card | 390 mm |
| Maximum CPU cooler height | 165mm |
| Maximum power length | 230 mm |
| Radiator support | 240, 280 or 360mm front + 120, 140, 240, 280 or 360mm roof + 120mm back |
| Fan support | 3x120mm or 2x140mm front / 3x120mm or 2x140mm roof + 1x120mm back |
As mentioned in the table above, the G7 Green case can install 7 120mm fans in the front, roof, and back. By default, the manufacturer establishes seven fans with ARGB lighting and lighting controller and allows you not to need additional fans.
Also, the large number of places to install 3.5-inch drives seems to be another Green solution to add workstation use to the Griffin G7 case.
Unboxing and contents of Green Griffin G7 case
The front of the Griffin G7 case, equipped with ARGB lighting, can be seen on its color box.
On the side of the box, some of the specifications of the G7 Green case and the dimensions and sizes of the supported accessories are included.
The accompanying accessories include the manual, remote control of the lighting system, and management of fans, and a set of accessories needed to install and manage cables, such as various screws, plastic zippers, buzzer speakers, etc., which are also located in a small box in the power compartment.
Green case Griffin G7 with a 24-month Green warranty, at the time of writing this article, costs about 3.3 million Tomans due to the unique exterior design and the ability to support a large number of 3.5-inch drives or storage devices and seven pre-installed ARGB fans. Its purchase value has increased.
The exterior design of the Green Griffin G7 case
The exterior of the G7 Green case has a mesh space on the front panel, behind which ARGB lighting is placed in harmony with the case fans.
A tempered glass door with a sliding closing mechanism is also installed to better display the parts inside the case.
The back door is a metal plate with a section for air conditioning and a magnetic filter.
The front panel of the case is released by slightly pulling it forward, and after disconnecting the cable of the lighting system, access to the chassis of the case and installed fans are provided. Three 120mm fans with ARGB green lighting are pre-installed, and it is possible to replace them with two 140mm fans.
There is no dust filter in the front of the case, and the air passage is limited to minor cuts around the front panel, which limits the amount of air required for any cooling.
The case roof can install three 120mm fans or two 140mm fans, and a magnetic metal filter is placed on it to prevent dust.
The ports on the case’s front panel look perfect for a gaming or work case, as the different types of USB ports found on the back panel are intended for the front panel of the case.
A USB 2.0 port, two USB 3.2 Gen1 ports, and a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C port, along with microphone and headphone ports, make up the ports on the case’s front panel.
On the back of the case, you can see a 120mm fan with ARGB lighting, eight horizontal slots for add-on cards, and the power installation location.
The sliding power installation mechanism in the G7 case makes it possible to easily install the power from outside the case after connecting the required cables.
A sliding filter is also under the case and on the power air intake.
The interior of the Griffin G7 case
The interior space of the G7 case looks a little different due to the broad support for 3.5-inch drives, which can be increased by opening the respective racks to install a motherboard or wide graphics cards.
As you can see in the specifications of the Griffin G7 case, it supports motherboards up to E-ATX size, which is the largest among consumer-class desktop motherboards.
If using 3.5-inch racks, the maximum length of the graphics card will be 29cm; But by opening these racks, the desired size reaches 39cm, in which case, there will be no problem with installing high-end graphics cards such as RTX 4090 or 7900XT.
The power supply (PSU) location is separated from the internal space, and its surface is used to place the installation plate of three SSDs. There is also a cutout on this compartment’s wall to display your Power brand.
Also, at the end of this section that reaches the front of the case, there is a cut so that 360mm radiators with a maximum thickness of 6cm can be installed in the front of the case.
The interior space of this case is approximately 17cm deep. After installing the motherboard and according to the height of the motherboard mounting legs, it can support air coolers up to a maximum height of 16.5cm without interfering with the glass door.
A large cut is installed on the motherboard tray so that all types of air or liquid coolers can be easily installed or replaced without removing the motherboard from the case. There are also cutouts around the motherboard tray for cable management.
Another plate for installing 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives are placed behind the motherboard tray and next to the frames set in front of the power compartment; the total number of HDDs and SSD that can be installed increases to 11.
In the case of Griffin G7, the mounting frame of the storage drives installed in front of the power compartment is non-removable, and you will have only 23cm of space to install the power and manage its cables.
Due to the installation of 7 fans with ARGB lighting by default in the G7 case, Green has placed the dedicated lighting management controller along with its remote control behind the motherboard tray so that you can control the lighting effects of the fans even without the need for software or synchronization with the motherboard. manage the
As you have learned about this controller in the previous reviews of hardware city, only Green Company ARGB fans with a 6-pin socket can be connected to it. This controller cannot manage other ARGB devices with 3-pin sockets.
7 120mm fans installed on the Griffin G7 case have a maximum rotation speed of 1200RPM and ventilation equal to 57CFM. The hydraulic bearing, with very low noise and long life, and the 6-pin output socket that fits the lighting controller that comes with the case are also other features of these fans.
The output cables from the fan controller, ports, and keys on the case’s front panel have good quality and flexibility, and they all have a black coating for more beauty.
Assembling experience with Griffin G7 green case
In this section, to get a better assembly experience on this case, we used up-to-date parts available in the Shahr Hardware Laboratory.
In the Griffin G7 case, much space is dedicated to installing storage drives.
Unlike the G6 case, the combined installation space of 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives is fixed in front of the power compartment. It cannot be removed to increase the power installation space or accommodate more cables in front of the power compartment.
Four racks built into the case’s interior are connected to the inner tray with screws and placed on top of each other by sound-absorbing pads, each of which supports two 3.5-inch drives and increases the ability to install hard drives by eight units.
Considering the ability to support a large number of storage drives (2.5 and 3.5 inches) in the Griffin G7 case, it seems that the purpose of the manufacturer of the Workstation user was to use it as a network storage server, which despite the high-speed drives based on PCIe And even NAS drives, which take up very little space, are not very practical to create such a workstation. Few people will go for it in 2023.
If used, these racks also limit the internal space, so a graphics card longer than 29 cm cannot be installed simultaneously n the two bottom shelves.
Removing the racks makes the empty cuts behind them visible, which negatively affects the beauty of the case’s interior.
Multiple cuts around the motherboard tray have made the passage of various cables easy and without interference. Also, having plastic covers for these cuts will significantly help the order and beauty of cable management.
The vertical cuts, which are a little closer to the motherboard installation due to the structure of the racks and cables, are not positioned correctly, and even an ATX motherboard covers a part of these cuts.
They are installing the cooling radiator in the first rail (pay attention to the place of the screwed radiator in the picture above) along with the fan blocks the horizontal cuts around the motherboard and make it impossible for thick EPS cables to pass due to being too close to the motherboard. As you can see in the picture above, it is placed on the case’s roof to install a cooling radiator up to 280 and 360 mm in size. Although 240/360 coolers can easily be installed and used in the second rail, using a cool cooler with a 280 radiator on the case’s roof is not user-friendly.
There is approximately 2.5 cm of space between the metal door and the motherboard tray, and the built-in fastening points allow cables to be managed behind the tray.
Without installing HDD racks, there is ample internal space for installing various hardware, which can be displayed thanks to the glass door and the fans’ ARGB lighting.
Note that the glass door does not have a holding mechanism, and after opening the two thumb screws behind it, the door is completely separated from the body.
Griffin G7 case temperature and noise test
You can see the specifications of the test system in the following table:
| Specifications | item |
|---|---|
| Intel Core i7 10700K @ 3.8GHz – 5.1GHz | Processor |
| GIGABYTE Z490 Aorus Pro AX (BIOS F21) | motherboard |
| G. SKILL TridentZ 16GB (2x8GB Dual Channel) DDR4 3200MHz – CL14 | RAM |
| Silicon Power Velox V80 – 240 GB SATA III | SSD1 |
| Adata XPG Gammix S50 – 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe | SSD2 |
| GIGABYTE GEFORCE GTX 1080 G1 GAMING 8GB | Graphics |
| GREEN GP850B – OC+ 80Plus Platinum | Power supply |
| Green Glacier 240 Evo | Cooler |
| GREEN Griffin G7 | case |
| Windows 10 Pro 64-bit | operating system |
After assembly, we put the processor and graphics card under stress by running the PowerMAX software test for an hour. In such a case, the power consumption of the whole system is about 470w, which produces some heat in proportion to this power consumption. In such a situation, the ability of the case to receive fresh air and expel the heat produced inside it is measured by measuring the temperature of different parts, such as the temperature of the processor, graphics card, motherboard PCH chip, and NVMe SSD.
In the end, we measure the noise produced by the system by the Sound meter device from a distance of 50 cm directly in front of the door of the case and test the ability of the chance to control the noise produced by the fans in addition to the cooling capability.
Due to this case’s extraordinary fan socket, it is impossible to control through the motherboard, and there are only two levels, Low and High, to choose from. Due to the closeness of the test results in these two modes, we only put the results in the High mode on the graph.
It should be noted that the ambient temperature has been kept constant at around 25 degrees. You can see the result of the temperature test in the following graphs:
In idle mode, today’s hardware consumes very little power and generates little heat, which a mid-tower case like the Griffin G7 with seven cooling fans can easily handle.
In the Full Load mode, where the graphics card and other parts spread a lot of heat inside the case, it can still be seen that the high number of pre-installed fans for this case, even though the air intake is severely limited in the front of the case, can provide ventilation—And heat dissipation inside the case.
The pre-installed fans on the Griffin G7 case are reticent and produce much less noise in both Load and Idle modes than the graphics card and CPU cooling fans.
Hardware city summary of GREEN Griffin G7 case
With Griffin series cases, GREEN company has tried to provide the design and features of today’s topics with quality and reasonable price. Griffin G7 has a strong and quality skeleton that can easily support various hardware with its standard and an updated design.
To eliminate the need for the user to buy additional fans or controllers and lighting strips, Green Case has equipped Griffin G7 with 7 ARGB fans, a front panel with ARGB lighting, and a dedicated controller with the ability to manage their fans and lighting, with a final price of 3.3 million Tomans ( With Green’s 24-month warranty, the purchase value of this case makes it an attractive option for users.
This case is called gaming and workstation by Green, and its interior is filled with many SSD and HDD connection points (of course, with the ability to detach). In the era of hardware technology where storage drives are moving towards the PCIe interface and using cloud spaces, and even in high volumes and work environments, such a need can be easily met with NAS drives; the number of users who need to install and use more than 6 or 7 hard drives drive simultaneously on their gaming or work systems will be minimal.
However, considering the price, this case’s basic capabilities and facilities show it is suitable for working or gaming systems and installing various hardware parts.
In the end, in short, the positive and negative points of the Green Griffin G7 case can be listed as follows:
Positive points:
- Support for various hardware standards
- Tempered glass door
- Seven pre-installed ARGB fans
- Full keys and ports on the front panel
- Competitive price with valid warranty
Cons:
- Limiting the interior space by installing 3.5-inch racks
- Limited air entry in the front of the case
- No air filter in front of the case
With all these explanations, the GREEN Griffin G7 case, with a price of 3.3 million Tomans and a 24-month warranty from the Green Planet Company, managed to get a good score of 8.1 and the Good Value badge and the following minor points in the class of mid-range products from the hardware city laboratory:
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