Cooler Master Praetorian 731 Case Review

Cases & PSU/Cases by petervandamned @ 2005-02-13

We take a closer look at one of the latest full tower cases coming from the widely known Coolermaster farm. The Praetorian product line has been around for some time now, providing a high quality finish with easy installation features and good case cooling. Does the new "731" continue this tradition?

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Putting the volts in

The internal design of the 731 does not differ much from the Coolermaster Praetorian PAC T01, mounting your hardware inside is pretty much the same.

This case comes without PSU leaving you the choice to install the appropriate one to power your system, the installation process is straightforward, the picture below is taken from our PAC T01 review:

Madshrimps (c)


The motherboard tray is removable which helps installation quite a bit, and comes in handy when you change your hardware a lot

Madshrimps (c)
(Note: this is not the 731 tray! The 731 tray has 2 fans with blue leds)


Installing optical storage and hard drives is done by the old fashion way, 4 screws for each unit. This will unfortunately scratch the aluminium. Behind the motherboard tray is enough room to store the cables and connectors, clearing the CPU area to allow "fresh" air to pass through.




Time for something Blue :

Let me show you what those nice led fans can do in this case:



Sorry for that bit of green there, but I did not want to modify our used OCZ PSU,


The side panel hole allows you to look into the heart of the beast


Let's do some stress testing ->
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