Introducing - Hoplite, a warlike house from Enermax

First, because of the title of the article, we are indebted to you. We like to look up where the name of a product can come from. On the one hand, this makes our work and writing more interesting, and on the other hand, it can also help where the manufacturer positions the product and what purpose it is intended for.

Well, Hoplite, though at first it doesn’t seem like an interesting English word combination yet. The name evokes soldiers serving in ancient Greek city-states. The house, on the other hand, while quite militant, may be more reminiscent of the immersive movie Star Wars. Think of the imperial walkers as they march behind a hill and only their backs are visible. Of course, in some depictions, the Trojan horse has a similar background, so the naming may be more derived from here. Okay, let's not dissect this anymore, let's see the house itself. When lifted out of the box, its weight appears first. He’s a real serious individual, which is a good sign for a computer case. We can't complain about its size either, as we can put a lot in the 493 × 200 × 490 millimeter box.

But before we look at the inside, let’s see what we get from the outside!

All in all, all its cartilage radiates strength to the castin. We don't see rounded lines, it's a real macho structure. The front panel was lattice all the way. At the top are removable front panels that hide the location of the 5,25-inch drives. There are four of them. Below this is a larger opening door, behind which we find a fan. There is again a door in the lowest region, behind which is space for two 3,5-inch hard drives. I will talk about that later.

This is where the optical drive comes in

Az motherboard the tray side does not offer much interest. The opposite surface is also restrained, we can't find a plexiglass side wall at this house, which is not a problem, plexiglass is no longer fashionable. However, we find a lattice surface through which air can flow freely. The grating is “decorated” with holes recessed in different places, which help to accommodate fans of different sizes.

And here we can mount a hard drive

The back cover already has several interesting things for us. Let's start over! There is a rubberized opening at the top, which can be used to outlet cables, ie USB 3.0 cables on the machine. The situation in Faramuci was that although the housing already has connectors according to the latest USB standard, on the motherboards currently on the market we only find such an outlet on the back panel. Below this is a 12-centimeter fan grille, followed by two holes. Their rims are rubberized again. Their role is to ensure that any silicone pipes used for liquid cooling conduct the hot water to the external heat exchanger and from there to the cooled water. Meanwhile, the terminals for the expansion cards come in, and at the bottom are the location of the power supply.

After we walk around the house, let's look at the top! I left this operation to the end because the first really interesting capability can be found here, and it’s nothing more than a hard drive dock. The docking station should be taken literally here, ie it is quite easy to slide the drive into the slot and apply a little force to the SATA connector rail, and then you can search for it.

On the cover, more precisely on its slope towards the front, you will find the controls and the usual connectors. As you can see in the picture, the plastic in the USB jacks is blue, so here we can see the other end of the USB 3.0 cables. The manufacturer did not save the eSATA socket either, so we can give a big red dot!