I received the Snow White version of the Y50. (To my eyes, this is more of an arctic white with a slightly bluish cast.) You’ll want to choose your color based on the motif your build is going for, as well as the color schemes of your main parts, such as the motherboard and GPU.
Designed to show off your internal components, the half-wrap glass with a clipped corner has been a signature part of Hyte’s high-end case models, and here it has trickled down to mainstream pricing. Of course, in a build like this, you may want to install a vertical video card, but this case isn’t suited for that. The Y50’s lower price meant Hyte had to remove the spendy PCI Express riser cable and vertical bracket that its Y60 included. Also, the PCI Express card mounting zone is designed for “ordinary”-orientation GPU installs.
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On the upside, the Y50 RGB has one more fan than the Y60, and the new fan configuration is all—as the name implies—digitally addressable RGB (technically, ARGB). Plus, for its three stacked fans, Hyte uses a reversed-blade fan design, allowing the Y50 RGB to hide its fan motors on the inlet side. All three of these fans are joined by a triple-fan frame at the front of the case’s right side. That keeps cabling clean and easy.
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External connectors follow a familiar layout, with the power button inside a lighted power-indicator ring, two USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports to its sides, a headset combo jack, and a Gen 2×2 Type-C port, all squeezed into the slanted outer edge of the case’s front bottom. The 3.5mm combo jack works with both stereo headphones and microphone-integrated headsets.
Behind that panel, though, is another design curiosity: Hyte sinks the floor to its right to make extra room for 360mm-format radiators up to 410mm long, raises the floor to its left to conceal bottom-mounted fans up to 32mm thick (these you’d have to provide yourself), and makes the center section wide enough (around 4 inches) to display various choices of novelty—if so desired.
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The dual 120mm bottom fan mount is factory covered in the Y50 RGB’s only dust filter.
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Around back are the seven-slot card panel, a 120mm exhaust fan that you can adjust up and down, a power supply flange in the right side chamber, and a decoratively plated Hyte logo case badge. The two screws beneath the case badge secure an internal drive cage.
A pattern of vents on the Y50 RGB’s right side-panel covers its triple-fan mount from top to bottom, then turns toward the rear to vent the power supply.
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The Y50 RGB’s top fan mount is unusual in that it has three rows of screw slots on both its left and right sides. Using the outer mounts lets you fit up to two 140mm fans or a 280mm-format radiator, but smaller 120mm units fit in all three locations. While we’d generally recommend installing a 360mm-format radiator toward the outside to gain more motherboard clearance, doing so limits radiator space (behind the front’s angled glass) to 400mm. Moving that same 360mm-format radiator inward one slot gives it 410mm of space, and moving it all the way in gives it 420mm of space.
Having considered those measurements, we still found that a radiator around 406mm long fit the outer slots, simply because the radius at the edge of its end cap just cleared the angled glass.
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Notice how some of the cable passages that surround the motherboard tray in previous photos disappear in the dead-on shot. That’s because Hyte filled those holes with plastic guides that only face upward from the top of the board and forward from its front. Lacking those guides, holes around the outer edge of the motherboard tray are actually designed for reverse-connector full-ATX motherboards of the Asus BTF, Gigabyte Stealth, and MSI Project Zero type.
Viewing the interior from this angle should quell most concerns about top-mounted cooler clearance, seeing as the large gap (more than 70mm) above the motherboard mounting area is clearly visible.
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A quick look into the power supply chamber gives us a better inkling of the shape of those cable guides. You can also see the drive cage that sits above the power supply bay and the cable passages that feed the side fans.
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The cage has space for two 3.5-inch and two 2.5-inch drives. The 3.5-inch drive section has a few extra holes to allow up to four 2.5-inch drives to be mounted on one edge. The entire piece can hold up to six 2.5-inch drives if desired.
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