Case Inside

When the case is first opened you'll find a box containing all the hardware as showed earlier. All the wiring used is neatly tied up, and nothing is loose in the case to prevent damage during shipping.


The hard drive bays are positioned 90 degrees to the 5.25" drive bays and can fit up to three drives. When the other side panel is popped off, you can see how GIGABYTE already took steps on making the wiring neat for this case. GIGABYTE also included cable tie downs, and hooks to make wiring the case neatly real easy.


GIGABYTE aimed at making a near tool-less case, with quick releases on the PCI slots and the drive bays. Only thing tools are needed for are mounting the motherboard and PSU unit. Video cards, HDDs, and all drive bay accessories can easily be changed in the case without tools.


An adjustable fan duct is mounted on the side panel to help channel cool air to the processor. Only trouble with these are that they rarely ever work with any after market coolers. With stock coolers, they help a bit (if the motherboard's socket is placed in such a way that it lines up).


The front panel comes off to allow the installation of drives. When you first take it off, you'll find a couple pieces of Styrofoam to help further protect the case in transit.


When the front panel is off, drives can be installed and drive bay blanks can be removed to allow additional drives. The USB/Firewire hub and audio hubs are mounted directly on the chassis, which makes removing the front panel easy, unlike some cases where the wires run into the panel making it a real pain to remove.


Most of the wires are sleeved to keep things neat and tidy. This is one of the things on the Triton 180 that impressed me most; the fact that GIGABYTE did a very good job on tying wires down and sleeving them for the user. The usual USB, HD Audio/Realtek audio outputs are found along with Firewire. There is an adapter for the Firewire that allows for three different pinouts for different headers.