A Closer Look - Inside

Taking a closer look at the rear fan, it holds the Apevia logo on the center sticker. The company really loves these semi transparent blue fans, as they can be found in many of their cases. The PCI brackets are covered with removable dust guards and there is a simple screw-less system in place to hold any expansion cards. This system should work well with smaller and lighter graphic cards, but you may want to screw dual slot ones in, as the plastic is not sturdy enough to keep them in place - especially during transportation.


Moving to the front of the case, the drive bays also feature an all plastic screw-less design. The system used is of the "slide and lock" variant. Which means you simply slide in the drive, slide the plastic part back to secure the drive and then lower the lock to keep the plastic in place. This exact system can be found in many different cases from various manufacturers. As mentioned before, the hard drive cage, which can hold three drives uses rails. This makes for a complete screw less installation for expansion cards as well as drives. The drive cage has been turned 90°, leaving more room for large graphic cards. This means that cards like the GeForce 8800 GTX and Ultra should fit perfectly fine.


The I/O on top uses the traditional, removable cabling. Apevia has decided to only provide a HD-Audio header, so gamers with budget boards will be out of luck. The fan controller is used by plugging in the fans into the clearly labeled Molex connector. You may daisy chain a maximum of five fans, which will all be controlled by a single knob. This also means that you may not control each fan seperately. The mainboard connectors for power, reset and LEDs are of the normal kind as well.