Installation & Finished Look

Here you can see the hard drive cage, with all the folded edges. Even the round cut outs are not very sharp. The cage is fixed by one screw on the bottom, shown here. The rails for the hard drive can be installed without any screws as well. This makes the installation of all the drives inside the case completely screwless.


Installing all the other hardware has to be done the old fashioned way. The CPU cooler and memory was mounted on the board and then inserted into the case. The 4 pin CPU power plug was quite hard to reach with the short cable of the OEM power supply, but any brand name PSU should not have such a problem. The front IO cables were very long, actually a bit too long. As you can see I used an Arctic Cooling Silencer, which made the use of the air duct impossible. The case has a lot of space under the mainboard, so even the use of larger "flower" style coolers should not be a problem, and considering that these HSFs are usually not very high, the air duct would come in quite handy. In my case after unmounting the air duct, the side panel fit on perfectly.


I used black drives to illustrate the nice contrast to the silver and the great overall look with the black fan grill. Even the white floppy looks quite good inside this case. The back is now filled as well. The power supply fit perfectly and the case is sturdy enough to hold everything in place. Nothing to complain about here.


After turning on the PC, I was greeted by two bright blue LEDs. The top one is the power LED and the bottom one lights up with hard drive use. Blue LEDs look fabulous with this case.