Assembly

Installing the mainboard is an easy task, as you just use the included spacers along with the black screws to secure it in place. As you can see the only two openings of the main board tray are partially covered by the board itself, further restricting how you can hide and route things within the chassis. On the upside the large Prolimatech Super Mega cooler along with the 140 mm Vortex fan actually fits inside the chassis without any issue.


Installing the hard drives - be it 2.5 or 3.5 inch, is not so painless. While the SSD can be placed in to the chassis without issue, Cubitek has simply not accounted for the connectors to be facing towards the motherboard, making it nearly impossible to hook things up. I was lucky due to the fact that my SATA power connector is rather short, but that may not be the case with the one found on your PSU. I do not understand why Cubitek did not simply center the four holes in the flooring as this would have solved the problem and given the user plenty of space for any eventuality - especially since that has nothing to do with tooling.

Installing the hard drives with the connector facing the mainboard seems possible at first sight, but upon closer inspection you can see that they reach too far out the other side, making it impossible to connect any cables to the drive. This forces you to make them face toward the window, making it even harder to achieve a clean look inside the PC. Overall, the interior - while very cool looking with the black and red colors - is simply outdated.


Placing the optical drive within the case is very simple and can be performed without the use of any tools. Just take out the mesh front cover, push the drive into place and lock things down with the black slider. It actually holds rather well and there is no need to use a screw if you do not plan to move the system much.


There is still plenty of space for the power supply and you should have no problems installing a large unit in this area of the chassis.


One all the parts are installed, I tried cleaning things up as good as humanly possible. Most of the cables have remained inside the case while only a fraction are routed behind the mainboard tray. There is simply no space to hide more anywhere. For what is possible, the result is not bad, but not nearly as clean as what can be done with other cases.

Finished Looks

Once turned on, the case makes a cool impression with the red LEDs shining through the metal mesh in front and on top. Since both fans are placed on the outer side of the hull, not much of the lighting enters the insides of the case so that you are will require additional light sources to make everything count.


Even when turing off the lights in the room you can barely see the LEDs from the outside of the chassis. That said, the three fans are not the quietest ones we have had the pleasure to find within a chassis.