A Closer Look - Inside

To gain access to the interior of the Geometric Model 5, simply pull the side covers off. The same holds true for the front glass with its corner missing accommodating the PSU bay.


In the front, on the side, there is a 140 mm ARGB intake fan with inverse blades underneath a solid metal cover, This cover is held in place by two thumb screws and may easily be removed if you do not want to have it inside your build. When in place it not only channels the airflow of the side intake fan but also acts a shelf where you could put a little mascot to spruce up your build for example. Above that, the branded, orange PSU box has a small opening on the bottom facing the rear of the chassis so that you may route your cables through here into the interior of the Model 5.


There is also a simple, but effective GPU support bracket installed next to the front intake fan. On the other side, underneath the PSU box, you will find another metal support beam held in place by two thumb screws. Besides being used to add rigidity to the chassis, you may use it as a cable cover on the orange PSU box or as a bracket to mount a fan blowing air unto the motherboard. Both the GPU support bracket and this beam are pretty tricky to detach and secure. In the case of this support beam, the action shots from Geometric Future clearly omit it, so one could argue that this is not really needed.


In the rear, the expansion slots use screws to hold each cover in place. These are technically located outside the confines of the chassis, but thanks to the cover on this part, they still feel nicely integrated. Above that, there is that 140 mm exhaust fan, with its slim embedded ARGB ring. As you can see here, the fans are meant to be daisy-chained, so there are some connectors on a short wire right at corner of each of this. While this is fine, it does add a bit of unnecessary clutter.


You may rotate the seven expansion slots by removing three screws to pop the entire plate out of the case and then secure them with the expansions slots vertically. The engineering is great and everything still feels nice and solid, especially for having all this perforation. Geometric Future makes a point in mentioning that the chassis uses 0.8 to 1.2 mm thick steel, which it clearly benefits from.


On the floor of the Model 5, there are three more 140 mm ARGB fans with reversed blades. The fact that this chassis ships with five such units included is pretty nice. Again, due to the wiring setup, there is really no way to hide these cables from view, but they should be hard to spot with a big GPU in the way once the system is fully assembled. Fortunately, there is just enough clearance so you should still be able to access all the ports on your motherboards bottom edge, even with these units pre-installed and pre-wired out-of-the-box. In the ceiling, there is that aforementioned space for up to three 140 mm fans or a 420 mm radiator. Above the motherboard, there are four more "O" shaped openings due to the fact that you can even install fans in this part of the case. While that is nice, it is quite the unnecessary feature. Instead, this surface area could have been used for allow for cleaner cable management or to include additional storage on the backside.


Speaking of these, they consist of two 120 mm mounting locations. The bottom two screws use a removable frame, while the top two screws of each fan are meant to be secured directly to the chassis. Another downside of this USP is the fact that you won't find any hooks for cable management in this part of the backside either unfortunately. The PSU bay is big enough to allow for units of up to 160 mm in size, with room to spare for your modular cables. This means that you should have plenty of great options to pick from, but the highest-end units will end up being too big for the space. During our install we also noticed that the orange paint scuffs really easily with paint transfers from the black unto its surface. While this is of no consequence on the interior of the bay, it would be unfortunate to have this occur on the exterior. Lastly, you will find two HDD trays, which each may hold either a 2.5" or 3.5" unit. This means that the Model 5 is limited to two drives, which is why we mentioned the better use of the space at the top for storage as well.


All the wiring within the Geometric Future Model 5 is black and both USB cables are of the flat kind, which will make routing them a bit easier. The case connectors are still individual plugs, whereas we see most brands using a singular unified connector these days. Naturally this is not a dealbreaker, but would have made this step of the installation process easier. The five fans are daisy-chained together and each have PWM as well as ARGB leads. There is a proprietary ARGB connector in-line of each of the cables, which adds a bit of bulk as well. If Geometric Future could somehow fit a PWM and ARGB PCB, that could also help with the wiring mess, but that would also mean tweaking the fans and getting rid of daisy-chaining and proprietary connections.