Assembly

Installing the motherboard is done by traditional means, with the use of spacers, screws, and appropriate tool. As you can see, the compact nature of the T60-SFX will limit the CPU cooler's height. Yet a low profile cooler will fit without issue, while an 80 mm tower could also be squeezed in. Sacrifice the HDD tray on the side and a 92 mm variant may also find enough space. One of the unique aspects of this chassis is the fact that it may hold a GPU of up to 263 mm in length, which is enough for a high-end unit.


The single 3.5" hard drive tray is simple but functional. It can hold a large, affordable spinning drive as well.


To install an SSD, you will first have to remove the tray. Now, add the drive and apply the screws ID-Cooling supplied; that is, before placing the plate back on the side. While this all works well, it does make accessing the motherboard difficult, which makes me wonder why ID-Cooling did not utilize the floor of the chassis for additional mounting possibilities. A simple rubber-ringed mounting hole would have raised any mounting possibilities on the ground by just enough to allow for airflow, and two drives would have easily fit without blocking the fans on a long graphics card.


Installing the SFX PSU bears no surprises. We used Silverstone's fully modular 600W unit. Due to the solid front panel, the unit was installed with its fan facing inward, which made connecting the power cable quite the ordeal as we had to squeeze it in there, but everything worked out in the end.


With everything in place and the cables zip tied together as nicely as possible, you will notice that most of the motherboard is rather difficult to reach, which is to be expected from a chassis of this size, but it would have been also nice had ID-Cooling included a few cable ties right out of the box.

Finished Looks

With everything closed up, the T60-SFX actually makes a very good impression. The power button lights up nicely as well, with its blue LED underneath.


You won't be able to get a glimpse of anything within the chassis through the front as the panel there is solid. All the connectors in the rear are where you would expect them to be as the layout is quite traditional, which is hardly surprising since the T60-SFX mimics a mid-tower's placement scheme.