Assembly

Installing a motherboard is done by traditional means as you have to use spacers and screws to hold the board in place. The 904's width forces you to watch the CPU cooler's height. We used our Phanteks cooler and it barely fit with a few millimeters to spare. However, there is a ton of space around the cooler itself. Long graphics cards will easily fit as well since there are no traditional 3.5" drive bays that get in the way, and even installing a single radiator here, space permitting, should allow you to go for at least a single GPU.


Installing a traditional 3.5" hard drive is quite easy and does not require any tools or screws. Simply pull the tray of your choice out, snap the drive into place, and slide the whole contraption back into the slot. The front cover also acts as a locking mechanism that holds it in place.


While you can also install an SSD into one of the above bays, In Win does include two 2.5" trays in the front. To use these, simply remove the tray of your choice, screwing the drive onto it with the screws In Win included. It does take a screwdriver to attach such a drive, but you only have to snap the tray back into place, tying it down with a spring-loaded screw, once the drive is in place. As such a drive's connectors will face away from the main side, you should be able to route cables around a bit to keep things as tidy as possible.


Installing an optical drive verges off the beaten path a bit as you have to slide the drive in pretty far, which exposes its connectors through the rear of the 904. You then route the PSU and data cables out the back through a cut-out between the chassis' interior and glass side panel to connect the unit to the system. Once attached, slide the drive forward to align it with the screw-holes, securing it with the screws In Win included.


Installing the PSU is fairly straightforward as you only have to install it with the fan facing upward; it is secured with black screws.


With everything installed and in place, the interior of the chassis makes a fairly clean impression. This is due to the fact that all cables are routed to their appropriate connectors behind the motherboard tray. While this cable mess looks pretty bad, it can be improved upon if you really take the time and use the tools that In Win has given you, although that wasn't necessary in our case as all cables were held in place nicely with the use of cable ties.

Finished Looks

Which design element is paramount in this chassis definitely becomes apparent once the glass side panels are put back into place with a bit of tough love and the full unit has been turned on. Nothing in the front disturbs the clean, brushed look; that is, except for a stylish white In Win logo. Interestingly enough, one is not supposed to use the motherboard backplate cover with this chassis, so the connectors there are left bare, but that is fine as the rear panel will cover everything up nicely.


The glass panels' fairly dark tint nicely hides the cable clutter unless you look at the panel rather intently, which is perfectly fine as a bit of industrial glimmer here and there suits the chassis' clean exterior. The same would go for a water-cooling radiator in the back, for example.


The logo is, as you can see, situated right around the corner of the power button. A small blue LED on the side tells you whether your system is up and running, and one can see and access the ODD on the floor of the case without much fanfare, but it does take some getting used to, and placing the 904 on the ground is not a terribly sound idea as it would make reaching the ODD a difficult endeavor.


You cannot discern any of the connectors in the rear with the panel installed. Even routing the usual cables out the back allows you to route the connectors through the large opening on the bottom or the slim one on the very top, which is pretty nifty.