Assembly

Installing the mainboard is done quickly as you simply secure the board on the little "pyramids" of the mainboard tray. Since the chassis is quite compact, you will have to watch out that your graphics card does not exceed roughly 300 mm in length, but there is plenty of space for the large CPU cooler as long as you don't place a fan in the top spot of the side panel.


Installing the hard drive means prepping the trays first. They ship bare, so that you need to apply the rubber rings first, then place the drive in the tray and secure it with the special screws. Once done you can slide the unit back into place, which requires a lot of force. Best way to do it, seems to pull the middle portion of the tray so the edges collapse a bit. Upside is - of course - that you won't have to worry about the drives during transportation.


Installing the optical drive is extremely easy and does not require any tools. Simply take off the clipped covers of the desired bay, slide the drive in and push the neon green pins down. This holds the entire drive well enough.


Once everything is installed, the case makes a clean impression. I was able to route and hide the cables nicely but you will have to invest quite a bit of work when filling this compact chassis to the rim.

Finished Looks

Even with the cables below the mainboard tray, I had no trouble closing the side panel. Overall the BUC makes a pretty cool impression. The three hard drive bays are accessible, but very hard to pull out and push back in. It took me some serious force to do so and the chassis had to held tightly so that it would not start sliding around on the table. When looking at the lighting theme, the blue and red LEDs may not have been the best choice, but the lit up logo looks pretty cool nonetheless.


The optical drives are a bit recessed due to the outer design of the BUC and there is a slight bleed of the blue light at the cracks, but nothing major. Everything is accessible in the rear and the USB 3.0 cable reaches far enough to connect to the rear of the mainboard, but you may be hard pressed to use an expansion card, but the PCIe x1 slot of a modern board should be within reach.