Assembly

Installing the motherboard is done by traditional means, with the use of screws and spacers. The aluminum rods also easily allow you to reach every connector. The D-Frame Mini is wide enough to fit a 120 mm tower cooler as In Win mentions a maximum height of 165 mm. As you can see, the board's position has been rotated by 90°, which puts the GPU into a vertical instead of a horizontal position.


Installing a hard drive will have take the tray of your choice off before using the supplied screws to pin the drive onto the tray. In Win has gone all out and used very thick aluminum for these, which is in line with the overall quality of the case.


Once filled, simply put these back into place, and screw the thumbscrews back into the aluminum plate, which will secure the tray. All the connectors point away from the onlooker, so you should be able to keep things rather clean.


We chose to install the PSU with its power connector and switch facing upward as all its individual cables will then come out though the bottom and go straight into the interior. There is plenty of space for long units, so you may install a power supply of up to 220 mm in length.


The D-Frame Mini's interior - if you can call it that - makes a great and clean impression once everything is in place. You do have to invest some extra time into routing everything nicely, but the result is certainly worth it as you can secure all the leads onto the backside of the motherboard tray nicely with the clips In Win supplies.

Finished Looks

With the glass panels back in place and the system up and running, the D-Frame Mini looks really sexy. The blue power LED embedded into the silver power button lights up as well - not that you need any feedback to figure out whether the PC has been turned on.



The nature of the chassis bears everything inside for the world to see, but as I mentioned with the original D-Frame, the chassis' industrial look and feel go splendidly with the naked look of the cables and all that is within.