A Closer Look - Outside

Taking a look at the chassis, the first thing you will notice is the color choice: It is a light gray, which I personally would describe as "asphalt-like". It does not look bad at all—on the contrary. You won't find any round parts in the case design, with the exception of the power button. All its other aspects are completely straight and at times asymmetrical, giving the GRone a very menacing look that fits it quite well.


Looking at the front of the chassis, it becomes apparent that the GRone is quite wide when compared to other cases. The entire front is made up of drive bays, while the individual covers are out of metal mesh and plastic. You will find everything where you would expect it to be in the rear, with the PSU bay located on the bottom of the chassis. A cool-looking, blue-tinted window that extrudes beyond the chassis can be found on the main side panel. The other side is completely flat, but features an air vent for a single 120 mm fan cooling the underside of an installed motherboard.


Each of the external drive bays comes with its own cover. These are spring-loaded covers, which allows you to easily remove each by pushing the two buttons within the cover together. Even though they all look the same, only the top three are individual covers for the external drives. The bottom five make up one big cover for the internal drives. Each cover also comes with built-in dust filters, so you won't have to worry about dirt entering the case through the front. Above these is the I/O panel, where you will not only find the power and reset buttons, but also two USB 2.0 and two USB 3.0 plugs, the usual audio I/O, and a fan controller with two settings: "Silent" and "Turbo".


The aforementioned bottom-mounted PSU bay in the rear comes with two sets of mounting holes, giving you the choice of installing a power supply with the fan facing up or down. Above that are the eight motherboard-expansion slots, each protected by an individual cover. A large air vent runs up the right side of the PSU bay and these expansion slots. In the very top are a 140 mm fan that blows hot air out the back of the chassis and four rubberized openings to route water-cooling tubes out the back with ease.


In Win has placed a basic SATA port in the top of the GRone, which makes connecting bare drives to the chassis easy. The connector is protected by a silicone cover I had to lift up to reveal it, so please excuse my fingers as my career as a hand model took a turn for the worse recently. Behind this bay is a large air vent for the ceiling-mounted fans to easily push hot air out the top of the chassis.


Two dust filters on the underside of the case protect the interior from unwanted dirt. Both of these are essentially fine metal mesh filters that may be removed for easy cleaning.