Test System

Assembly

Installing the motherboard is done by traditional means, using the included spacers and screws. There is a little bit of space for cable routing at the top of the board, while the bottom edge sits right on the shroud. Thanks to well placed openings in this cover, you are able to route all the wires here nicely as well. As you can see, there are virtually no restrictions on which GPU you can install as the Palit GeForce 2080 RTX easily fits.

On the flip side, you have to be a bit more aware of the CPU cooler limitations. According to their specification table, the Flyer should fit 120 mm towers with a maximum height of 160 mm.


Adding 3.5" drives requires you to mount rubber-ringed screws on the left side of the drive, before sliding it in and using thumb screws to secure the right side. While that is fine with no PSU present, you will be hard pressed to get any of the thumb screws towards the rear of the drive into place with the power supply in place.


Installing an SSD in one of the two spots is quite easy as you simply screw it down. The opening between the two allows you to route cables quite nicely as well.


Installing the PSU is pretty straightforward, with the use of four screws. There should be plenty of space to install modern units with 750-850 W capacity, which is more than enough for any system you could fit inside the Montech Flyer.


With everything in place, the interior of the Montech Flyer is as clean as you can expect, as all the leads disappear behind the motherboard tray quite nicely.

Finished Looks

Once the cover is back in place and the system is turned on, a tiny blue LED lights up in the top of the chassis to let you know the system is up and running. In the front, the RGB strip lights up as well.


As you can see, the dark side panel doesn't really allow you to view any of the hardware, and even the ADATA memory or RGB strip on the GPU are barely visible. In the rear, everything is where you would expect it—no surprises here.


Thanks to the built-in RGB controller, you are able to toggle the front RGB strip through a large array of animations with all kinds of color combinations, or select one of seven solid hues. The strip is sufficiently bright as you can still see it well in our brightly lit photo studio.