Assembly

There is plenty of space around the mainboard. Even the large Prolimatech Super Mega easily fits. Users of large graphic cards should not have to worry either, as Spire has thought of that by making the Sentor 6004 quite deep. The plastic clips of the expansion bay perform as expected. While they do clip into place, these do not have the power to really hold such a graphic card in place properly. As a result one can move the expansion card around quite a bit, even when locked down.


Spire utilizes plastic trays to hold the hard drives in place. These are quite good and seem to secure the storage devices nicely within the system. The tool-less approach is great, but these cannot hold a 2.5 inch SSD, which is something that other cases with the same trays tend to offer these days. On the bright side, Spire has mentioned that they will not void your warranty if you choose to mod these trays yourself (as in drill holes) to install a 2.5 inch drive. That is pretty cool and customer-friendly stuff if you ask me, but I cannot really suggest that you risk this to gain such functionality.


To gain access to the drive bay cover you have to remove the entire front and pop up the cover of your choice. Once done, simply slide in the optical drive and lock it down with the plastic clips on the side. While these do hold such a device in place, there is still a bit of play, which is most likely due to the simplicity of the system. This type of mechanism has evolved over the years and we have seen implementations which can replace screws permanently, but I do suggest you use traditional means to hold the drive in place within the Sentor 6004.


Installing the power supply is nothing out of the ordinary. Simply use the included screws to secure it. Thanks to the foam lining, vibrations should be kept to a minimum in this part of the chassis.


Once everything is installed, it becomes evident that the plastic clips are in fact no match for the rigid power supply cables and as a result, the interior does look quite messy. In the rear there are basically no cables present. There is simply no way to route any of them in this area of the enclosure.

Finished Looks

Once everything was in place, I wanted to close the side panel up, but as it turns out, the Super Mega collides with the top left fan in the side panel. You could either remove that unit or opt for a smaller CPU cooler. Spire has included so many fans to go for maximum cooling capabilities. Having to install a smaller CPU cooler in turn will negate that benefit.


Turned on, the chassis looks pretty cool with all these fans. We have seen cases before, which had many such unit pre-installed, but the Sentor 6004 is noisy. In fact, it is probably the loudest chassis I have ever reviewed up to this point. If you want to use this case and all its fans, I strongly suggest investing in a fan controller. On the upside, such a setup will definitely cool things nicely within the chassis, but it becomes apparent, that this is more of a server/workstation chassis after all.


The blue LED fans look pretty sweet and you can see them emitting light from all openings of the chassis. As there are no dust filters on the sides, the Sentor 6004 will start collecting dust like a vacuum fairly quickly.