Installation

So far I have the impression that installing shouldn't be much of a problem. Of course this doesn't mean I didn't try.
On the motherboard tray all the holes are numbered. There is also a sticker saying what numbers should be used for mATX or ATX. This made me wonder if it would be correct, it was. So it is safe to say that anyone who can read a manual could install a motherboard in this case.
As for the rest of the hardware there is nothing special. The screwless installation makes things very fast. To install a 5.25" or 3.5" drive you simple put a piece of plastic on the side which holds the device using two plastic pins on each side. You can then simply slide them into place and they are installed.

Unfortunately it is required to remove the front cover to install an external drive. It comes off quite easily though.

Often when you try to add a harddrive to a computer, some PCI card or your video card is in the way and you have to remove everything first. The fact that the 3.5" internal bays are rotated 90 degrees makes installing a new harddrive a piece of cake, nothing will be in the way.

At a certain point you have to connect the front ports and buttons. The buttons are no problem, but the cables of the ports are a little short. I tried working them away by putting them right next to the motherboard but unfortunately this wasn't as easy as I thought. A few more centimeters would make it a lot easier to work away the cables nicely. It is a bit unclear how to connect the header of the USB ports but if you take the time to read the manual it is explained there very well.

Cooling problem

Because during the whole review I felt some cooling was lacking, I decided to see if I was right. The hottest piece of hardware in the system is a Geforce 6800LE with an Arctic cooling NV5 cooler. At full load it gets up to 60°C. I built it in the VB6000 with the rest of its system and checked the temps again. At full load it seems to get up to 72°C. The main reason for this is that the air it uses to cool the chip is stuck between the card itself, the side panel and three 10K SCSI disks. as shown here:

When taking away the side panel the maximum temperature is lowered to only 54 degrees at full load.
I believe that this problem can be fixed by drilling some holes in the side panel and adding a cooler that gives some fresh air to cool the card. I can't modify the case until this review is released, but expect an update on this.