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Internal Impressions

The case’s insides are split into two main chambers. The bottom chamber holds the power supply and hard drives whilst the upper chamber holds all of the main components. The motherboard mounting plate in this case is fixed and therefore cannot be removed. However the case is certainly large enough to work in so you won’t really need a removable motherboard plate.

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The other side of the motherboard plate has many holes and ties which should help you to route all your cables around the case to keep it free of cable clutter. Also there is a small black box which can be opened and used to store accessories such as spare screws cable ties etc.

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Here is the side panel with the 200mm fan reversed. If we slide the fan off slightly you can see a large filter which will catch a lot of the dust. This filter is like the filters on the front of the case and can be cleaned relatively easily. Also the reversed side of the side panel you can see the plastic that backs it to reduce noise.

Inside there is space to install up to 4 optical drives. The drives are installed with the optical drive rails which are included so they can be slid into position.

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Below these drive cages is space to install 3 Hard Drives, the bays for these hard drives can be slid out easily and they have anti vibration rubber installed to reduce noise from the hard drives. In front of these bays is a 120mm front fan which will cool the hard drives to an appropriate temperature.

Beneath these hard drives mounts is a mount to install either a floppy drive or card reader. This mount doesn’t have anti vibration dampeners like the hard drive mounts, although it probably doesn’t need it.

The bottom chamber has another hard drive bay with the availability to install up to 4 hard drives. Just like the previous bay, this bay also has anti vibration rubber which sits between the hard drive and bay to reduce noise. Behind this bay is yet another 120mm Fan.

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The two power supplies are not joined together but are screwed next to each other via the back panel. They are linked together with a wire which ensures that both Power Supplies start up at the same time and shut down at the same time. The 550 Watt Power Supply has only SATA and Molex plugs, but also has sockets on which can be used to add yet more Molex plugs to the PSU.

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