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Installation

Installing the motherboard, CPU and ram in this case was extremely simple. For this machine we installed a ASUS P5K Premium, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 and 2GB Corsair XMS2 6400 RAM.

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The first procedure was to install the extra motherboard standoffs that our motherboard needed. This was extremely easy and the holes ended up lining up perfectly with the motherboard we installed. However, we noticed one thing, if you install the motherboard without the PSU being in, you will not be able to get the PSU in again- you’ll have to remove the motherboard again.

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The next step for us was to install all of the drives. This is pretty easy, screw the sliders onto each side of the drives and then slide the drive into place from the front. They will click into position and are extremely stable when installed

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Installing a hard drive into this case was also a breeze. As we opted out of the ‘suspending hard drive’ idea, all we did was screwed the hard drive to the bottom of the tray using the screws supplied and then slid the tray into position.

All that was left after that was to connect up all the cables and install the expansion cards which were also a breeze.

Here’s a shot of our Intel Test system installed.

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