A look at the Inside
Pt. 2
Looking at
the inside of the case at this angle you can catch a peak of
the two
top mounted 140mm TriCool fans. To the left is the
5.25 drive bay which will hold a total of four optical
drives, these drives are held in place the rails that are
attached to each drive and then the drive is slid into the
drive cage where it will accept the optical drive or
whatever 5.25" device you happen to be installing.
Directly below
5.25" drive bays are one of the 3.5" removable drive cages
which are taken out by removing the visible thumb-screw and
the then unsnapping the ring and pulling straight out on the
cage. You can not misalign the drive cages since they
have plastic guides on both the top and both of the
cage. When you go to mount your hard
drives inside the removable slide-out trays anti-vibration
hardware is provided.
At the bottom of the case we have
another Tri-Cool 120mm fan that helps keep the bottom partition
operating in a safe operating temperature. Mounted in front of it
is the other 3.5" removable drive cage which removes in the same manner
as the other drive cage did. You can see the silicon bushing
mounted in slots on the drive cage, these are used to prevent any type
of vibration from originating from this drive cage. Above it is
the slot where you can mount a floppy drive or any type of device
that fits in a single 3.5 slot.
Here is the handy lid that can be
unscrewed to help you organize your wires and cables and then once
everything has been arranged the way you want it just put the lid back
into position and place the two screw back on it. The is also a
smaller removable lid up near the bottom drive cage which will come in
handy in the event that is where you wish to place all of your hard
drives and then you need a means of getting power and data cables down
to them.
Looking at the front of the case you
can see where I have one of the drive cages partially pulled out of it's
slide-in position. Looking at it from this angle you can see small
black storage box that comes in handy for the placement of screws and
other small items.
At the rear of the case we
have seven slot that should provide you with more than
enough space to install all the video or accessory cards
that you will need. As a means of generating even more
air flow through the case each of the slot covers have four
slots cut in them to allow the case to remain at a constant
pressure when it is powered up. As we had mentioned
earlier the two holes through which your water cooling
tubing may pass has already been treated with a nice rubber
gourmet insuring that the tubing does not get damaged as it
pass through the holes.
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