A Closer Look
Here on the bottom of the case we find the first of the filters, it is easily removable by pulling on the handle on the right side there (that is the rear of the case).
A nice feature is that it is easily accessible even with the case upright.
Here we see an eSATA port, headphone/microphone ports, two USB2.0 ports and two USB3.0 ports, additionally there is a HDD dock! The dock happily accepts 2.5″ and 3.5″ drives, and if you have your BIOS set to AHCI mode it is hot-swap compatible as well.
The gray button on the left is reset, on the right is power.
Both the top and the front fans are Thermaltake 200mm blue LED jobs. Additionally there is room on the top for a second 200mm fan (and screw holes for a variety of small sizes), as well as room for a 200mm fan on the case side panel.
Last of the fans is the rear 120mm exhaust fan, it is a Thermaltake fan as well.
Pretty snazzy blades on that thing!
Inside the case is an accessory packet:
Two Molex-Fan power adapters, a piezo speaker, some screws, some reusable cable ties (THANK YOU!), a manual and a CPU power cable extender.
It is hard to describe how happy I am to see someone thinking about the end user and including reusable cable ties instead of the normal one-use-then-cut flavor.
The screw bag has all sorts of screws:
The long screws are for installing a second top fan, the black motherboard standoffs match the case nicely, black fine pitch and coarse pitch thread standard internal screws are nice as well. The wide headed characters are for mounting HDDs, which we’ll look at shortly.
