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Each side panel is removed with two thumbscrews on each side. The interior is painted black with sexy orange accenting on the rear expansion slots, fan blades and drive bays.
The interior is not going to break any new ground for radical design, but it is neat, well finished and looks very appealing. Xigmatek have rounded all the sharp edges to prevent any possible injury during a system build. There is also a CPU backplate hole and some routing locations. All of the nine 5.25 inch drive bays have plastic sliding locks on them. We found them a little fiddly to use to be honest, but they do the job.
There is a 120mm intake fan at the bottom which is attached to a drive bay. Three drives can be fitted here.
The 120mm and 170mm exhaust fans, to ensure heat gets removed from both rear and top locations.
The 5.35 to 3.5 inch adapter bracket can be used to mount devices, such as a USB 3.0 header bay as seen above.
All of the cables trail from the front I/O panel directly in the middle of the bays. We would have prefered if this was offset, for easier routing later in the build phase.
The power supply is mounted at the rear, and a fan can be added in front of it – Xigmatek have included a removable dust filter here.
The 7 expansion bays have retention clips which are made from orange coloured plastic. They certainly don't look as good as recent Lian Li designs, but considering the price differences this is to be expected.
The other side of the case is a simple enough design with a few routing areas and a huge cut out for easy processor back plate mounting.
Again, hard to fault with the price. Just never understood their weird naming conventions.
They are from the netherlands, as far as I know. which would explain the fantasy style nonsense they always factor into their designs.
Actual product seems pretty solid for the cost. about same price as thermaltake armor cases and I think this looks better
Great review, love the cooling tests on this site.
Overall design is good, why two esatas? not that im complaining, but that is really weird to see on a front panel.
I quite like it, but I agree with the side panel concerns. that looks a mess without it being populated.
It has a bit of a feeling of ‘coolermaster HAF’ about it. not sure if thats just me tho. I quite like it. the orange accenting looks cool.
Great timing for this, our local store has these on sale for £49.99 and I had no idea if it was crap or not. The box looks terrible and I thought it was a chinese knock off.
They really need to work on their box artwork. I shall pick this up tomorrow.
Nice too see them putting so much front panel connecivity in place. i hate it when a case comes without ports at front. I have about 4 devices I have connected most of the time. I never use esata tho. but it cant hurt.