Accessories:

Chieftec makes sure the user has all the necessary accessories to have a successful installation experience. A detailed user manual is included, and while many will find this unnecessary, it is helpful for the novice. There are three Velcro cable ties, two of which are used to tie back the cables going to your LCD monitor. The third can be used however the user desires. Finally, a bag of screws, standoffs, and paper washers is also included. Everything you need to complete the install.



As this is a fairly unique install, I did feel that it would be nice if one additional accessory was included; a short VGA and/or DVI cable would be extremely helpful, and would help keep the installation cleaner.

Installation:

Chieftec has included two types of rubber coated screws. For your 3.5" hard drives they have included black screws, and white screws for your 5.25" devices. Once the appropriate screw is on your drive, you can easily slide it into place. There is a little plastic mechanism on the side of the drive bay to lock it into place.



My first mistake during installation was around the power supply. I installed the motherboard first, which wasn't an issue. However, the CPU cooler hangs over the side of the motherboard. This caused issues with installing the power supply, which was probably the- most difficult thing to install. It has a heavy duty cable wrapping where the cables exit the power supply housing, and there are several unused rails (three additional PCI-E, four-pin "Molex", SATA, and eight-pin motherboard). These were rather difficult to hide behind the power supply.



The second mistake was hiding the cables. As difficult as hiding the extra power supply cables is, make sure you know exactly which ones you need before trying to hide them! Of course if you don't try to hide them, then you won't have to worry about this.