External Examination (continued):

On the top of the case, you can see the huge mesh opening that will accommodate either two 120mm fans or a 240mm radiator if you wanted to go the water cooling route.



On the bottom of the case, Sentey has gone with a removable filter over the power supply area. Just in front of that area is another 120mm fan opening to increase the potential number of fans in the BX1-4284 to seven - that's a lot of air circulation.



The front panel of the case includes two USB 2.0 ports, microphone and headphone jacks, a fan speed controller, and reset and power buttons. Below the reset button is a red hard drive indicator light, and the power light is actually a blue ring that surrounds the power button.



An interesting note on the front panel is that unlike similar cases, the Sentey BX1-4284's top external drive bay uses a flip-down opener to 'stealth' an optical drive. You can see how the eject button is incorporated into the mesh face plate in the image below. In addition to the usual front panel leads (power, reset, power LED, etc) there are two 4-pin Molex connectors for the front panel - one marked power and one marked fan. Since there is no documentation on how these are supposed to be hooked up, there was a bit of trial and error involved in getting the fan controller to work.



Speaking of mesh, each of the three face plates has a dust filter on it. while they are not easily removed, you could bend the metal tabs to remove and rinse them off. The front panel also has the same dust filter material in front of it behind the intake fan, although removing it may take a bit more effort.