Internal Features:
Below we see an overview of the case's insides. Fairly generic looking grey steel, and all of the fans come wired with enough lead to reach anywhere you need them to. In addition, the front panel wires are all pre-installed, with the USB and audio leads being supplied with some heavy duty rubber sheathing.
The below left image shows the back of the case where we see the black 80mm exhaust, the only non-LED fan provided with the case. It would have been nice to have all of the fans be the same, and one more LED fan would have added nicely to the visual effect when powered up. In this image we can also see the tool-less PCI slot mechanism, which we will look at closer in a bit.
 
The above right image shows the drive bay area, and note that there is no tool-less feature here. All of my recent cases have had tool-less drive bays, so this aspect was a bit of a let down. Even on a budget case, the tool-less features are quite common, and really do come in handy. At this point I also inspected the quality of the steel used to build the case... It is thinner than I am used to on recent cases, and only minimal pressure is required to make it flex, and in some cases bend. The drive cage area could easily be bent into different positions, and the case as a whole could be flexed without too much effort. Even the side panels were less rigid than I was used to, but then again, I have not reviewed any sub-$50 case/PSU combinations in a long time.
Speaking of the side panel, here we have some shots of the inner surface of it. You have an LED fan mounted near the center, as well as a duct positioned to allow air to be drawn in by your CPU cooler. This duct comes with a removable adaptor which can be used to match up to larger fans on your CPU cooler, but the height it creates may be a problem. In my testing, the CPU cooler was too tall to use the adaptor, although the 92mm fan on my cooler might have matched up to this adaptor well with just a few more centimeters of clearance.
 
Finally, we take a look up at the top of the case... Here we see another 80mm LED fan, as well as the power supply's 120mm fan. IN the next section we will take a closer look at the power supply, but the early overview looks promising... It at least has the right styling to tell you it might be a modern offering ready for today's high power systems.
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