The number one
factor in my decision to get this case was airflow. This case is
the master of airflow. With room for up to 9 fans without
modification, there will be no hot components concealed in this
bitch.
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The case included 2
fans, one front 120m for intake and a 80mm fan blowing directly on to the
CPU. The are places four 6 more 80mm fans, 4 exhausting the drive cage, 1
blowing air over the HDD area, and one exhausting from the area above the
PSU. There is also room for a 92mm fan exhausting from the CPU
area. There is defiantly enough airflow for any moderate to hardcore
overclocker. If you look at the picture of the front intake, the 120mm
is a monster, and with its size, it makes some noise. I did not take
any official benchmarks, but I did see a drop of about 1 -2 degrees celsius on
my CPU directly. This is probably contributed to the 80mm FAN blowing
directly on the CPU.
Expandability
is not a problem in this case with room for up to 6 5-1/4 drives. The
case only allows for 1 3-1/2 drive, which would be occupied by your
floppy. The floppy space is at the top, so your floppy cable might ot
be able to reach that high. I had no problem, though it was a little
tight.
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The motherboard area is removable and will
fit anything even the largest extended ATX boards. To remove the
motherboard try, you loosen three screws, and lift. It slides out
easily since it is on a track. One screw, I feel is poorly placed.
With a regular screwdriver, the screw is nearly inaccessible. But this
is only a small grip, and really doesn’t matter since you should only have
to deal with this screw once. The motherboard tray uses square clips
to lift the motherboard off the tray. I found these easier to word with
then the brass lugs for they do not loosen when you try and remove the
motherboard from the tray. This case is plenty big enough to work in,
and there are really no tight spaces. The CPU fan does add a hindrance
when you want to add DIMMS to your motherboard, for you must remove
it. But Addtronics was thinking ahead because they made it removable by
only one screw.
