Internal Design

Removing four thumbscrews on the large left side panel gets you inside the tòu. At that place is a second smaller console which also needs to be removed to install the ability supply. For a first fourth dimension installation, you lot'll also want to remove the ii panels on the reverse side also every bit the two at the rear.

For all its attention grabbing greatness on the outside in that location is surprisingly very little to heighten your curiosity on the inside.

You get three tabs that are designed to back up 3.5" or 2.5" drives forth with room to mount a pair of 2.5" drives on the back console. In that location is too that 5.25" drive bay at the very bottom which nosotros used to tuck away excess cables.

You won't need a motherboard I/O shield when building in the tòu -- or at to the lowest degree yous won't exist able to apply information technology every bit in that location isn't a mounting spot for ane. In this instance, non having a motherboard I/O shield isn't necessarily a bad affair as information technology isn't exactly required with the rear glass panel.

In that location are seven expansion slots for PCI/PCIe cards and room for an ATX power supply upwards to 220mm long.

Keeping things absurd is a unmarried front mounted 120mm intake fan which is fixed into place using a condom strap of all things. Then at the acme there are three 120mm frazzle fans and room to support a 360mm radiator for liquid cooling, because in this case you know you want to.

Equally limited equally the interior features are, that sand-cast aluminum frame is pretty impressive and measures up to 4mm thick in parts. The motherboard tray, which is also quite solid, has a number of cutouts for cables. Although they are not lined with rubber grommets that doesn't matter every bit the edges are very smooth.

While there are cutouts for cable management, In Win somehow disregarded the all-important CPU hole in the motherboard tray. This huge oversight can be corrected with a trivial modding, but for the price we would take expected In Win to do most of the work for you.

In our mind In Win has besides let the tòu down a bit with the pre-installed wiring. While much of information technology is braided and looks bang-up, the ends of the fan cabling aren't and the method that In Win uses to connect all fans up to the controller is extremely messy. Once again, for the money this is something that should accept come up pre-installed all keen like.

The skillful news notwithstanding is that backside the motherboard tray there is loads of infinite to hide cables, though those fan cables nosotros only spoke of cannot be hidden hither due to the location of the fan controller.

Given that the tòu is meant to be a show piece nosotros understand why they accept taken a very minimalist approach inside and why there is but room for three three.v" drives. This is not a server style case and cramming it full of hard drives would just backbite from the design.

Moreover, three 4TB drives volition allow for a organization storage capacity of 12TB, which we feel is plenty for gamers and power users. Any more than that and something similar a dedicated NAS is a much better pick. There is also room for a pair of SSDs too and so keep that in mind.