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Product Application:

ATX Gaming Case

Product Provided by:

AeroCool

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

About $130

Availability:

Available now

Review by:

Scott

Edited by:

Paul

Review date:

December 5th, 2006

 

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     The front door of the case is solid aluminum with a large screened vent in the center. There is an access hole cut in the top of the door so you can use the front media ports while the door is closed. You can still open and close the door with USB cords and headphone plugged in, but you still have to fumble with the cords to open or close the door due to the location of the media ports.

     As you'll notice from the photo of the rear of the case, the motherboard mounts in the left side of the case which puts the motherboard upside-down. AeroCool has also placed the power supply mount in the very bottom of the case. There is a large vent in the rear of the case with room for a 120mm cooling fan, but it's not included.

     Under the front door you'll find nine 5.25" drive bays. Pretty impressive, but unfortunately you can't use all of them and still have the internal cooling fan installed and you'll see below.

     Directly behind the face plats for the drive bays is a 120mm blue LED cooling fan. Now don't panic, the cooling fan can be moved or completely removed to make room for more drives.

     AeroCool has done a great job of keeping the inside of this case clean and organized. With with the power supply in the bottom, power cables and cords will be easier to hide. You can also see that there are 2 hard drive bays just above the power supply mount. A few years ago I would have complained about having only 2 hard drive bays, but with hard drives as large as 750gb, there really is need for more unless you are running multiple hard drives in RAID.

     The above photo is of the bottom rear of the case where the power supply is mounted. AeroCool has installed a vent here to help keep the power supply cool.

 


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