GigaByte 3D Aurora
Full Tower ATX Enclosure

     Moving inside, it becomes clear that GigaByte did not settle with the innovation of just a few select features. Tool free drive installation and a well marked motherboard tray are among the chief first glance impressions left by the 3D Aurora.

     Two huge 120mm fans pulling exhaust duty take up almost every inch of free space along the back wall of the enclosure. Power is routed to those fans by a wrapped 3-pin power lead which snakes its way along the side and top of the chassis. Leaving it out of the way for the task of motherboard installation and requiring only a single point to supply power.  The fans are only rated at 1000 RPM, so there should be no issues using a motherboards System_Fan 3-pin header for power.

     The PCI/AGP expansion covers are also tool-free, using a hinge and clip that hold down all 7 of the expansion dust covers at the same time.

     The 5.25 inch drive bays use a simple slide and lock to hold the drive in place and secured in the chassis. This is a very common arrangement in a modern enclosure, a tried and true method of tool-free drive installation.

     Internal hard drives get mounted to a sub-frame chassis using small drive rails with tab style locks. The drive rails fit onto the side of the hard drive, and are fitted with preset studs. The studs simply slide into the normal mounting screw hole in the hard drive and will be held in place when the drive and rails are slid into the chassis. Again, not a single tool needed for installation. The storage box at the bottom of the hard drive mounting area can be removed. For this you will need a small Philips screwdriver, and it will allow use of all 5 internal hard drive bays.