The Interior
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The interior of the case is all black, which is nice to see considering the price tag. In the way of headers, the case has a USB 2 header, a USB 3 header, a front audio header (which can be either HD or AC’97 Audio), two fan connectors and the usual headers for the switches and LEDs.
The motherboard tray has a large cutout for CPU cooler back plates, as well as some smaller cutouts for cables. Two 2.5″ SSDs can be installed near the front of the motherboard tray. To install them, you have to insert the supplied rubber grommets into the holes and screw them in from the right hand side of the case. To be perfectly honest here, I would rather just have standard screw holes. SSDs do not vibrate at all, so there is really no need to use rubber grommets on the SSD bays.
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In total, there are three 3.5″ Bays (one exposed bay near the top and two internal bays on the bottom), one 5.25″ Bay, and four 2.5″ Bays (the two aforementioned bays on the motherboard tray, one on top of the internal 3.5″ bays, and one underneath the exposed 3.5″ bay). This is plenty of bays for most users and more than many other cases in this price range offer. Unfortunately, though, none of them have screw-less mounting. There are two fan grilles in front of the bays, the top one coming with another 120mm XtraFlo fan installed. There is also plenty of room for long graphics cards above the bottom drive bays, and they can be removed altogether to make room for a 240mm water cooling radiator. The expansion slot covers are all re-installable, and have vents cut in them. Just to the left of them, there are two snap-off covers for water cooling pipe holes.
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