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Closer Look:::...
The
left hand side of the front face is taken up by the bank
of fout USB ports. You'll need to make certain your chosen
motherboard has a pair of USB headers to get all four operating.
With no dust cover over them you may need to remember to
poke a vaccuum nozzle in there every once in a while.
The
large space above the USB ports would look great with a
VFD display installed but this is made trickier because
the HDD cage sits on the other side.
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Quad
USB Ports
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The
opposite side is dominated by the flush-fitting optical
drive door which serves to hide the front of your otherwise
possibly ill-matching drive.
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Optical
Drive Door
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Not
a new idea, only this drive door is of the soft-close variety
which helps remove the disconcerting clunk as the drive
drawer snaps shut. It also halves wear in that there's only
pressure behind it as the drive opens.
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Optical
Drive Door Open
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The
slightly curved central panel houses the machined aluminium
power and reset buttons along with a customary power and
HDD activity LED. If it matters to you both are blue which
is still the fashionable colour for PC LEDs.
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Power
and Reset Switch and LEDs
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Switching
focus to the back end, here we see the rear PSU vent. The
PSU features a voltahe input slector switch which you need
to check is in the right position before you power her up.
At
240 watts it beats what you'll find in a lot of similar
cases, particularly mini-ITX cases, but don't expect to
run a high-end CPU and a high-end graphics card without
some problems.
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PSU
Rear View
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