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A Closer Look :::...
In addition to good quality gold coloured feet with quality rubber inserts, a vent runs full-width meaning ample air is available to that front intake fan without the vent encroaching onto the visible front panel.
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Next is was time to take a peep inside and initial reactions were favourable, though until your eyes take it all in and you realise those two, wide bracing straps can actually be removed it gives the impression of being a touch fiddly to work on.
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A real loom of cables sprout from the front right beside the orange intake fan. All are unnecessarily long, no doubt due to having been lifted straight from one of Thermaltake's tower case designs. After all, there's not a lot of point specially designing a connector/cable module until you know how sales will shape up.
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The quality is certainly good. Not, perhaps, as solid as you'll find in many of Silverstone's chassis but then again they tend to be heavier. I'm not sure how strong a HTPC case needs to be anyway, depends on the weight of dust you allow to build up I suppose.
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Having let the eyes wander around for a while it seems there are some really rather sensible design ideas going on internally here.
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Much of the structural strength comes from the way the panels are pressed rather than from heavy duty materials but it works. Reducing the weight in this way also means extra little crevices can be created, either to add a drive mounting location or just to tuck a wayward cable into, something which indirectly helps with airflow and cooling.
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