Installation
We have built a lot of computers already at GotFrag Hardware, but this installation was probably the smoothest of them all. The first step was to get the drives in place. This was accomplished by snapping in the PVC rails into the screw holes. Unlike most rail-mounted drive bay designs, these plastic rails do not use screws, they simply snap in to the existing screw holes. For the 5.25” drives, it is just a matter of snapping them into place through the front bezel, and locking them with the plastic latches inside the case. For the 3.5” hard drive, the rails slot into a rail retaining system that keeps the device very firmly in place. The entire hard drive containment bay is fastened to the rest of the case via screws with rubber grommets. These rubber grommets dampen any vibration from rattling your hard drives, a nice touch. Installing the power supply required the use of a handy dandy screwdriver as is customary. The hard drive support rail that runs across the case is easily removable, but that shouldn’t pose a problem to anyone considering the ample working space.


The only other time we made use of a tool was during the motherboard installation, where you obviously have to put screws through the board into the standoffs. That part is pretty unavoidable, unless they gave us thumbscrews... The most interesting tool-less features is the pull-and-flip latch design for keeping add-in cards in place. We have seen similar implementations of these latches in other cases, like the Ammo 533 and Centurion 534 from Cooler Master, and we really think that designs like this should be adopted as standard procedure, as they are in all ways superior to the traditional screw method.