Installation Impressions

An advantage to working with a product as heady as the tòu is that shortcomings are often overlooked because it'due south and then special that y'all tin make compromises yous might not otherwise be willing to make.

Keeping in mind that the tòu lacks a CPU hole in the motherboard tray, we installed a CPU cooler with the motherboard out of the example to avert whatever issues. For the photos, we used an LGA2011 setup which doesn't need rear motherboard admission due to the nature of the socket design. Still for LGA1155 or AM3+ users there is a adept chance the after-market place libation you install will require rear access, and so proceed that in mind.

The CPU cooler of choice was the Thermalright SilverArrow SB-E Extreme, which stands 165mm tall and tests the limits of well-nigh cases. Despite coming in contact with the glass panel it was possible to simply fit the SilverArrow SB-E Extreme inside. And so realistically nosotros would put the maximum CPU heatsink height at around 164mm if you lot want to avoid flexing the glass.

With the CPU and its cooler installed along with the memory modules, we fitted the motherboard into the tòu without any problems. Next the three.v" drives were installed and again this is a picayune different to the norm, though we like the final consequence.

Kickoff, the aluminum tabs that back up the drives must be removed and this is washed by undoing a pair of thumbscrews -- like shooting fish in a barrel enough. Once removed, the drive can exist fitted so the tab re-installed. There is a small cutout in the back tray that allows the difficult drives SATA/ability connectors to be accessed from the contrary side of the case. This is quite ingenious and very not bad at the same fourth dimension.

With the difficult drives installed, we moved on to the power supply. PC Ability & Cooling'southward Silencer Mk Three 1200W provides ample power and looks great inside the tòu.

The tòu has room for graphics cards as long as 380mm, which is more than enough for the Radeon R9 290X or GeForce GTX 780 Ti. Moreover, information technology is easily possible to fit ii or three of these cards, while depending on the motherboard used you could squeeze four in.

Installing everything neatly into the tòu was relatively easy and the cables behind the motherboard tray become largely unnoticed.

Despite its unusual pattern, working with the tòu isn't that difficult though y'all still need to have more care than with a regular instance, equally evidenced past the console that cracked upon delivery. The front right panel was damaged during shipping, only thankfully In Win shipped some other one out right abroad. We hope In Win keeps a heap of spare panels.

With the components inside its time to plough the lights on!