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| ThermalTake V9 Black Edition Computer Case - 4 |
| Written by Tom | ||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday, 10 February 2009 16:00 | ||||||||||||||||
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Interior Using the provided thumbscrews and sliding off the panel reveals the interior of the case. For a mid-tower chassis the case is surprisingly spacious. There is plenty of room to install any modern video card you'd like. While there is no holes cut in the motherboard tray for cable management that doesn't mean that the design doesn't include any as we will see a little later on. Taking the other panel off reveals the motherboard tray and the pre-cut fan mount. this should help reduce temperatures on the back side of the motherboard.
With the front bezel off you can see that the removable dust filter for the front fan. Also it is nice to see that there are still dedicated 3.5" bays in todays cases. There is enough room to facilitate four 5 1/4" devices as well as two external 3 1/2" devices. In order to install the optical drives and hard drives just twist the red knobs, remove the lock from the case, slide the device in, line up the holes, insert the lock once again and give it a twist to lock it back in place. It really couldn't be any easier than that. As you can see the hard drive caddy can hold up to five drives and they are spaced out enough as not to hinder air flow from the front fan. Another nice thing is that the hard drives can be installed with the connections closer to the motherboard. This allows the cables to remain tucked away and out of view and out of the way of that 23cm fan on the side panel. At the back of the case you will find the 120mm fan. I would like to have seen a fan grill here instead of the cut out honeycomb design, but again the goal is to cut costs with out sacrificing performance. At the top there's the other 23cm fan. Moving back to the bottom floor of the case you can see the power supply dust filter. As I said earlier a filter with a bottom mount power supply is a necessity. But in order to clean it you would have to turn the case on edge and scrape off the bottom or to get it totally clean, remover the psu from the back of the case and remove it from the inside. I would have liked to seen a filter that is removable without having to remove any other hardware.
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| Last Updated on Thursday, 02 July 2009 18:14 |
