Internal Design

Removing 4 thumbscrews on the large left side panel gets you within the tòu. At that place is a second smaller console which also needs to exist removed to install the power supply. For a first fourth dimension installation, you'll also desire to remove the 2 panels on the opposite side as well as the two at the rear.

For all its attention grabbing greatness on the outside there is surprisingly very little to heighten your marvel on the within.

You become iii tabs that are designed to back up 3.5" or two.5" drives along with room to mountain a pair of 2.five" drives on the back panel. There is besides that v.25" drive bay at the very bottom which we used to tuck away backlog cables.

You won't need a motherboard I/O shield when building in the tòu -- or at to the lowest degree y'all won't exist able to apply it equally in that location isn't a mounting spot for i. In this case, not having a motherboard I/O shield isn't necessarily a bad thing as it isn't exactly required with the rear drinking glass panel.

At that place are 7 expansion slots for PCI/PCIe cards and room for an ATX power supply up to 220mm long.

Keeping things cool is a single front mounted 120mm intake fan which is stock-still into place using a rubber strap of all things. And so at the superlative in that location are 3 120mm exhaust fans and room to back up a 360mm radiator for liquid cooling, because in this case you lot know yous desire to.

As limited as the interior features are, that sand-cast aluminum frame is pretty impressive and measures up to 4mm thick in parts. The motherboard tray, which is also quite solid, has a number of cutouts for cables. Although they are not lined with rubber grommets that doesn't matter as the edges are very polish.

While in that location are cutouts for cable management, In Win somehow overlooked the earth-shaking CPU pigsty in the motherboard tray. This huge oversight can exist corrected with a little modding, simply for the price we would have expected In Win to practise most of the work for yous.

In our mind In Win has also permit the tòu downward a bit with the pre-installed wiring. While much of information technology is braided and looks great, the ends of the fan cabling aren't and the method that In Win uses to connect all fans up to the controller is extremely messy. Again, for the money this is something that should take come up pre-installed all neat like.

The good news however is that behind the motherboard tray there is loads of space to hide cables, though those fan cables we simply spoke of cannot be hidden here due to the location of the fan controller.

Given that the tòu is meant to be a show slice we understand why they have taken a very minimalist approach inside and why at that place is only room for iii 3.5" drives. This is not a server style case and cramming it full of hard drives would just detract from the design.

Moreover, three 4TB drives will allow for a arrangement storage chapters of 12TB, which we experience is plenty for gamers and ability users. Any more than that and something similar a dedicated NAS is a much better selection. In that location is besides room for a pair of SSDs besides so keep that in heed.