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The front panel, top panel, and side panels are made out of several materials ranging from ABS plastic to steel for the chassis and aluminum to give it that more premium feel. At the front side, there is a panel door hiding ODD units, the lower segment has a hatch so you can reach the fans. On the right side of the panel, you will notice a cutout panel that is removable to allow more allow air to enter or exit the chassis. While I liked that latch in 2016, currently I feel it's an unneeded feature, which hurts the looks.

Here I opened up the front side door, the chassis can house up-to two ODD units. A lower face-plate with dust filter can be removed easily as well. You can clean the dust from the filters, or access the two 140mm fans quite easily to clean them. The inside of the door has nice thick sound dampening material applied to it. It's no surprise to find that the right side panel is lined with a sound-absorbing material as well. The same lining is also included on the front panel, absorbing vibration and noise. You can see the material usage in the above photo. The panel is surrounded by a meshed area (left from the orange striping), that is the one spot (if it functions as intake) that can hold dust I guess. Well, just use a vacuum cleaner every now and then. 
  

Let's have a quick peek at the innards.  We see grommet holes, lovely with rubber inlays and a lot of covers. A decent design if you ask me. A good and popular trend these days is to make a big gaping hole in the motherboard tray. This actually is a CPU back-plate cutout which allows you to remove and install a new CPU cooler much easier. Typically you'd need to take out the motherboard to install a new cooler, now you can access it from both sides without that unpleasant experience of removing a motherboard from the chassis.

New all the way below is a massive PSU cover. This hides away the power supply. Unfortunately, it is a bit of a pain in the ass to remove, and another pain in the ass to actually install the PSU. But hey it looks good which outweighs the discomfort I guess, the cover even has small plastic removable inserts. Once removed you could mount rads, fans reservoirs or an SSD. We'll talk about that a little later on though. 

Here you can see the air intake mesh a bit better, surrounding the panel. It works great, but dust can get trapped there rather quickly. A bit of help with a vacuum cleaner is required every now and then. Again the removable panel insert is 'so 2016', as far as I am concerned, this now hurts aesthetics.