Day to day usage

Day to day usage

So how is this case to live with on a day to day basis? Lovely. Really silent, easy to open since the side panel has a latch that you can use to open it up if you havent used the thumb screws to secure the side door. If you are afraid that it might tilt and fall over (perhaps you might want to ride on it! Who knows!), then it has four legs on the bottom that open up to add to its stability. This is one of my minor issues. The feet dont have rubber on them, so if you try to move the case around with no carpet, it might make some screeching noise if you dont pick it up. Another tiny issue is that the front metal bezel makes a noise when it closes since there is no cushioning.

Again, really minor as all it takes is one or two thin rubber pads placed on the inside of the bezel. Very easy to take out and put the hard disks back in and big enough to be able to use some really long cards. You might run into problems with your cables though, you might need to get some longer ones (My round cables were simply too short). I had to use the lower optical drive places because my IDE cable wasnt long enough. And even then I had to find a long enough IDE cable because my motherboard has the second IDE channel near the bottom If your motherboard has the IDE channel further up, you shouldnt have such problems. Those are problems however that are only needed to be dealt with once. The front I/O ports while not on top of the case are still in a place where you can easily reach them without stretching since they are not at the bottom. And for the people that don't know it, accidental ejection of the CD/DVD tray won't ruin it, it will just close back on its own after a couple of seconds, so don't worry if your favorite burning application or game ejected the tray with the front bezel closed. (Which actually happened to me. I left a certain app burning, and I simply forgot to check up on it. I came back to the PC and i heard this "vrrr KLING! ... vrrr" noise).