Interior Design
Normally I would skip the inside of the side panel, but In Win has paid a little extra attention worth mentioning here. There is a switch for the fan and sound dampening material. Not sure the sound dampening material is really needed with the mesh side, but it’s a nice touch which demonstrates attention to detail. The other side is that interesting fan I mentioned along with the bump that follows the cable routing channels of the case.
Taking a look at the case with both sides off I noticed how open it is. There are quite a few cutouts found on the mainboard tray. Where ever possible room was left to allow for cable routing and interior flexibility. Cables are passed down from the front panel including internal USB headers.
Taking a look at the expansion slots the tool free expansion card retention system is interesting. I have had mixed results with these in the past, particularly with dual-slot cards, so it will be interesting to see how well it actually works. I am actually quite a fan of how they raised the top to allow for the water-cooling support. While I don’t utilize water-cooling myself, the additional room above the mainboard (once installed) makes things much easier to work with. In some cases it is darn near impossible to work that portion of a board once a CPU cooler is installed.
I like it when part of the case is used to store extra things like drive rails. In Win has included a little tray stored in the 5.25” bay to hold the additional drive rails. You simply pull out enough for the drives you are going to install and place the tray back into the case.
The back side of the case is pretty normal. The one feature many seem to want is some sort of rubber grommet with the openings, but that really wouldn’t be needed here. With the large openings on both top and bottom, it wouldn’t control airflow so would just be extra material. Except for the mainboard standoffs, it looks like everything is pretty much of a tool free design. Now let’s try adding some hardware to the case and see how it goes.
