Front Door Open	USB, Firewire, and Headphone-Mic Ports	Easy Access Fan Holders , No Filter
Drive Rail Storage Behind Bay Covers	3.5" Drive Area	Front Upper and Lower Comes Off

As you can see in the pictures above, there are certainly some interesting new designs implemented in this "602" version of the case. The easy-access front fan assembly being one of them. They removed the cages from inside the case and placed them on the outside of the chassis. This concept would've been dynomite had they included some type of fan filtering system. Still a nice new feature. With the front fan cover , and the upper plastic piece on the door , easily being removed, this should add to lots of mod possibilities for this case.

Closeup of rails and place of storage

The 5.25" drive rail storage behind the drive covers is an added feature as well. That should cut down on losing the rails when they're not in use.

Window mounted to inside of door,flush on outside

6 hdd's with rail drawers

The exterior side window is mounted with rivots. You can see the window thickness fron the inside of the panel, but the window is absolutely flush on the outside.

The hdd bay area is the real showpiece to the inside of this case. It allows for housing 6 hdd's, each in their own seperate rail drawer that slides out and clips in. This certainly improves on the old design where once you put your video card in, you couldn't remove the hdd without taking the vid card out again. Now you have unobstructed access.

Inside rear

2x80mm "superred" fans included on rear

6hdd's with rail drawers (2nd shot)

The inside rear of the case is pretty standard. There are 2 x 80mm fan cages in the usual place. This design is pretty damn good and no reason to change it in my opinion. The 2 included fans ( only rear fans included ) were of the "superred" trademark. I've never heard of them personally, but they performed and sounded like an average 80mm fan.

There's a MB tray back there, see it?	The MB Tray Removed
Full size ATX MB installed on Tray	Tight fit going back in

The "602" Chenming includes a motherboard tray. Not a "slide out" motherboard tray....just a tray that you need to manually remove fully from the case, thru the inside. This is virtually useless. I think they just felt pressured to come up with a mb tray from all the years of people nagging them for one. They should've just left it be without one. In my opinion , this case has plenty of room to work in and does not NEED a motherboard tray. It especially doesn't need THIS one. it's actually harder to install the motherboard with the tray attached than it would be without a tray at all. I would personally leave the tray alone and pretend it's not even there when building a system in this case. This case is fantastic without a tray at all.

 

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