Here you can see the three front mounted gauges which are housed in the door of the unit. The high-gloss black paint looks somewhat displaced by the no-gloss flat black finish of the plastic bezel. The front bezel has two magnets that hold the door closed, but the screw heads that the magnets attract quickly mar and scratch the surface of the bezel. The damage from this is not glaringly obvious but the black bezel made this case extremely hard to photograph - so please excuse the odd lighting and bad reflections. Upon first inspection, I thought that the silver highlighted blowhole with black meshing in the front (pictured right) would provide great airflow for the front of the case. Later we will find that this is not the case. (no pun(s) intended)

   Inside I found the standard bag of motherboard standoffs, screws - a small motherboard speaker and chassis feet. The feet do not come installed and simply snap into the appropriate holes; they provide about one centimeter of ground clearance. The case comes with two 80mm fans installed - one in the rear and one in the top blowhole. The rear fan mount can hold an 80mm, 92mm, or 120mm although I found the venting to be much more restrictive than I like to see; expect a fair amount of wind resistance and noise with even moderate 80mm fans. With this venting; 92mm and 120mm fans are really not feasible without Dremeling larger vents.  The unit can hold four external 5.25" devices, two external 3.5" devices, and four internal 3.5" devices; the manufacturers website incorrectly lists five 3.5" devices.

   The front of the unit was very disappointing because while the front plate could easily accommodate a single 120mm fan, it instead has fan mounts for two 80mm fans in a side-by-side configuration and some of the worst venting I've seen - expect extremely poor airflow through those front vents. To top off the front cooling designs, the front blowhole that we saw in the front bezel behind the door is completely blocked when the door is closed. There are a few 1/4 inch holes drilled into the door which partially line up with the blowhole but don't expect to move air through these efficiently. Aside from this blowhole, the front fans have only one other place from which to draw air:  a 4” x 0.6” slot in the bottom edge of the front bezel. For air to move through this slot with the 1cm of ground clearance this case has, it absolutely requires a flat surface and will not operate on carpet. Some advanced Dremel work along with custom fan mounts could adapt this case to house a 120mm front intake fan… although you would have no venting for it unless the door is always left open.