Interior

Removing the panels presents you with the oh so familiar Chieftec interior. Excellent material and build quality with rolled edges for safety has been a trademark of Chieftec and the BX Series carries on that tradition. At first sight, you'll notice it has the same size and space from the previous models as this is essentially the same structure. You'll need to look further to see the various differences. The HDD Cages now have more holes to allow more air to circulate through them and help cool your hard drives. It still uses the same tool-less design as with previous models.

They still uses the rather purplish fan holders for the rear and front fan ports. These holders allows you to install your fans without any screws at all. As for the 92mm fan port on the other side, you'll have to install it on the mobo tray with screws.

Chieftec also included a Card Clipper for the 7 expansion slots. You just install your cards in and using the single clipper, secure all the cards at the same time without any screws. Although it can be a little hard to secure the clipper once you have all your cards installed. I had to bend the locking clip a little so that it will have a secure grip on the case to prevent it from coming loose.

You must be wondering what this row of screws are doing here in the case aren't you? Well, Chieftec abandoned their drive rail system from the previous models and replaced it with the "Smart Screw" system. This obviously saves manufacturing cost and makes installing your drives a tad more easier.

All you need to do now is secure the screws from the case onto the top row of screw holes on your drives as illustrated in the pictures below. Once you've done that, simply slide the drive into the case until the screws locks in place.

The screws are secured in place by metal clips and remove your drive, simply lift the metal clip and pull your drives out. The big problem with this new design is that if you plan to install your 5.25" Rheobus or other kinds of controllers, you won't have anywhere to secure it to as there are no screw holes present on the 5.25" drive bays structure. Major bummer there as there's a lot of rheobuses and controllers being used out there! Or you'll have to find a screw which has a head larger than the openings for the "smart screws" to fully secure your rheobus or controller. Or use a large washer or something...

I don't think I have to go thru the rest of the peripherals installation now do I? It's basically the same structure as the old Chieftecs and if you need help, you can always refer to the Dragon Case review right here.