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Cooler Master CM Stacker 830 (RC830SSN1) ATX Full Tower Case Products

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What surprised me a little was the cover lock. It uses a strong magnet, but there is no handle or jut to make it easier to open the panel.

You have to use the small slits on the side:

That’s not very convenient. On the other hand, the system can be normally managed (particularly, turned on and off) from the remote control, so you won’t need to open that cover up too often.

The case itself seems to be a big ventilation grid:

It’s only the bottom and back panels, and part of the top one, which are blank. This approach ensures good cooling of the components, but doesn’t help at all to suppress the noise from the fans, making the user be more careful when choosing a CPU cooler for this system.

There seems to be nothing particularly interesting about the back panel.

Yet I found a couple of curious design solutions. First, there are a few openings here:

Judging by the diameter of the holes, they are meant for RCA connectors. It’s up to the manufacturer (or user) who’s assembling a computer in this system case if these are going to be sound or, for example, component video output. And there are also two brackets above the mainboard’s back connectors:

These are shaped like typical SCART connectors some users may ask for. I don’t know an add-on card that would support output via SCART, but there are a lot of adapters from typical PC interfaces to SCART which you can hide somewhere inside the case. As for expansion cards, the back panel seems to provide place for three of them:

But when it comes to practice, it’s not so clear. Let’s find out what are the basic assembly tips.

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