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Four Mainstream Cases Reviewed: New Models in Middle Tower Class (page 15)

Category: Other

by Vasily Melnik

[ 08/07/2007 | 06:45 PM ]

Interior Design and Assembly

The 570 model is in fact the product of external restyling. They have just left the chassis as it was.

And that was a wise solution. This is one excellent chassis that calls for no additions. They only changed the shape of the brackets for fixing devices in the external bays:

The accessories can still be found in a box fastened in the HDD cage:

Besides fasteners, rails and power adapters for your drives, the box now contains a small napkin.

It seems to be meant for people who choose to use the transparent window in the side panel instead of the air inlet.

The wires are kept to the side panel of the case with a handy clip:

The exhaust fans on the rear panel haven’t changed since the original version of the case:

The fastening mechanism of the intake fan has been slightly modified:

Now it can be easily taken out together with the dust filter in order to be cleaned.

The only thing we don’t quite understand is the grid behind the fan. No cables can get between it and the HDD cage, so the grid is redundant. It just offers more resistance to the airflow.