Closer Look at MGE Sidewinder

This system case may be of blue, black or silver color. We’ve got a silver-colored sample for our tests. It looks extremely enough, yet retains a certain gravity of appearance.

The silvery-colored face panel offers four 5.25” bays and two “open” 3.5” bays. These bays are all covered under a magnet-held door. Unfortunately, there’s no slit for the optical drive in this door, as we saw with the Ninja. Another unpleasant thing is that the door opens to the left by an angle of a little over 45 degrees. So, if the case is to the right of you, it will be inconvenient to extract a CD or a diskette from the drive.

At the bottom of the front panel, to the right of the vent holes, there are Power and HDD indicators. The Power and Reset buttons are located right above them. On the right side of the front panel, there are two USB connectors, headphones and microphone connectors and a FireWire port. I met an unpleasant surprise between the USB ports: a piece of iron that acts as a spring. I wouldn’t warrant safety of your fingers if you were to connect your headphones blindly, without looking at the case. In fact, this spring can cut your fingers even if you’re just cleaning the system case.

No comments about the wires that go from these connectors into the case. Just take a look at the next snapshot: