Closer Look Inside

A quality 400W power supply unit will undoubtedly suit for a good gaming system:

The PSU is equipped with two 80-mm fans. One of these fans sucks the air in, and another one blows the air outside the case. The PSU features more than enough connectors for different devices: 9 connectors for optical drives, HDDs or feeding additional power onto NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or ATI RADEON X800 based graphics cards, 2 connectors for 3.5-inch floppy drives or ATI RADEON 9700/9500 based type of graphics cards, one SATA drive power connector and, finally, 20-pin and 4-pin mainboard connectors.

The case is equipped with a removable basket with five spots for hard drives and right opposite to it there is a 120-mm fan sucking the air in from the direction of the front panel.

The mounting holes for screws holding the HDDs inside this basket are covered with elastic rubber bushings, which reduce the noise level generated by HDDs. As is known, the elastic mounting can negatively tell on the performance as well as reliability of the hard disk drives. However, there is no need to worry in our case, as firstly, these bushings are relatively small, and secondly, you can almost completely eliminate their elastic effect if you fix the HDD holding screws really tightly.

Let’s move on. There is a removable basket for two 3-inch drives above the hard disk drives. Above that there are four sections for 5-inch devices.

The proper airflow in and outside the case is provided by four fans. One 80-mm fan on the side of the case and a 120-mm fan on the front panel suck cold external air inside the case, while the PSU fan and another 120-mm fan on the back panel blow the warm air outside the case. By the way, the fan on the back panel is made of transparent plastic and is lit by blue LEDs:

If you wish you may monitor the rotation speeds of the 120-mm fans: besides the power supply cable, both of them have a special wire to be connected to the mainboard.