Platinum XP

As your can see this is pretty much your basic mid tower ATX case. It has 4 external 5.25 expansions slots and 2 external 3.5. It includes a decent amount of hardware to fasten down your motherboard and expansion cards. Also included is a cable for the front USB Ports. This cable is detachable at the ports so if the ports aren't used you can get the cable out of the case to make it look nice and clean. The power and reset button is kind of neat. Its chrome with the power button in the middle and the reset being the rectangular button between the power and hdd LED's.

One cool thing about the floppy slot is that there is no need to take the face off of your floppy. Just put it in and lock it down and your all set. There is plenty of room behind the front cover for the floppy and the button on the case just pushes against the button on the drive. Looks nice and clean and there won't be any need for a silver colored floppy drive as it will be hidden behind the front cover.

Another cool thing about it is that its almost screwless. In the pictures below you will see the 5.25 and 3.5 drive bays. The Yellow sliders are what locks the drives into place. It only has these on one side of the case and really that is all you need. The drives are really secure and I don't ever see a drive coming out on its own.

Now the motherboard standoffs are something I personally have never seen before. If you'll take notice the case has a bunch of those square looking holes in it. The motherboard standoffs are plastic and snap into those holes. Then a basic machine screw screws into those to hold the motherboard down. The case does have 2 metal standoffs so that the motherboard is properly grounded so if your worried about that, don't. It may be a good idea to screw the screws into the standoffs before installing your motherboard. Since the standoffs aren't tapped, it will require a little bit of effort to get the screws in. Now you don't want to slip off of a screw and jab it into your board and ruin it so this is why I suggest running the screws into them first.

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