"Da Looks"

Frankly everything was very easy to install with this case. It was just a matter of simply aligning things and screwing them in. Everything fit perfectly, no hassles at all. In the above pic you'll see the inside of one of the side panels. The outside is all hard plastic but it does have the thin aluminum cover for the inside. As you can see it's almost mirror-like(Look Ma, I can see myself! haha).

In the above pic can see the case has an included front cover with a cutout for a cdrom, dvd drive or cdrw. I tried it with 4 different brands and they all fit and functioned properly. With the exception of a DVD drive that has that large curved and sloping down front sliding door. A slot load worked perfectly but another DVD drive with that larger tray cover didn't because the front sliding tray is larger than most cdrom/cdrw drives. Still, that's a nice touch. Also notice the floppy. You will need a faceless floppy for this case. Or simply remove the face on one you have. But before I screwed it in I had to test it a few times and make adjustments to be sure the floppy was working ok. If not aligned exactly the floppy will not eject properly, as I learned. I had to slightly raise the front of the floppy and then screw it in to make it work well and once done in all was just fine. If you don't want to mess with making a faceless floppy you can remove the cover below that has the name "Stonex" on it and a floppy fits there too.

Also in the pics above you can see how it will look when you add in more drives. Only one cut-out cover was included though. At least one more would have been nice to help keep the look intact better if one has a seperate DVD drive or cdrw. But as you can see it isn't that bad. Plus you can still use one of the covers and remove it when you wish to use that other drive.

Of course there is the back end. Nothing really special but notice the clips instead of screws. Now this I like a lot. You simply press them in and slide the side cover off. At first it takes getting use to and being sure it's in the inside catches. But after a few tries you learn it's a piece of cake and a total breeze. Opening a computer case has never been this easy.

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