Taking a look at the back of the door you can see that the handle can be removed with little effort so that if you want to install a window it will be pretty easy. There is also the 80mm fan which is nothing special but there is a cool fan that is optional that we will look at later.
There are tons of jumpers in the case because of the front USB and firewire not to mention you get the fact that you get 3 HDD LED jumpers instead of the usual one. For the most part the jumpers are pretty neat and tidy, some of the front panel ones are fused together and some are individual. I don’t know why they didn’t just have them all fused together to cut down on the mess. The USB and firewire jumpers are fused together or incased in tubing to keep them nice and neat. I like how the firewire jumpers are all put together to keep it all in one place.
The inside front of the case has a fan holder which will hold an 80mm fan, just like the rest of the cutouts this one is also very good allowing a lot of air to flow through. The back of the case also has a fan holder for a single 80mm fan with the same style of cutout. I really like how these holders are included because it makes installation and un- installation of fans so much faster than having to unscrew 4 screws.
The front bezel of this case is very cool and I think one of the best features. You all know that removing your bezel can either be very easy or very hard and in most cases it is not easy. I really like the system that Antec has devised here, to remove the top half of the bezel all you need to do is push on 2 tabs which are located on both sides of it and it comes right off without a struggle and without any tools. After removing the top half of the bezel you can see that there are 2 more clips at the bottom of the first picture which release the bottom half, all you need to do is push down on both sides a little and it pops right off. There is also another really cool feature that I found after removing the top half of the front bezel. Usually when you want to install your floppy drive you have to go in through the inside of the case and screw it in from both sides which is time-consuming and can be frustrating. Antec has a floppy drive cage which is held to the case by 2 thumbscrews, we will see that more later.
The bottom half of the bezel came off just as easy as the top half did and also had a nice feature lurking underneath it. The case comes with a filter for the front intake fan so that you can prevent dirt from getting inside your case and making it look horrible. This filter is really nice because it comes off very easily and it can be washed with soap and water when it gets dirty which means you dont have to spend any money buying a new one. Another thing I really liked about the back of this bottom half is the fact that the front USB and firewire jumpers were not soldered on but they were connected just like the other end of it would be.
Taking a look at the naked front of this case you can see that all of the metal is really nice and not sharp, you can also see that there are a few more cutouts which your hard drives will be behind in a cage. Getting back to the inside of the case we can see that there are plenty of expansion slots for your PCI and AGP cards so that you can move them around and keep your case nice and sealed. I like having lots of extra expansion slot covers rather than the punch out kind so that you can keep your case all closed up.
