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Inside the case we have room for a full size 12” x 9.6” ATX motherboard and enough room for 8800 series graphics cards. All expansion cards are held in place without screws, just plastic tabs which makes any installation nice and easy.
In front of the motherboard area, below the already mentioned externally accessible drive bays, is a drive cage for 6 hard drives. Included on this drive cage are rubber anti-vibration grommets for mounting the drives (special screws are included of course) in an effort to keep any vibration noise to a minimum. The main intake fan for the case is right in front of the hard drive cage so high hard drive temperatures should never be a problem. The cage is held in with one thumbscrew down low and a simple clip up high, so when your case is packed with other components such as long video cards and cabling going everywhere, you can remove the whole drive cage easily out the side to install a new hard drive.
All the externally accessible drive bays have screw-less drive installation with the option of using normal screws as well if you want to ensure they are secured properly, a good idea if the case is going to be travelling or shipped somewhere as the screw-less mounts don’t seem to be *that* secure, but fine for a computer that will only sit under your desk and never move.
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