Antec ARIA Micro-ATX Case Review - Powering Up

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After hooking everything up to the VIA M10000, it was time to power this ARIA up. Here is the ARIA sitting on my desk as I installed the OS on the new hard drive.

 

You can see the faint blue glow of the Power LED's on each side of the front bezel.

There is one negative note about the blue power LED's. The one on the right started to flicker and still does after only about 3 days of use. This could be a bad solder joint or a bad LED; I'm not sure as of yet. Here are a few parting shots of the ARIA complete. If you have never seen a VIA M10000 board, you can see just how much room you have in this box with a Micro-ATX board -- not much. Also, one thing to note is that air flow is at a minimum with this case, hence the use of the provided Slot Cooler. If you plan to run a powerful processor and video card in the box, keep that in mind.