Coolermaster ATC-110b Case Review - Overview Continued page 2

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Manufacturer: Coolermaster Provided by: Coolermaster Price: $259 Product: ATC-110b Aluminum Mid-Tower Case Written by: SPeeD Date: November 2002

 

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Overview Continued
Here are a few snaps of the power button and reset button. These things simply ooze quality and are not only nice to look at, feel great when turning the PC on and off, or using the reset button.

 

 

Definitely sweet. Another little nicety that Coolermaster included was pre-installed LED's for the Power On and HD Activity light.

 

It's little touches like that can give you appreciation for this type of case. Lets checkout a few more pics at different angles of the case and move on from there.

Close-up of the acrylic Window

 

A shot with the side off

 

Inside shot

 

The underbelly

 

Front with door open

Installation
Ok. Now that we have the necessary pics out of the way, let move on to installation of a system in the case. I just wouldn't feel right about giving you guys a case review and not have even installed components in it.

First and foremost, this baby has a removable motherboard tray! Yippee. I haven't had a case since my old Aopen HX08 that had a removable mobo tray. I tell ya, if you swap out cpu's, memory, motherboards etc, the inclusion of a mobo tray is extremely convenient. Coolermaster really pulled this one off nicely. Lets take a look.

 

 

Again, nothing but quality here, and the inclusion of a nice 80mm exhaust fan with a grill certainly doesn't hurt.

Now, once I got the mobo tray out and looked it over, I was wondering how in the world it would secure the motherboard to it. A quick look in the box revealed a pack of goodies that would set me straight.

What I'm talking about is the little aluminum grommets that can be placed wherever your motherboard requires them. This takes only a small amount of planning and should be done in coordination with spacing of screw holes on your particular motherboard.

Not yet installed

 

Backside of mobo tray after grommet installation

 

Topshot after grommet installation

 

Now that we've set up the mobo tray we can get everything installed. Installation was a breeze and there was plenty of room for all of my components which consisted of the following.

• Abit IT7 Max Mobo

• Intel P4 1.6A CPU

• Swiftech MCX4000 HSF

• 512MB Kingmax PC2400 Memory

• 2 WD 80Gig Special Edition HD's

• Lite-on 40x CDRW

• Generic 56x CDRom

• Abit GF4 Ti 4200 Siluro

• Enermax 431W PSU

• CL Soundblaster Audigy

• All Steel rounded cables provided by SidewinderComputers

 

 

All components installed

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