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HOME  Cases #691 - POWMAX 3304 Black mATX Case
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#691 - POWMAX 3304 Black mATX Case |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 |
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Case Layout
and Specifications:
According the POWMAX website the 3304 mATX case is made of "Zink thermal heat electroplated steel (SGCC)". In reality the case is just really thin steel with a black powder coat. The dimensions of the case are 34cm (L) x 33cm (W) x 13.5cm (H) and has room for two 60mm exhaust above the I/O shield. The 3304 we are reviewing today is black but it does also come in silver.
In the front of the case you will find a single 5 drive bay along with two 3 expansion bays. Directly below the 5 bay you will find a small door that when opened, reveals two USB ports and audio jacks for a microphone input and a headphone jack output. Just to the right of the ports, you will find the chrome painted power and reset buttons along with the green power and red HDD activity LED's. One can see that there is plenty of perforated openings at the front of the case which provides plenty of airflow. On the removable top of the case, you will find perforated openings for an 80mm fan, though you should note that there is no room for a fan inside the case for any size fan.
At the back of the 3304 case you will find, from left to right, the mATX PSU, the I/O shield and four expansion slots. POWMAX includes a 230watt switching mATX PSU model number LP6100A.
At the front of the case, the inside contains a removable cages for the single 5" and the dual 3" drive bays. On the POWMAX website, they note that they are anti-vibrant drive bays, yet there is no rubber grommeting or any other included anti-vibration implementation. There is a HDD bracket located below and perpendicular to the 5" bay. Here is a shot of the test Rom and HDD drives mounted on the cage.
While installing the motherboard, you will want to take the drive cages out as you will find that there little room to move around. This is especially true if you have a Rom drive installed in the cage.
When I installed the test motherboard along with the CPU and retail HSF, there was about a single millimeter of gap between the fan and the bottom of the Rom drive. You might want to take this into consideration when choosing your HSF. When installing a graphics card, there is plenty of room to clear the Rom drive with some added room to accommodate backside cooling options.
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