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#844 - Sunbeam Acrylic UFO Case |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Friday, 13 July 2007 |
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Installation and Use:
Before you start placing hardware in your system, I recommend placing the front I/O PCB in place and mounting the two 120mm fans. This will avoid you having to dodge motherboard components while screwing down the mounts. After you have your motherboard installed and other peripherals, you can start plugging in everything. Sunbeam has placed quite a bit of thought into their Acrylic UFO case with many different passages for your IDE cables, power leads, and other cables you may need to pass from the lower chamber to the upper chamber. As you can see from the back shot, there is plenty of room for a water cooling pump and/or reservoir.
 
Looking at the case from the front, you can see that the front I/O PCB has a power switch, reset switch, power and HDD activity LEDs, headphone and microphone jacks, and two USB2.0 jacks. The red PCB is also very attractive. Below the front I/O PCB is where the 5.25” drive bays are located. There are two external bays at the bottom and two internal bays directly above them. The bottom trays have acrylic covers for unused bays and are drilled for 5.25” devices only. You can not mount a hard drive in these bays. You have to mount them in the above bays. To do this, you simple mount four acrylic extensions to the HDD and then mount it as if it was a normal 5.25” device. The Sunbeam Acrylic UFO case would be a perfect choice for those that have invested in the Raptor X 150 drives. You have plenty of viewing surface for the actuator arm of the drive.
From the side shots, you can see that there is plenty of room for extended PSUs and standard sized CPU coolers. Any larger coolers like the Thermalright Ultra-120 or Cooler Master Eclipse will not fit. I could definitely see a water cooling system making a very appropriate home here.
 
Check out the Sunbeam Acrylic UFO case with the lights turned off!
 
 
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