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Cooler Master Centurion 590 Mid-Tower Case
Inside the Case
The side panel's fixed with thumbscrews, and slides back before it pops off. All the steel's got your SEC-grey finish, so a window's not missed. Everything but the motherboard and hard drives can be installed tool-lessly, but for 5.25" devices, you still have the option to use screws. Not so much with the expansion slots, but they're vastly improved of the break-off-in-your-hand clips of yore, and I would trust them for the wonkiest of cards. The drive bay clips work well enough to really depend on, which, compared to yanking off the second side panel for screws is appealing... at least, when they work this well. Motherboard Tray The tray's fixed, but there's room on all three sides for maneuvering, whether or not fans are mounted to the top. There are standoff holes for about every motherboard standard ATX and smaller. Equally nice is the volume of space between the other side door and the drive bays--more than enough room for any and all spare cables. Power Supply The power supply is at the bottom, a growing trend in putting the heavy at the bottom and the venting at the top. Power supplies can be installed with the fan up or down since there's a vent through the bottom of the case. There are four rubber stands for the PSU to rest on while absorbing the vibrations, if any.  Drive Bays The bays are the highlight of the show. All nine of them. Again, they use tool-free clips or screws, or both. The hard drives go in a removable drive cage (that's screwed in at the factory) and it has vibration-dampening grommets around the screw holes. The cage can alternatively be used as a fan tunnel, with an optional second fan mount on the inside.  The 5.25"-to-3.5" adapter has screw holes to the sides and through its base, making possible the installation of even your oldest floppy drive.
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
Tyler
on May 29, 2008 - 8:08 pm How can you have a case review without pictures of a system installed? In fact one can infer from the review that a system wasn't actually installed at all. What gives?
2 - Posted by
Kurtis
on May 29, 2008 - 8:55 pm We always install hardware in our case reviews. Max just didn't take photos of it all installed.
3 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on May 29, 2008 - 9:02 pm Yeah, I'm still learning how to use my camera, and I haven't quite gotten a hang of changing the order in which I do things. For what it's worth, I installed a full ATX system (Asus nForce 4 SLI 32, Zalman 9500 heatsink, 8600 GT w/ Zalman heatsink, some kind of hard drive, another kind of DVD rom, and a Seasonic S12 PSU) and didn't have any problems. Add Comment To add a comment without being a member, you may omit the password field, but you must enter your name (or nickname) along with your comment. * Denotes required fields. |
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