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RaidMax Virgo Case

The front access ports are located at the bottom of the front bezel. The outside door is labeled with a big USB symbol. Pushing on the door releases the latch to allow access.

There is plenty of room here without any worry about crowding. There are two USB 2.0 and the mic and headphone jacks for your audio. As you can see, there is a place for FireWire but it's not included.

When I first tried to open the front door to check out the drive bays, I pulled and tugged and couldn't seem to open the door, until I realized that the hinges were actually on the right side with the latch on the left, opposite of every other case door I've seen.

Not a problem, but something to remember so you don't rip the door off the case as I almost did.

On the back of the door are four small latches which, when pressed in and pushed outward, remove the front panel cover.

Once the cover is gone, we can see the actual temperature display and the HDD LED. There is a small jumper on the right side of the temperature display which switches the readout from Celsius to Fahrenheit for your personal preference.

The window on the side panel, in addition to being nice and large, is cut in an irregular shape which I believe is a bit nicer looking than a standard square window. As you can tell from the reflection in the picture, the paint job on this case is excellent.

RaidMax has included an 80mm fan here covered by a nice mesh type grill to keep you from loosing fingers. As you can tell from it's position, it is directly over top of where the CPU would normally be instead of the VGA card. The fan is directed for exhaust rather than intake and has a built in ducting mod on the inside to funnel air from the CPU. We'll get to that once we pull the side panel off.

A couple of things of interest on the back, and I'm sure most of you are wondering about that big purple thing covering the rear exhaust fan.

RaidMax is billing the case as a quiet solution and the fan cover, louvers and all, should help with the noise level. However, I'm more concerned with the airflow as these louvers do block quite a bit of the flow.

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