Sunbeamtech UFO Acrylic Desktop Case

Assembly

Putting everything together took just shy of an hour.  That's a conservative hour mind you with my doing a complete parts check and inspection prior to putting it all together.  The instructions were clear and straight forward.  We didn't run into any problems during the build in the least.  This was mainly because of the construction components of the Sunbeam UFO that we will be looking at now more closely.

  

The Rig

The Sunbeamtech UFO case is a novelty case so we are going to focus on how it gets the ordinary done in a non-traditional way; i.e. using clear acrylic.  So before we show you the final product, we are going to tease you a bit by looking at the function of the different parts of it.

First up are the control buttons.  The power, reset and front panel access ports are all located on a small red piece of PCB that mounts on the front of the UFO as you can see below.  On the same panel are two USB 2.0, a mic and a speaker jack.

Just below the control buttons are your drive bays.  Bays and in two and only two 5.25" external bays.  No place for a floppy drive here.  In the second shot below you can see the acrylic plates that form a drive rack of sorts that can take a max of two optical drives and two 3.5" drives.  Special spacers are required to mount the 3.5" drives here.  Sunbeam includes eight with the case so unless you install a drive rack into one of the 5.25" bays you will tap out hard drive wise at two.

  

Here's a top down shot of the UFO Case.  The case is like a double decker desktop as we mentioned earlier.  The mainboard and components mounting directly to the board (VGA, RAM, CPU Cooler etc.) are on the top shelf with any installed drives and the power supply mounted below.  The UFO can accept up to a standard ATX sized mainboard.  From this vantage point you can see the two 120mm case fans on each side of the top shelf to keep your components cool.  These fan areas are unfiltered so be advised that a few bottles of Dust Off may be in your future.

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