Looks

The real reason you're buying this case for....

On a LAN you mostly see two different types of cases. Some very nicely modded cases, and the vanilla white cases. You also want a “different” case, so can mod your case. This takes a lot of time, and if you’re not really handy, then you’ll have the ugliest case at the LAN…

To help out these people case manufacturers started making pre-modded cases.

This case, the SF-561T2 is one of them.
The first thing modders do is change the colour of the front leds. Everyone has green leds, nothing special about it, so SuperFlower put a blue power led in this case. And, less special, an orange IDE activity led.
“And on the second day, he created light…” Or something like that :-). What I mean is, the SF-561T2 came with internal lighting, provided by the 80 mm fan that sits at the top. It’s not an ordinary case fan, this one is totally transparent, and has four coloured led’s (red, green, blue, orange).


Power button, reset button and the two led’s....



Top coloured fan:




So we have light, but what use has this if you can’t see into your case. Off course you can always remove your case panels, but that’s not really what we want. Case windows solve this problem. SuperFlower placed two of them. A big one the left case panel, covering almost the entire panel. A second one in top panel with the “lighted” 80mm fan fitted in the middle, and a good looking grill cut-out to allow the hot air to escape.

All this makes the SuperFlower far from bad looking, but there’s more…

The front panel is made out of steel, but as you maybe already have seen on other SuperFlower cases, there’s also an extra plexi front applied. If you don’t like it, it can be easily removed by spinning of some thumbscrews.

A silver coloured case with lots of plexi.


A view on the entire case...
And a closer look, on the finishing of such a window:




The concept is good, but it needs a finishing touch. SuperFlower also thought of this. The magic word is chrome!
The front thumbscrews, the power and reset button and the front I/O panel are made very shiny. You can see my reflection in the pictures.


Shiny I/O panel:




So far for the case, how does the included PSU perform? is it any good?