A Look Inside

The motherboard panel slides into two rails which are present at each side of the case, which allows you to turn the panel 180°C around, and install your ATX system, with the CPU near the bottom of the case. As you can imagine, the motherboard panel can be removed tool less, by use of an ingenious clip system.

The motherboard panel holds one 120mm fan which blows hot air out the case.



A closer look at the front of the case reveals the tool less 5.25” installation system, the plastic sliders push metal pins into the mounting holes of 5.25” devices, optionally you can secure them with screws to prevent any movement, although I don’t think that’s needed for full length 5.25” devices like DVD/CD drives, once clicked into place, they won’t move.




The bottom 3 drive bays hold a 4-in-3 hard drive bracket with 120mm in-take fan integrated, this bracket is secured by 4 screws at each side, first time you’ll need to use your screwdriver: hard drive installation.



The side panels of the drive cage need to be removed before you can screw the hard drives in place



The plates mounting pins are pushed into rubber rings to reduce HDD vibration reaching the case:



While it’s a form of HDD noise reduction, the open design of 830 Evo doesn’t prevent the high pitched noise of HDDs to escape. Up to four hard drives can be installed in this bay. The bottom of the drive cage is filled with holes to help heat escape:


With two drives installed, not a lot of room between the HDDs