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Addtronics 7896A Case Review

Here are two more pictures to satisfy your eyes on this beautiful case. One is a close-up of the front grill, and the other is a side-view of the side panel closed.

Unfortunately, there are a few flaws in this case. Nothing is perfect. It isn't that bad and most of them can be fixed. One of the bad points is that between the opening for the drive bays and lower part of the case is too narrow. With all the cables going to the drives to the motherboard, it is going to severely block air flow. The second bad point is that the fans at the top of the case will not be any benefit if your putting large drives in (I.E., CD-ROM Drives).

The drives block all airflow. However, it does help cool down scsi drives tremendously. That's the reason I am mounting all my SCSI drives in the 5 1/4 bays. But, if you don't have anything in the bays where the fans are, they will be an excellent means of exhaust. That 80mm fan in the back of the case isn't going to be enough exhaust.

Another flaw is in the front panel. The attachments of the front panel are not very strong. The pegs are hollow and can be broken. This can be fixed by putting hot glue to fill the hollow pegs which will strengthen them. Another problem is noise. This case is much noisier than other cases that I have used. The more fans, the louder it is. But I don't mind that much. The 10,000 RPM SCSI drives I am installing are far more noisier.

The last thing which annoys me is the reset switch. It's to small and recessed. I can't see anyone pressing it with their finger. I have to use a small screw drive or small key to press it. The final problem is that there is no physical power switch on the power supply. This helps when soft power off is giving you trouble. But I can live without that. You do have the option of getting different power supplies, but they are usually more expensive.

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