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85 Clear Acrylic Case</h1> <p><strong>Exterior:</strong></p> <p> The entire clear case is made of plexiglas acrylic and comes fully assembled with each piece either screwed or glued to another. A professional glue job, for the glue is barely visible. The face of the case is a thick 10mm of plexiglas.</p> <p>There are four 5.25" and two 3.5" external drive bays all covered by removable plexiglas. bezels. Needless to say, stealthing optical drives with these bezels would look… um, interesting. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bt85/05.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bt85/05th.jpg" width="119" height="250" alt="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" title="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>To the right of the 3.5" bays are the power and reset buttons. Underneath them, power and hard drive lights exist. Below the 3.5" bays reside two 8cm (80mm) intake fans. These two case fans, along with two more on the case, feature blue LEDs and have grills attached. The blue lights give the whole case an icy cold look when powered up. </p> <p>To the left of the lower fan is a rotary fan speed controller. With this controller, you can control the speed of the two front fans. Note that, lowering the speed of the fan also slightly dims the LEDs on the fans. To the right of the lower fan are two USB and a single Firewire port.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bt85/10.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bt85/10th.jpg" width="200" height="250" alt="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" title="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>Two cylindrical beam type joints connect the top panel to the two side panels. The cylindrical beams nicely round the two edges. Both side panels are secured by screws. The left panel has an 8cm exhaust fan mounted in the middle.</p> <p> A cutout for the power supply (not included) exists in the top of the back panel. Below that is the rear 8cm exhaust fan. To the left of the fan is the clear punch out I/O plate. Below that is the punch out expansion slots. It should be noted that the section that contains the I/O plate and expansion slots is made of thin plastic. If the included clear I/O plate is not compatible with your motherboard, be very careful installing a compatible plate, since the surrounding plastic is very brittle and can break easily if you are not careful. Finally, between the fan, I/O plate, and expansion slots is a rectangular hole that can be used to feed wires out of the case.<br> </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bt85/07.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bt85/07th.jpg" width="143" height="250" alt="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" title="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p><strong>Interior:</strong></p> <p> BeanTech does not include a power supply with their acrylic case. Actually this is not all bad since it cuts costs and most modders are hardly ever satisfied with bundled PSUs. The power supply support rail only extends one inch from the back side under the PSU. The screws are what holds the power supply in place. The PSU will not stay without screws.</p> <p>Both of the side panels can be removed by unscrewing the screws that secure them. Both panels WILL need to be removed to install any drives. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bt85/12.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bt85/12th.jpg" width="220" height="250" alt="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" title="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>Removing two long screws located in the back of the right panel releases the removable motherboard tray. The motherboard tray slides out as one unit, making installation of motherboard and expansion cards immensely easier. </p> <p>The five "hidden" 3.5" drive bays all feature rubber rings around each screw slot. This is the anti-vibration system mentioned in the features and I must say they are very affective. These rings do a great job muffling the hard drives noises and reduce stress on the plastic caused by the vibration. </p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/bt85/09.jpg"><img src="atruereview/bt85/09th.jpg" width="250" height="167" alt="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" title="BeanTech CS-BT 85 Clear Acrylic Case" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p>As you will notice in the picture, the five drive bays are placed directly behind the front intake fans, so that the incoming air cools your drives. 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