A Closer Look - Inside

Gaining access to the inside is quite simple: pop the locks and pull them off. Since In Win is one of the few companies that produce the cases in house, they also have total control over the tooling and design. This becomes apparent with the BUC 101, as there are plenty of neon green elements everywhere. The mainboard tray has a few strategically placed openings and is shaped in a way that it becomes a shallow funnel, giving you more space between the tray and the side panel. In general, you will have around 15 - 20 mm of space to work with.

I was shocked for a second to see little bumps instead of traditional spacers at first, but closer examination shows, that these are pointier than the traditional kind and are shaped like a circular pyramid instead of half a globe. This means that you should not have to worry about shorting your board on these.


There are five hard drive bays, each with a neon green slate. These are shaped in a fashion that makes it really hard to remove them and - as we will see later on - even harder to insert when they are filled. The top one reads "System", as it has the same configuration as the original BUC chassis. Above that are the four external drive bays. The screws have been replaced by neon green push pins, thus no tools are needed to fill these.


In the rear we have the standard PSU bay, which utilizes rails to hold the unit in place. Above that are the seven expansion slots, each with the neon green locking mechanism. Last but not least, there is the 120 mm exhaust fan with the same color theme as the rest of the interior.


The third fan in the ceiling is of the same size and model. Both come with 3 pin connectors, so that you can have the speed adjusted automatically by your mainboard.


The cables are nothing out of the ordinary. A set of SATA and power cables are intended for the HDD bay in the top of the chassis. Unlike the cables in the original BUC, the ones within this chassis are of the colorful variant.