Interior

When we open the side panel, we see the Silent Storm's unique feature: the Core fan. It is a slow spinning quiet fan mounted on a bracket in the middle of the case. Its purpose is to bolster the airflow of the case. This might help cool the CPU and motherboard. The fan is adjustable, so you can move it down to bracket to cool the video card. We'll see how it performs later on in the review. The side panel has ventilation holes for your video card, and a 120mm intake fan with bright blue LEDs. At the back, you see another 120mm fan, an exhaust. All of the three included 120mm fans come with a 3 pin to Molex adapter. This is extremely convenient if you want a tidy case, and/or want to control the fan speeds.

Tool Less Features

Drive and expansion card installation is completely tool less. This type of system was first implemented in Cooler Master's Cavalier and Centurion towers, and proved to be very effective. For external drives, just insert the drive, slide the locking mechanism to the right, and lock it by moving the small tab downward.

For expansion card installation, insert the card and lock it down with the bracket. For hard drives, just attach two rails to each side of the hard drive and slide it in. Installation was breeze, taking only 25 minutes to move a complete system into the case. The only thing that could ave been improved to make installation even easier would have been a removable motherboard tray.