Internal Pattern

Equally mentioned, getting inside the Cubitek HPTX-ICE requires you to undo four small thumbscrews, which allows the door to be fully removed. This is like shooting fish in a barrel enough to do, but it's more time consuming than it has to be.

Inside, you'll find a massive motherboard tray that is non-removable -- though that'due south okay, given how spacious the HPTX-ICE is. Towards the front are 7 iii.5" drive trophy with ane 3.five" to 2.5" adapter for a pair of SSDs.

Above the HDD bays are five 5.25" bays and the lesser two are populated with an adapter for some other two 3.5" drives. In full, the HPTX-ICE supports v 5.25" drives, nine 3.5" drives and 2 2.5" drives out of the box.

Moving to the back, there are 10 ventilated expansion brackets and a power supply mount. There'southward also a 120mm black fan that uses a three-pin power connector and is rated at 38.83 CFM. Speaking of fans, at that place'south also a front-mounted 200mm blueish LED intake fan with a flow charge per unit of 57.76 CFM.

Cubitek as well installed a pair of 140mm bluish LED fans into the top of the case, and while they call these "outflow" fans, our review sample came with 1 mounted as an intake and the other as an exhaust. Both are rated at 49.05 CFM and use a 3-pin connector.

If that'south not plenty airflow, you can install a 140mm fan in the bottom of the case. Alternatively, the movable 3.5" difficult bulldoze muzzle can be placed here, freeing up the 5.25" bay surface area. Even with the HDD cage at the bottom, the HPTX-ICE has enough room for a 220m (8.six") long PSU, which covers just well-nigh everything available.

The case too has 17" (433mm) for graphics cards, loads of space considering the longest cards only measure around 11". Also, CPU coolers upwards to 7" (180mm) tall are covered.

For its size, the HPTX-ICE seems a piffling stingy on cable management. Unlike the Corsair 800D, the HPTX-ICE's motherboard tray doesn't provide holes for ATX boards, and so cables have to stretch further than they should. There also isn't as much room behind the motherboard tray as we would've liked. Companies such as Cooler Master solve this issue by being creative with concaved doors.

The HPTX-ICE is also missing a fan speed controller and some class of a tool-less design. Although Cubitek says it provides anti-vibration and tool-less elements for the hard drives, this is not entirely true. In that location is an anti-vibration pattern, merely it's far from tool-less. Each bulldoze requires four screws and four prophylactic grommets before being installed, and that calls for a screwdriver. That said, we like the anti-vibration implementation and tool-less or non, it works well.