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Mentor Crystal - Plexi Case Review

Cases & PSU/Cases by jmke @ 2003-04-22

A no-name High Quality plexi case? Is it possible? Mentor is not a very well known brand but they do deliver some impressive products. This "Crystal Plexi" sure is a looker. Find out if it easy to build your system in this see-through extravanganza...

Installation I

Installation

As clear as can be, using the gloves paid of, no finger prints to be found:

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You can see everything, even these not so pretty details on the power/reset buttons:

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The speaker is situated at the bottom of the case and provides a nice beep when booting your system (if the wires are connected correctly of course):

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The motherboard needs to be installed using these metal stands that are screwed into the Plexi backplane:

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Next we attached these metal babies on our hard-drive:

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Then we installed the hard-drive in the rack, you have to remove the front plate and the whole drive-cage to do this:

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Installation of the PSU was the easiest thing to do, it will work flawlessly with any standard power unit, but if you have an exotic one you can be faced with problems for fitting it in there:

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