External Overview
From In Win
“The exterior of the Fanqua will surely stun audiences with its unique dark metallic paint and glowing fan light. But hidden behind all that, users stumble onto even more features. The chassis employs a 22cm side panel fan that accelerates air in and out of the chassis. Air travels through the vented front bezels and ventilated floor panel providing unsurpassed thermal cooling. The Fanqua is easily expandable with screw-less I/O slots making modification a breeze. Also, air is filtered through built in mesh panels keeping out the dust and keeping components clean.”
The Fanqua can boast up to nine external 5.25” drives and up to three 3.5” internal drives. In total there are for fans to keep this system cool, one of them being a 220cm side panel blue LED fan with the three others being 120mm.
The exterior of the case is painted completely in black, except for the rear panel. The front panel houses the nine external 5.25” drive bays of which the top can be used as a 3.5” bay. Each of the bay covers can be easily removed without any tools or even opening the case. They simply pop off if you push in on both sides of the cover.
The side panel houses the 220mm blue LED fan which rests on the four green rubber rings on the outside of the mesh. Alternatively you can replace the 220mm fan with two 120mm fans which will be held onto the side panel by the eight rubber rings.
The top of the case would be plain if it wasn’t for the fan attachment on top of the case. The fan housing allows the fan to cool the case, while not taking up any internal space.
The rear panel is similar to that of any other case. While it’s obvious that the case supports a bottom-mounted power supply I’m still not sure that the quality of the metal seems to be that of other In Win cases.
Of course you have to have your side panel thumbscrews. They are, however, only on one of the side panels.
I think I mentioned something like this once before, but it would be really nice if some NEWER hardware could be installed in these cases for the reviews. We have (in this review) a Slot1 (possibly SlotA) motherboard, and it has an ISA slot. Wow. That's old. I understand that it's for illustration purposes, but using somewhat current motherboards would allow the use of somewhat current video cards. Modern video cards can have problems fitting into some cases due to the length and overall size of the video card. Using hardware from before the AGP slot doesn't really help shoppers visualize their gear in this (or any other) case. Not only that, but using such ancient hardware really makes the whole review look -well- kind of cheesy, and “low budget” for lack of a better term. Again, I understand that the largest motherboard available is used to illustrate the interior size of the case, but most (if not all) mid or full size cases can handle a full size motherboard. Personally, I'd be more interested in knowing how a GTX285 fits in the case, or if a large CPU cooler (like the Noctua NH-D14) will fit correctly. We all know a 10 year MB will fit…..
Nice enough case shame about the shite hardware you put in it … If you can't or wont get with the times then maybe you shouldn't be reviewing hardware I mean come on who the hell is still using socket7/slot1 combo mobos and sound blaster lives 5.1
InWin made qualitatively, but the producers again too lazy to make a qualitative filter dust. Per month case completely clogged with dust. I do not support clean your computer of dust, I just put the dust filter.
http://www.boulten.com/inwin.html
http://www.dustend.com