Case Assembly
Before you start to assemble the case you are going to want to set everything out like you saw I did on the previous page. Also organize all of your screws and mounting materials. Also make sure you have at least 45 minutes to an hour to assemble the case, because that’s how long it will take. When I was organizing all of the hardware I looked at one bag of mounting screws and wondered why EACH SCREW was individually wrapped. This is a real pain, especially since these specific screws are used most in the assembly. I would suggest unwrapping each screw 1 by 1 before you start assembly. Another thing I noticed was the names of the parts and mounting hardware. Usually parts are labeled A, B, C, D, etc or something similar. Check out some of these part names, 2006-ACIV-18V1, 3013-LAC-T55. Names like that make things really confusing, especially when a lot of the names are alike.
Ok so make sure you have the directions and you can get started. I’m sorry to say, but these directions are horrible. They look like something from the 1980’s, they are very hard to read and the pictures…err illustrations are really bad.
So to get things started you want to find the case feet and stick them to the bottom of the base panel. It’s really hard to see from the directions which side you actually put the case feet on. To figure this out look at the large holes towards the center of the case, the side with the bigger opening is the bottom. So from there you want to stick on the PSU mount supports and then attach the 4 corner blocks and 2 side panel blocks. Once completed it should look like this.
Next install the motherboard standoffs, they go in the large holes in the center of the panel. There are 9 standoffs total.
After you have the motherboard standoffs installed you can start building the hard drive cages. Each cage is made of 4 pieces and is screwed together. Each cage can hold up to 4 hard drives, that’s 8 total! Next you want to mount you hard drives in the cages. Once you have your hard drives installed you can install the cages in the case. Sunbeam does include a long screwdriver to make installing them fast and easy.
The next part really baffled me, you take the other 3 panel pieces and mount them in between the 2 hard drive cages. Wait a second, what about our optical drive? Nowhere in the directions does it say anything about the optical drive, it just all of a sudden appears in the illustrations after a few more steps. What you want to do is build the center panel first, install your optical drive, then install the hard drive cages. This is also flawed because how are you going to know where to line up the optical drive if the front panel is not on the case yet? I decided to go without an optical drive since I’ve been installing everything with USB flash drives for the past few months.
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I don't think this product will sell well, if it is meant for an HTPC,it will stick out like a sore thumb in the home theater setting, and will distract viewers with the UV.
I don't think this product will sell well, if it is meant for an HTPC,it will stick out like a sore thumb in the home theater setting, and will distract viewers with the UV.
Agreed unless you don't use any lighted fans but who would do that with a clear acrylic case.
Even if you didn't have the lighted fans, you'd still see all the hardware and fans running and dust collecting inside this acrylic case. Also it would still stand out against the usually matte/shiny black or silver dvd players and the likes
Since its main use is for a a HTPC using regular fans would be bag since you being using it in the dark. I mean who watches the boob tube with the lights on?
I know i do. It's actually better for the eyes, because the wall behind the tv gives you depth
Agreed unless you don't use any lighted fans but who would do that with a clear acrylic case.
Even if you didn't have the lighted fans, you'd still see all the hardware and fans running and dust collecting inside this acrylic case. Also it would still stand out against the usually matte/shiny black or silver dvd players and the likes
Since its main use is for a a HTPC using regular fans would be bag since you being using it in the dark. I mean who watches the boob tube with the lights on?
I know i do. It's actually better for the eyes, because the wall behind the tv gives you depth
Agreed unless you don't use any lighted fans but who would do that with a clear acrylic case.
Even if you didn't have the lighted fans, you'd still see all the hardware and fans running and dust collecting inside this acrylic case. Also it would still stand out against the usually matte/shiny black or silver dvd players and the likes
Since its main use is for a a HTPC using regular fans would be bag since you being using it in the dark. I mean who watches the boob tube with the lights on?
I know i do. It's actually better for the eyes, because the wall behind the tv gives you depth
Funny that you pay attention to a wall when watching using your TV.
Funny that you pay attention to a wall when watching using your TV.
you're not concsiouly paying attention to the wall, like i said, your eyes are using the wall subconciously as a reference, giving depth.
you're not concsiouly paying attention to the wall, like i said, your eyes are using the wall subconciously as a reference, giving depth.
Funny that you pay attention to a wall when watching using your TV.
you're not concsiouly paying attention to the wall, like i said, your eyes are using the wall subconciously as a reference, giving depth.
I also watch lots of things with the lights off and already have a lit up mouse and keyboard i do want a horizontal acrylic case just like the old custom modded origonal xboxs. id like my PC to go right next to my consoles except with its wicked graphics card visible to show them whos boss 🙂
I love clear electronics i would have every colour of the rainbow in controllers if i could this is ideal for me and with 4 fans seems like a decent price for sure even though the fans will probably become averagely loud shortly.