Review by Paul Machado on
May 27, 2002
Product Supplied By: A-pro Innovation
Retail Price: $175 USD
Features Continued:
Removable Motherboard Tray:
The removable motherboard tray allows easy installation of a motherboard. With
the complete tray out of the case you can install your motherboard and connect
your PCI and AGP cards and then simply slide the tray back into the computer.
This case accepts all AMD, Pentium 3 and 4 motherboards with the exception of
Micro and Flex ATX motherboards. As I mentioned before the tray is easily
removed by unscrewing the 4 thumbscrews which hold it in place.

Removable HD Tray:
The extra removable HD tray allows you to hold 5 HD's vertically for all
of you storage freaks. The tray is located right behind the two 80mm fans on the
front of the case which will help cool down all of those HD's. Now if you only
have one HD the air form the fans won't really be obstructed but if you fill up
all five slots a very minimal amount of air will only be able to pass through.
The HD tray is held in place by three thumbscrews and is easily removable. Just
unscrew all of the screws and slide out the tray. Great for myself since I have
to swap HD's alot.

As you can see in the last picture on the right the speaker is conveniently
located right below the HD tray and out of the way.
Sound Activated Neon Light:
All of the above features I have gone through are all standard and come with
everyone of these cases. However like most cases there are some options
when purchasing the case. The option was to get a sound activated neon light.
Although it is extra when purchasing the case it is another great feature
especially for this case considering it has three windows. What I have done is
included a video from the A-pro website of
the light in action. Click on the picture below to see this light in action.