Cubitek Tattoo Pro Case

Testing

Everything from our test rig fit into the case, but it was a tight squeeze. The positioning of the side cutouts in the motherboard made them useless for routing cables, except for the SATA cables running to the HDD cage. The expansion card latches were useless, several actually popping loose of their mounts when I tried to push them into place. Thankfully, they can be moved aside and ignored in favor of normal screws.

As you can see, there is no space at all between the top of the PSU mount and the bottom of a standard ATX motherboard. This can make attaching header cables difficult if done after the PSU is mounted.

With a standard ATX motherboard, the edge of the board actually overlaps the cutout holes a bit. Getting the motherboard screwed to the standoffs required me to pull the front panel cables aside and hold them there with a finger.

Turning the system on, I immediately heard a loud grinding noise. After quickly powering it back off, I poked around a bit to try to isolate the cause of the noise. It turns out that the 140mm top fan was not secured to the case with any kind of mount, but simply stuffed inside the box created by the case top and grille. Thus situated, gravity caused the body of the fan to press down on the hub motor, making it and the blades scrape against the metal of the chassis. Because of the tight space, I could not put in pads or spacers to lift the body free of the lower grille either. I ended up disconnecting that fan altogether.

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