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BeanTech Igloo2 Review
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Supplied By:
BeanTech |
| Written By:
Rich |
| Price: Under
$140 to $160 |
| Written:
2/3/2003 |
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Beantech has devised a
great mounting system for your hard drives. The case comes with
special screws that bolt the hard drives through rubber grommets to stop
hard drive vibration from vibrating through the case. This should help
with noise and maybe even hard drive life. |
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Another cool feature of this case is the
pull out motherboard tray. I wish more cases came with these. If you
look at the platform that the motherboard bolts to, you can see beantech left lots of options to what kind of motherboard this case
will take. I have never seen so many mounting holes. |
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The first shot above is of the case
fully disassembled. There are already a lot of ideas brewing for the
mods that this case will be getting. The second picture is of the two
front case fans. Looking at the mounting place for the first hard
drive you can see there is a plate separating it from the rest of the
hard drive bays. I like the fact that beantech put ventilation holes in
this plate. The last picture shows the back of the fan controller that
is connected to the two front fans. Looking at the last picture, you
will notice that beantech went out of there way to route these wires
well. It's small details like these that really separate cheap cases
with high quality cases. |
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This case comes with a front header
wiring loom that disconnects to allow you to pull the motherboard tray
out without having to completely disconnect the front header. This is a
helpful time saver for people with cheaper motherboards that don't
have everything labeled with a silkscreen on the motherboard or even
if your motherboard does have it labeled it's a nice feature. |
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Beantech has gone one steep
farther with quality and separated all the screws you need into
separate bags. It's things like this that let you know that the
manufactures care about how there case is presented. Most cheap cases
just toss all the screws in one bag, leaving you to dig through a pile of
screws while you build your box. This touch is nice and will be helpful in the system assembly.
Last time I saw a manufacturer do this was with a seven hundred dollar Supper Micro rack
mount case. |
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The final picture shows you the clear
door beantech put in front of the USB / 1394 plugs that are stationed
in front of the case. |
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