Buidling your own?

Click on the logo. Tech Reports (TR) takes you through how to build your own computer, step-by-step. You can't fail.

The arrows indicate the CPU cooling tower support brackets. X-shaped brace underneath board. Excellent and simple installation system

Notice the strap down PSU, outstanding! Very solid, although they recommend that if you travel the case a lot, use some screws as well. BTW, all the mounting posts in the case were already installed in the correct holes for this mobo. Initially I thought I might miss not having a pull-out mobo tray, but with this much open space, it really didn't matter, and in the end, with a cooling tower in there, one usually can't pull the tray out anyway.

The ASUS Sabertooth mobo back panel. The case has another four supported USB connectors on top. Above you can see two of the case fans, the one on the left, as the case is oriented right here, cools the HDs

I used a razor blade to spread the thermal paste thinly and evenly on both, cooler and cpu. When I matched the two I rubbed them a bit on each other to get the paste to spread more.

Cooling tower (thermal paste supplied), HDs, and 6 GB DDR3 RAM in place.

The tool-free card clamps work very well, For money reasons, I am still using my old video card, that does what I need, until I can upgrade to a new DX-11 capable card. I went with just the one supplied fan for the cooling tower. With all of the other large fans in the case, that will be more than enough

All wired up and wide open spaces

A comment on the 5.25 devices clamps (upper right), interesting but only one-sided. I found it best to insert a couple of screws on the backside of the DVD R/W drive where there is no clamping device. IMO, that one is not fully tool-free