Aspire X-QPack: A Lanparty Dream
by Joshua Buss on July 2, 2005 1:15 PM EST- Posted in
- Cases/Cooling/PSUs
Internal Design
Removing the cover of the X-QPack is as easy as unscrewing the three thumbscrews in the back and sliding it off. In this shot you can still see the protective film covering the inside of the three transparent windows.
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Another of just the cover, this time with the protective film removed.
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This is one of the most useful shots of the X-Pack, as it gives you the best overall idea how the case is arranged internally.
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We can immediately see the two distinct areas of the chassis; the higher of the two for the drives, power supply, and exhaust, and the lower for the motherboard, add-on cards, and, as we found out after we put a system into the unit, excessive cable clutter.
Before the power supply is taken out, the case seems like it'd be impossible to work in, and in practice we found this to be quite true.
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Once it's taken out though, there is actually quite a bit of free space inside the QPack. Here we can see all of the possible locations of the computer's drives. There's space for two hard drives, two 5.25", and one more 3.5", be it external or internal. It even looks as though a courageous modder could squeeze another one or two hard drives on the opposite side, or possibly components for a water-cooling setup.
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Pannenkoek - Saturday, July 2, 2005 - link
[OT] Can anyone from Anandtech explain what happened to both the game console performance speculation article and Anand's blog entry on the same subject? Called by a lawyer?Sunbird - Saturday, July 2, 2005 - link
I would really love a SFF case that is just plain black, but with a nice handle on top to carry it with.... then I'd just need a monitor with a handle too!Cookie Crusher - Saturday, July 2, 2005 - link
The nice thing about the case is the little bit of extra room it provides. It could really be a case modders dream in the sense that a water cooling system is possible. I think it's probably a worthwhile tradeoff that this case is slightly larger than a traditional SFF case like a shuttle. Nice review, I'll be taking a closer look at this case because of it.Tamale - Saturday, July 2, 2005 - link
yeah getting this review online was a little bit messy.. haha.. I think it's ok nowand I have to agree with you guys.. this little thing is sweet
hoppa - Saturday, July 2, 2005 - link
Ah, finally, a review of a nice-looking case on AT. And, I must admit, a very, *very* nice case at that. Long gone are the days of the 102 dB "2XTREME SPIDER ILLUMOCHASSIS ZINC-COBALT FUSION SUPERDESTRUCTO CASE FORM HELL"Joshua, the image for the sound benchmark is blank.
-andy
Rapsven - Saturday, July 2, 2005 - link
Seems like a good buy.