Internal Tour

As with most cases the side panels come off with a simple twist on an ever present thumbscrew. The panel itself slides off smoothly and since the whole frame (apart from that of the front panel) is steel then the former mentioned feels rather solid.

The first impressions of inside of the Coolermaster case are one of a quite Spartan look, which is not an issue when taking the price point into account. Also the lack of rubber grommets on key areas of the wire management is also not an issue, due to the same conclusion.  However what we have noticed though they lack grommets there are indeed in all the right places and are large enough to fit a thick 24-pin ATX PSU cable. However let us look at other areas before we address the wire management in detail.

The internal 3.5 inch drive cages can fit around nine hard disk or solid state drives, with three being supported on removable caddies.  Moving into the three 5.25″ bay areas, these are also tool-less, sporting the usual locking mechanism for chassis of this product price point. We could describe the rest of the features like the PCIE backing plates, 120mm rear exhaust fan and the PSU hole, but do the consumers realy wish to hear about them, giving that this is a budget case and as one can plainly see by the images below that there is nothing special (but in turn nothing wrong either) about them?

We thought not, let us move onto what we are really here for, this being the Wire management and ‘Water Cooling’ features.

As we mentioned before, the inside of the case may look Spartan, however all the wire management holes are in the right place, for example the PSU cable hole is right after the Power Supply Unit itself and as plainly shown the motherboard tray plain supports lots of clips in order to tie the consumers cable on to. Essentialy what we are saying is that though this may be market as a budget case, there is no excuse at all for sloppy wiring on behalf of the end-user.

We can slo see that the CPU managment hole is larger than that of the CPU area itself, which is great for motherboards that still use a MCH (Northbridge) and any after market coolers.

As we can see by the images below the top wire management section, certainly has a eight-pin EPS feature. THe second image shows that though there is certainly room for a radiator on the inside-albiet a slimline like the XSPC RS 240MM, there is certainly no room for the fans to go internal as well.

We thought that it would be prudent to check on this issue, by re-reading the enclosed instructions. Indeed this does bare our theory out that there is no room for the coolnig fans internally. However judging by the forementioned instructions the radiator would have to be screwed in by the following manner:

3rd Party Fan Grill———120MM FAN———through the top of the case———-into radiator, as born out by the photographs below.

As plainly shown by the instructions the end-user would require eight screws for the above system to work, however none are supplied with the case itself. Another slight oversight with this would be that if the fans are external, then they need to be powered right? If we have this in mind the fan power cables will then need to go from outside of the case and connect to the motherboard, however if we give the reader a quick reminder than we can gleen that there is no hole present for the three-pin fan power cables to go internally.

Lastly we move onto the enclosed accessories and as we can see there are a number of differing screws present here

Thats it for the internal tour folks, we would have loved to show you fitting in an internal radiator, however with the abscence of the much needed screws we cannot do so. Let us now move onto the conclusion of the Coolermaster Centurion Six Chassis.