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assemble a system inside a case this small might look like a job for a professional, but when it comes to the Bitfenix Phenom you
could not be more wrong as the inside space is well managed. Securing the motherboard
to the tray is the easiest job, thanks to the soldered standoffs you
find on the tray. The PSU fitting area is quite big, and allows you to
hide all the useless cable you might have, even though it would be
better to use a modular PSU so that the cables would not take any extra space. Drive bays are very easy to use, thanks to the tool-less rails
which are already in the HDD cages, and as long as you use a dual-slot GPU, you
will not have any problem on that side either, unless it is longer than 330mm. As
far as the CPU cooling is concerned, the Phenom can fit tower coolers as high as 175mm, so you should be able to overclock your CPU with an aftermarket cooler, without any particular fuss. If you encounter any problem, you should try and look
inside the instruction manual, which is quite complete, and shows you how to capitalize on every little feature of the Phenom. With a little patience and some cable management skills, the Bitfenix Phenom can fit high-end rigs
and hold them at manageable temperatures. The only flaw we found during
our assembly process concernes the 5.25" slot as even though it is clearly there, you can't really use it for what
it was originaly meant to beused , since the front panel has no openings whatsoever. We think it would have been better to create a hinge system, so that the frontal panel could rotate and
allow for a usable DVD/Bluray burner.
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