Installation report
Now we come to the exciting part – the installation report. Even after hundreds of computers built, it’s still a pleasure for me every time. To bring a little color into the game, I took the liberty to install my 3€ RGB mod next to the illuminated Toughfans. The following hardware shall find a (temporary) new home in the Tower 200:
Out of sheer enthusiasm I even forgot to document the first steps. CPU, RAM, SSD and backplate of the AIO were mounted outside the case and then the small board was put into the case.
A short excursion or test: Even fat air coolers of the caliber of the BeQuiet! Dark Rock 4 Pro easily find room in the small Tower 200!
For the test, however, we want to install a fancy AIO and after I replaced the pre-mounted top fan with a lighted model and looked at the space conditions, I was already skeptical whether that should really fit.
Rightly so, because in order to accommodate the already bottom-mounted AIO, the top fan had to move to the other side of the cover. At least there is enough space under the cover, but it’s still a shame that you have to compromise again because of a few millimeters.
Above the PSU, it would have been easy to get by with the few millimeters less that were missing at the top.
A disadvantage of the ITX format is the space and the partly questionable placement of some ports. The USB 2.0 header (needed for the RGB controller of the Toughfans) sits ABOVE the PCIE slot.
Imaginatively, the necessary cable was then routed behind the board:
And from there pulled directly into the right cable slot. The big clamps are ingenious, no Velcro cable tie can keep up!
Who would have thought it, the USB cable actually fits through the small gap under the graphics card.
There is more than enough space for cable management:
You can either leave the cutout in the PSU cover open (for installing large graphics cards) or close it if you’re mounting a smaller graphics card:
To illustrate the space available, I briefly “hung in” the 31.5cm long and 2.5 slots thick RTX 3070 Ti SG from KFA²:
For reasons already mentioned, however, this was then immediately removed and swapped for a 4060 compatible with the mounting style.
The pre-installed fans were both moved to the back of the case.
All cables hidden, all side panels mounted – time for the first boot.
It’s alive!
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