Woot! The plater has finally finished with our parts! Let's get a look at these things...

As you can see, the chrome plating turned out looking excellent! The Volcano 9 looks damn spiffy, as does the Tweakmonster northbridge cooler I sent. The CDROM and floppy cases look great also, as do the fan grills. Now that we have everything we need to get this case put together, out come the latex gloves and let's get to it!

Here we see the Volcano 9 coupled with a blue LED fan and a freshly chromed fan grill, along with the northbridge cooler, now installed on the Gigabyte board and wow do they look awesome! The processor I chose is a 1266mhz AMD Athlon protected with a Tweakmonster CPU spacer, and the RAM is a 256MB stick of PC3200 that was supplied to me by my buddy James over at XtremeDDR. Granted this is not the fastest combo I could have used but like I said... we are going for general all around good performance and absolute top-notch looks here so this should do nicely. Time to mount our drives into the case bezel, now that they are reassembled with their freshly chromed covers.

One really nice aspect of this Clearpc case is the fact that the entire front bezel slides completely out to allow easy access to the drives. It comes with all of the mounting hardware needed, and the drives were installed easily in a few minutes. For the hard drive in this case, I chose to go with a 40GB Maxtor D740X Ultra133, as I have had nothing but good luck with every one I have ever installed. They are reasonably fast and quiet, and the price is right.

All of the fans being used in the case are blue LED ones that I picked up from my buddy Jimmy over at Casecooler.com. To help in preventing dust buildup inside the case, I added a small fan filter behind the front intake fan. This is always a good idea in a case where dust and dirt will show up easily such as this one. As you can see, I took the time to color match the front of both the CDROM and the floppy drive by using some blue metal flake paint. This adds a nice look to the front of the case and helps to color match them with everything else for a complete custom look.

Now that our drives are installed, let's get the front bezel back into the case and finish up our wiring!