Anidées AI-6B Mid-Tower Chassis Review

When installing our test system, we picked the largest card that we could think of to demonstrate the benefits of the removable hard drive cages; namely AMDs 6990.  When the cage was installed it was virtually impossible to get the card in at any angle, but with the cage removed installation was a breeze, plus this also allowed for the front mounted fan to pass air through the case in a more streamline fashion.

Even though this case is a back to basics design, there is still enough space behind the motherboard tray to lose al those nasty cables, albeit not in as tidy fashion as we would normally achieve.

Even though this is a mid-tower chassis design, I did feel that the PSU area was a little bit cramped and a little bit more space would have been a welcome sight, especially as larger PSUs would consequently have less space to work around. The Velcro strap however did prove useful and effective at the same time hold our PSU in place very firmly.

Access to the drive bays for connecting up SATA cables etc is just as easy as installing the drives.  There is ample room behind and the overhang given by the drives allows for 90 degree cables to be used.

With the door feature on this case there is no real panic to find a black optical drive to blend in with the case. After all if you’re not using it, then you’d most likely have the door closed.  Just to the left of the drive there is the sprung clip that secures the door in place, pushing this in releases the door.

Every man and their case these days use green blue or red LED’s for the power and activity lights.  Its nice to see something different – no matter how little or insignificant it may seem.  It all adds to the clean fresh look of the chassis design.