That’s all about the accessories, so let’s go on dismantling the case further. Well, the only thing left for me to do is to remove the holder for the expansion card riser which does double duty as a stiffness rib.

First you should remove the cap that covers the fastening screws.

The cap is held by only two screws and is merely a decorative element. Then you can take out of the stiffness rib itself:

This will take some time as it is secured with five screws. Once you’ve removed the rib, you will meet another surprise that you may be already familiar with if you read our reviews of Thermaltake’s Bach and Mozart cases:

This is how the manufacturer connects the display to the mainboard’s USB header. And my recommendation remains the same: cut the cable and solder it to a normal connector without any adapters and also shorten the cable to just the necessary length. But don’t forget to detach the cable from the card with the logic before soldering.

There are a few more things here asking for a knife and soldering iron. For example, here is an indecently long cable that connects the display controller card with the Power button:

You should definitely make it shorter. And here is yet another exhaust fan:

It won’t take long to remove this tangle of cables with two Molex plugs and replace it with a standard 3-pin fan connector. When these cutting preliminaries are over, you can begin to assemble your multimedia computer.