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Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

Date: 2006-6-21

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When all the interface cables are attached, you only have to put the PSU cable out using these two things:

Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

The cable is attached in quite an ordinary way:

Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

Then you put the protective ring on it?/p>

Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

…and fix it in the hole:

Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

The second cable holder, if you need it, may be fastened under any of the top panel screws. As for expansion cards, the internal part of the holder seems to support a riser for PCI cards only.

Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

The graphics card slot is off the holder, which is not a defect. Judging by the snapshot at the manufacturer’s website, the graphics card riser is a separate thing. Unfortunately, I didn’t find any risers among the accessories to the case. The Cooler Master Media 260 must be targeted at system integrators rather than at the retail market. It’s not a problem for an integrator to order or manufacture necessary risers while the ordinary user has to order them at the case supplier if he/she needs to install a discrete graphics card or PCI add-on cards. In this case, the manipulations with the cables are followed by putting back the stiffness rib and the panel with the exhaust fans:

Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

There’s a fine mess of unused cables between the drives. If you are going to assemble your own computer in this system case, you may want to remove all the extra cables with a soldering iron. If you only need 3 Molex plugs, leave them (and one as a reserve), but remove all the rest. They are unnecessary and impede normal airflows inside the case. You can even go further and shorten the main cable from the power supply, but this is a job for experienced users who feel confident with the soldering iron and have a solid knowledge of what purpose each wire is.

After you’ve assembled the system, don’t be hasty to put the top panel down. Try turning the computer on without it to see if some strayed wire hasn’t got between a fan’s blades. This can particularly happen to the two exhaust coolers above the memory slots ?there are so many different cables around them.

The technical characteristics of the case are listed in the following table:

Cooler Master Media 260 HTPC Case: One Step Away from Perfection

That’s all about how you assemble a computer system in a Media 260 case. I’m going to test it now.




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