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IN WIN D-FRAME MINI Exterior
The IN WIN D-FRAME MINI can be placed on any of its six sides: the orange rubber bumpers will support it. The open latticework of hand-welded aluminum tubes is visually confusing at first: it’s not obvious where things go.
Although the case can be oriented any way you want, this side, with its integrated handle, is probably the best candidate for “top of the case”, and it’s how I’ll orient the case for this review. Just to the left of the handle you can see the two PCI slot openings: the motherboard is oriented vertically, with the I/O ports at the top. No, IN WIN does not include any PCI slot covers with this case.
These three removable plates are the mounts for your drives; each can accommodate a 2.5″ or a 3.5″ drive. There is no support for an internal optical drive of any sort. Just a few months ago, the NZXT H440 was the first case I’d reviewed with no optical drive support, but now it’s common.
Looking at the back of the case we can see the cable routing holes in the motherboard tray– a solid 1/8″ thick slab of aluminum– as well as the mounting area for the power supply at the right of this image. The power supply can be screwed in from either the top or the bottom of this mounting area.
There’s right at 3/4″ of clearance between the motherboard tray and the glass panel over it. Not too tight, but 1″ would have been better.
The front panel is sparse: from the top, there’s a power button, a recessed reset button, two USB 3.0 ports, audio ports, and a drive activity LED. While the power supply LED is blue, the drive activity LED on this review sample was yellow.
Let’s take a more detailed look at this case in the next section.
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