What is really awesome about X-Fighter is the presence of screwless latches to remove the side panels.
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Figure 10: One of the screwless latches that hold the side panels.
In Figure 11, you can see the reverse side of X-Fighter right panel. As mentioned before, there is no fan attached to it, however it uses a duct in order to be compliant with Intel Chassis Air Design Guide, a standard created for the Pentium 4 “Prescott” processor (which heated far more than previous Pentium 4 CPUs).
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Figure 11: Right panel.
In Figure 12 you have an overall look inside X-Fighter.
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Figure 12: Inside X-Fighter.
What immediately caught our attention was the presence of two 80 mm fans on the lower section from the case, in charge of cooling down the video cards. In Win does not say anything about their speed, airflow or noise level, and they must be installed directly to the power supply, as they only have two wires each, so you can’t monitor their speed through a monitoring program. You can lay down the wall containing the two fans by simply sliding a button. This wall is permanently attached to the chassis using hinges.
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Figure 13: Inside X-Fighter with wall laid down.
As you can see, some plastic parts are lime yellow, which may not fit the taste of all users.
The rear 120 mm fan can be seen in Figure 14. As mentioned before, In Win doesn’t say anything about its speed, airflow or noise level, and it has three wires so you can monitor its speed using your favorite monitoring program, provided you installed it on your motherboard, of course. It is interesting to note that this fan is attached to the case using a screwless mechanism.
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Figure 14: Rear 120 mm fan.
X-Fighter has individual plastic mechanisms to hold daughter cards, shown in Figure 15. These mechanisms are thicker than usual, and maybe they are stronger than those cheap mechanisms used by so many cases. Only time will tell if they are really stronger.
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Figure 15: Screwless mechanisms for holding daughter boards.
