A Closer Look – Interior
The interior of the Project 7 is nice and clean, with a large cut-out behind the motherboard for mounting your CPU cooler, a tall covered cut-out for cable routing, and a full-length PSU shroud to help hide those unsightly cables.
In the top, you’ll find mounts for 2 x 120mm for or a radiator up to 240mm. There’s a good amount of clearance here too, which should make water cooling hardware easier to install, and there are a few cable routing cutouts to help keep things neat and tidy.
In the rear, a pre-installed 120mm fan is setup to remove heat from the chassis, but this could easily be swapped out for a 120mm radiator or AIO cooler if you wanted to.
There are seven expansion slots, with plenty of width to spare, so wider cards shouldn’t be an issue here.
If you love showing off your new SSDs, you’ll find two removable brackets on the shroud to keep them out on display, while the less visually appealing 3.5″ drives mount under the shroud.
Towards the front of the shroud, you’ll find a large cutaway, which will help you accommodate a full-height front panel radiator or extra fans.
Since there are no hard drive bays towards the front of the chassis, there’s a freaking huge amount of room for extra-long expansion cards, although this will be reduced if you install a thicker radiator, it’s unlikely even the biggest cards on the market will have trouble fitting here.
Behind the motherboard tray, you’ll find a reasonable amount of room for cable routing, although the PSU shroud means that most of the excess cable can be stored in the base of the chassis, so you won’t need too much space anyway. There’s also a good arrangement of cable tie loops dotted around the back, giving you lots of places to tie your cables down and keep things tidy.
Tucked towards the front, you’ll find two 3.5″ drive mounts. They are mounted a little away from the front panel so not to conflict with the fan/radiator mounts on the front panel. The whole bay is removable too, so if you don’t need it, you can free up extra room for a pump or excess cables.
The PSU has a good amount of room in the base, and there are four thick rubber mounts to help reduce any unwanted vibrations from the PSU.
The front and top panels can be pulled off, giving you access to the mounts, while the front panel also houses a full-height washable dust filter.
Nice review!
I have an E-ATX board 12 inch x 10.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 26.9 cm ) and Im wondering if would fit in this case
Nice case. I hope there is a better spot to hide that ugly LED strip. I was hoping to squeeze it into one of overlapping metal trims.
I’m not sure why but it really bugs me how much that graphics card is drooping on the right.
I agree with you. The overall look is good, with an interesting design that isn’t over the top and I like it, but that LED strip… It is just so damed ugly, what with being able to see all the LEDs etc. Given the frosted finish of the front ones I would pay a little more for them to be housed in a similar casing.
I thought my eyes were going off with the GFX card drooping! My minor uniform gene doesn’t like LOL
Also why does the review insist on calling it tempered glass? It isn’t, by its own wording: “acrylic side window”. Nothing wrong with it being acrylic, keeps the price and weight down, but please stop trying to make it into something it isn’t.
I do love the case, even considering getting one when i do my next major upgrade next year. I just hope I can gain access to those LEDs in the front to add my own controller in and make it more fancy 😀
Actually there are 2 versions of this case 1 has acrylic window and the other is tempered glass, this one is tempered glass version according to aerocool site.
i have an aerocool p7-c1 but when i pres the front buttons to chnage the colours on them it just stays green
why?