BitFenix Survivor Case

Completed System
This case will house Mini ITX, Micro ATX and ATX form factor motherboards and is very simple to do so. Some of the motherboard standoffs are already pre-installed but extras are included in the bag of screws and fittings.

There are also cut outs in the motherboard tray for aiding with cable management.

Optical drive installation sadly is not a tool-less design and does involve taking the front panel off and sliding the drive into place. Once done so, its a matter of using an old fashioned screw driver though i guess you could use thumb screws if you so wish.

Hard drives are very simple to install and is a design that’s been seen on many cases in the past including offerings from CoolerMaster and just require you to be flexible with the drive bay holder and to lock the drive into place using the pins that the drive holder include.

Graphics cards are once again very easy and require little effort. Once you have chosen the expansion slot(s) you will be using, you can use the tool-less thumbscrews to loosen the slot off and pop the ventilated cover out. Once this has been done, you can line your card up and use the thumbscrews to lock it back into place. Also, if you require extra space for those stupidly long cards, you can remove the top of the hard drive cage to give extra room instead.

Not much can be said about the power supply installation barring that it’s self-explanatory and due to the way that the hard drive cage is laid out could house some of the biggest, baddest PSU’s on the market including some of the Thermaltake ToughPower power supplies which as some of you may know, are huge and could probably power your whole street.

A feature that we keep seeing lately is USB 3.0 becoming more standard on cases of today and they simply require the connectivity side of things to have a cable (or two in this case) to be passed through a hole in the rear of the case and to loop back into your rear I/O panel.