CM Storm Trooper Full Tower Chassis Review

As we have mentioned before, the Storm Trooper is a full ATX design, so naturally there is tons of room to play with inside, we can also see the cable management holes which have rubber grommits to keep everything nice and tidy.

On the other side we can see the main bundle of cables that come down from the front I/O panel along with the power cables for the drive bay fans. The motherboard tray has an enlarged cut out for access to the CPU heatsink retention plate.

With the hard drive cages set out in the supplied configuration, 3 optical drives can be housed into the case, and the fans would draw air in from the side.  The Drive cages can be turned round to draw air in from the front if you wanted.

The floor of the case has a large area for PSUs and will happily accommodate larger supplies.  Two rubber grips ensure minimal vibration is passed from the supply to the chassis reducing any resonant noise.  To the right is another hard drive cage which can house a further four 2.5″ drives.  This can be removed and in its place two fans or a double length radiator can be installed for a double loop water cooling setup.

Supplied with the case is a rear 140mm exhaust fan, although this one is not lit or controlled by the fan speed adjuster on the top of the case.

Mounted on the top of the case is a huge 200mm 23dB fan for drawing heat out the top of chassis.  This fan can be removed and in its place, two 120mm / 140mm fans can be mounted.  Alternatively there is adequate space to fit a triple length rad for water cooling.

On the sides of the two hard drive cages is a thumb screw which when removed allows for the cage to slide out.  To turn the cages around 90 degrees is a case of removing some more thumb screws on either side of the chassis and relocating towards the front and rear of the cage.

Above the uppermost drive bay is a small PCB via which power is fed to the front I/O panel and a SATA cable connected for the X-Dock.

With the cover removed, the accessory tray is secured with a screw either side; removing these then allows the tray to slide out. It would have been nice to see this secured with thumb screws but in retrospect, you could replace these with thumb screws from the included set.

With all cables disconnected form drives and the fans, the entire drive cage can be removed for maintenance and easier drive access.