Cooler Master CM Storm Scout 2 Mid-Tower PC Chassis Review
Peter Donnell / 12 years ago
With the side panel off you can see that the chassis comes fitted with three cable management cutouts, each fitted with large rubber grommets to keep things looking neat and tidy, a decent size cutout in the mounting plate for easy installation of CPU coolers and a 120mm fan mounting point in the base of the chassis for addition air intake behind the power supply. The black paint job continues throughout the chassis, given the whole chassis some extra style and it keeps the build looks slick and stylish throughout.
In the front of the chassis we have two hard drive bays, with three bays at the bottom and a further five in the middle, although you can remove them if required to allow for much longer graphics cards. Each bay comes with support for the clip on drive rails that were included in the box, but the chassis also comes pre-fitted with a tray for your SSD drive. At the top of the chassis there is room for 3 optical drives or similar 5.25″ devices, each bay comes fitted with a quick lock system, great for quick and easy installation/removal of your devices.
In the back you can see the pre-installed 120mm exhaust fan and the two water cooler or cable routing holes above that. Each of the 7+1 expansion port cover below that come fitted with quick release thumb screws, allowing you to quickly install or remove your graphics cards, sounds cards and other devices, the covers for each slot are fully replaceable but the only one that offers any ventilation slots is the vertical expansion port on the left.
The back of the chassis shows things still look neat and tidy here, but what has to be my favourite feature of this chassis is the colossal amount of space back here, with more than enough room to get your cables in order, or should you wish to, you could easily just stuff them all behind the mounting plate without too much worry about space, add to this the massive recess in the rear side panel and you have one of the largest cable management areas I’ve seen on a chassis.
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