In Win Mana 136 Mid-Tower Chassis Review
Chris Hadley / 13 years ago
The main side panel of the Mana 136 has a textured matt black finish with a slight recess to the inner most part of the panel. Within this recess we find the In Win logo and branding to the right and to the left is space for fitting two 120mm fans on a metal grill. Held in place by two thumb screws, the panel slides off the case with ease and can be locked in place with the case lock hole on the rear side.
On the rear side of the motherboard tray, the case has a completely plain side panel with a simple groove for pulling the side panel off with. like the main side panel, this panel has two thumb screws holding it in place.
On the top of the case we find space for two 120mm fans offset to one side of the chassis. With this offest, there should be amicable room to still fit a double length radiator to the top of the chassis without fouling the rear I/O of the motherboard.
The front of the Mana 136 has adopted a fully vented design with a mesh grill set into a gloss black plastic shell. Below the front panel connectors are three optical drive bays with easy to remove covers and slightly further down the In Win logo sits in the middle of the lower grill. Whilst this styling my not be like everything else we see with matt coloured finishes, we gloss plastic sets everything off and overall the design is great to see.
The front I/O consists of two USB 2.0 and a single USB3.0 port, the usual microphone and headphone jacks and to either side the power and reset bottons.
On the back of the chassis starting at the top we have the I/O plate which sits very snug to the top of the chassis, although as we’ve seen, the two top fans sit to one side of the case, which should allow for double length rads to be fitted with ease. To the right of the I/O are two watercooling hose holes, however we do note that the case doesn’t have any grommets to fit these holes once the metal plates are removed. In between these is another hole through which the USB3.0 cable passes through – this is something that we are very happy to see as for a long while we’ve seen cables passed through the water cooling grommets and this can become an inconvenience when they are used for larger hoses.
Moving down there is a 120mm rear fan and seven expansion bays all with fully ventilated blanking plates. Finally we find the power supply located at the bottom of the chassis.
On the underside of the Mana 136, we find a removable dust filter to the rear of the case under the power supply and towards the middle and front the two sets of screw holes for mounting 2.5″ drives.
