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Case, Power Supply, Fan Reviews
  Product:     Cooler Master CM Media 260 Case  
  Price:     $159 (CAN) / $135 (U.S) 
  Supplied By:     Cooler Master
  Author:     Skaal-Tel
  Date:     September 19th, 2005
  Rating:     star star star star star star star star

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The Cooler Master CM Media 260 Case has provisions for a single optical drive (referred to as an ODD in the manual) a single floppy drive, and 2 hard drives. The floppy drive is ordinarily concealed beneath the left door. The optical drive has a spring-loaded stealth metal door on the face of the case, with a button which was dead on for both of the drives I tested.

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North Water Xtreme Xchangers
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On the right side of the case the door conceals the USB, Firewire and audio ports as well as the power and reset buttons. As you can see, my power button is conspicuously missing but nonetheless, the switch is still present and working.

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North Water Xtreme Xchangers
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Moving on to the internals of the Cooler Master CM Media 260 Case revealed the various cages for the power supply, hard drives, disk drives, and the AGP/PCI riser cards. As you can see, there is provision for one AGP and two PCI cards on this case. The internals are laid out in a fairly ingenious fashion; the power supply (if equipped with a 120mm fan on the bottom) will draw cool air in from beneath the case and exhaust it directly out the side of the case. The case, despite its small size, can accommodate completely normal power supplies internally, routing the power cord out the rear with a supplied bracket and grommet to prevent it from rubbing and eventually wearing thin. I did run into a problem with the power supply on my install but I will cover more on that later in this review.

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