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