THE RAIDER INTERIOR

The side panels are quite thick but they don't come with noise-absorbing coating on their interior.

As you can all see the interior of the tower looks quite spacious and is also painted black.

All four 5.25" bays come with tool-less mechanisms, still I’d also like to see an 5.25" to 3.5" adapter bundled with the RAIDER.

Right beneath the optical drive bays we see two 2.5"/3.5" drive cages inside which you can place up to six disk drives.

If your needs are covered with just three 2.5"/3.5" disk drives and you want to install one of the latest mGPU cards (GTX 590/HD 6990) then you can remove one of the drive cages.

I was somewhat surprised to see that the top drive cage is not entirely removable like with most cases, instead Bitfenix has only made the left side removable which is not a bad thing since it's a lot quicker.

To replace the front fans (if that time ever comes) you need to remove the screws found behind the front fascia and then access them from the interior.

The drive trays are quite easy to use but they are not very sturdy something that applies with almost every tower out there.

The mainboard tray has a total of 4 holes for cable management and one very large hole beneath the CPU space for easier swap of backplates.

Identical to the front 120mm fans the rear one is also part of the Bitfenix Spectre line.

All 7 PCI Expansion slots feature regular thumbscrews a solution which sometimes is a lot sturdier than a plastic mechanism.

Aside the fact that the RAIDER comes with mainboard USB 3.0 plugs i was very glad to see that these also come with USB 2.0 plugs hanging off them in case you don't have one of the latest mainboards with USB 3.0 headers.

The bottom air filter and the four pyramid shaped rubber feet are two nice additions placed at the PSU area.

You can mount yet another 120mm intake fan at the bottom of the tower (why let the air filter go to waste).

If you decide not to mount a top 200mm exhaust fan there's sufficient space for you to place a dual radiator for water cooling.