As you will appreciate, from the height of SpineRex (591mm) this case is a full-tower. Although we have 11 x 5.25” drive bay covers – 5 of these will have the capacity to function as an optical drive bay. Removing a drive bay cover is actually very easy thanks to the way Enermax have designed the case – see below. Each drive bay cover has a honeycomb mesh finish to it and foam for air/dust filter.

Around the back of SpineRex we have an opening for the PSU at the bottom. 4 x rubber grommets for tubing/cabling, 7 x PCI expansion slot covers (not ventilated) and a cut-out for mounting a 120mm fan. SpineRex surprisingly doesn’t come with a pre-installed exhaust fan. Both side panels are secured via thumbscrews.





At the top of SpineRex the controls are split up. The power and reset with activity light are the immediate controls that you encounter. Whilst behind these we have 1 x USB3.0, 3 x USB2.0, headphone and microphone jacks and an E-SATA port. The section in front of these ports is concaved and provides an area for storing small items.

The USB3.0 port here uses a USB cable – so you will need to plug this into your I/O on the motherboard.





At the top of SpineRex we have a ridged roof that can be slid back. There is the option to have this closed or open – closed will protect against dust but open will allow you to let heat escape, perhaps if you have a top mounted fan installed. Incidentally SpineRex doesn’t come with a pre-installed top mounted fan.



Finally, on the underside we have 4 x feet that each have rubber mountings. These feet can either be positioned as pictured or turned 45 degrees to point outwards. The underside also features a mesh cut-out for the PSU – this also has an air/dust filter.