Installing your kit into the Hoplite is done in a breeze thanks to the cable management design options and tool-less mechanisms within. There is plenty of space around the motherboard and Hoplite even had room to accommodate the gigantic 12" ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme Plus cooler that is mounted on the NVIDIA GTX 480.
Installation went as planned
With the Hoplite you get a small bundle of accessories. Included we have various screw types that have been carefully labelled to ensure that installing all of your components into the case can be done efficiently. We have a handy instructions manual, speaker and some plastic cable ties as well as the larger fabric cable tidies too.
The accessory kit that you get with the Hoplite
There are different options available when installing 3.5" (or 2.5") media within the Hoplite. I opted for the lower drive bays which are situated beneath the 120mm fan at the front. All you have to do is drop the drive into the frame provided, place a couple of screws in and slide the frame/drive back into the bay making sure the SATA ports connect to the back of the PCB. It couldn't be simpler.
Installing 3.5" HDD into the lower drive bay
As I pointed out earlier, the Hoplite has poor expansion slot brackets. To free up a slot, you have to ply the bracket off by twisting it. Once a bracket is removed, you can no longer fit this back into place should you need to. So if you happen to move things around you are going to have big gaps unfortunately. Why Enermax didn't choose to go with interchangeable brackets here remains a mystery. It makes no sense.
Expansion brackets have to be twisted out
