Towards the back of the case there is a 140mm rear exhaust fan and there are placements at the top for installing 3x 120mm/2x 140mm/1x 230mm cooling fans. The top also has the ability to house 1x 360mm radiator or 1x 240mm radiator – though only the thinner types (more on this in the clearance section).



Over on the other side of Interceptor there are 4x 5.25” drive bays and each have tool-less design mechanisms for attaching devices. These knobs just need to be pushed in to fix the device in place – there are pins on the other side of each knob.

Beneath the optical drive cage there is a smaller cage – this is the back of the 2.5” HDD storage and because this area offers hot swapping (there are SATA ports on the other side for drives) there is a PCB with SATA ports for connectivity and Molex is required to power these drives/slots.



Likewise the HDD storage has PCBs on the backside of the cage to allow hot-swapping. As shown earlier, the accessibility is from the front of Interceptor. There is a PCB for 2x3 – offering SATA ports and fan headers for even more functionality. The two front fans are actually powered via the bottom PCB and as a result must have a Molex connector attached from the PSU in order to operate.



We’ve taken a look at the Interceptor both inside and out – now we will install our XL-ATX system into the case to determine how easy the process is and if we encounter any problems.