LanBoy Air Internal Design

Stripped downward to the blank essentials what y'all are fundamentally left with is a skeleton. The only non-removable parts in the LanBoy Air include the peak, bottom and minor side doors.

The beauty of the LanBoy Air is that there is no correct or wrong way to go virtually it, at least far as we tin tell. Past this I mean y'all can remove pretty much anything you desire without having to do it in some special order.

We felt the all-time place to start was to remove the left side panel equally this is typically the offset step for any computer instance. With this panel removed the user is free to run across the internals of the LanBoy Air.

In our opinion, the simplistic arroyo of the LanBoy Air's internal design plays to its advantage. The motherboard tray is easy to access without having to remove it, the power supply cage has plenty of room in the lesser of the case, and the bulldoze trophy seem far enough abroad from everything else that at that place won't be whatsoever compatibility issues.

Beingness a modular case it is possible to relocate the power supply muzzle to the top of the LanBoy Air if you lot and then choose. We preferred to go out it mounted at the lesser though.

There is a total of xi drive trophy which includes support for six internal 3.v" drives, three external 5.25" drives, and two internal bottom-mounted 2.5" drive trophy. The three.5" drives use the AirMount brackets which nosotros'll expect at in better detail when going over the installation process on the next page.

Something we found pretty cool was the ability to install the 5.25" drives such as DVD or Blu-ray players in one of three configurations. While these drives can be installed in the conventional way, which sees them forepart loaded, it's also possible to install them sideways facing the tray either left or correct for access at either case door.

The bottom mounted 2.five" drive bays which are primarily designed for SSDs use the included silicone grommets to insulate the drives.

Inside the LanBoy Air users volition find a total of 5 pre-installed fans. At the front of the instance are two variable-speed 120mm blue LED fans with stepless control knobs. There are other two 120mm TwoCool blue LED fans mounted in the left side panel for the graphics cards, with a 5th rear mounted 120mm TwoCool blue LED fan. This makes upwardly for v of the xv total possible fans that tin exist installed on this case.

Then those wanting to install water-cooling kits will exist happy to know at that place's room to top mount a dual radiator which can be accessed via the read water cooling grommets.

Those with 3-way SLI or CrossfireX on their heed will find ample room for such setups every bit there are eight expansion slots in total. The maximum graphics card length supported according to the instance's specs is 16" (406 mm) and given that the longest gaming graphics card (Radeon Hard disk drive 5970) is 12.25" (309mm) in that location seems to be plenty of room to spare.

Moving on to the removable motherboard tray which supports Mini-ITX, microATX and Standard ATX motherboards you will notice that there's a massive hole which provides rear admission for CPU coolers that would otherwise crave motherboard removal for installation.

Due to the customizable design of the LanBoy Air, there are no cable management holes featured in this tray. Rather the user is complimentary to road the cables however they come across fit and we institute sufficient room backside the tray to hide backlog cabling.

The maximum CPU libation summit with the 120mm fans installed in the case panel is 150mm, which volition be fine for most coolers. For certain more farthermost heatsinks such as the Prolimatech Megahalem (158.7mm) the solution is to exercise away with these optional fans which results in max CPU cooler clearance of 160mm.

At the bottom of the case nosotros accept the ability supply cage that as mentioned before can be relocated to the top if y'all prefer that. The flexible muzzle design tin can accommodate for power supplies of all sizes, even the actress-long mammoths that Antec is famous for.