Internal Design

The Scout 2's internal design is adequately basic, but information technology's well laid out. We really like that the gunmetal grey version has a black interior as it provides a nice dissimilarity.

Expansion support includes three exposed five.25" bays, vii hidden three.five" bays, two two.5" trophy (converted from one 3.v" drive bay), vii standard expansion slots and an eighth vertically-aligned slot for I/O brackets.

Cooling is managed by a unmarried rear 120mm fan that features ruddy LEDs that can be turned off. That is the extent of the pre-installed fans, which is i of the weakest packages we have seen in recent times, though because the quality of this example and its $90 asking price, we understand certain sacrifices had to exist made.

Having less cooling gear out of the box isn't necessarily a bad thing as you have more options for what fans will exist installed and where. In that location is plenty of flexibility hither as a pair of 120mm height fans can be installed forth with a pair of front 120mm fans, two 120mm side fans, a lesser 120mm fan and finally a 120mm hard drive muzzle fan.

Other internal features include tool-less 5.25" bulldoze trophy that make it unproblematic to install optical devices. Likewise, 3.v" drives tin can also be mounted using special tool-free brackets.

The seven 3.5" bays are separated into two cages: the bottom one supporting iii drives and the meridian one supporting iv. Yous'll take to sacrifice the larger top cage if you want to install graphics cards over 11.3" (287mm), but if it comes to that, the Spotter 2 has you lot covered as information technology supports cards up to xv.7" (399mm) long.

Unsurprisingly, the motherboard tray has a pigsty beneath the CPU socket for simplified heatsink installations, and there's a ton of space to conceal your cruddy cables. It should also exist piece of cake to feed your liquid-cooling tubes into the example courtesy of the 2 inch-broad holes in the top rear.

The Spotter two can handle heatsinks up to 6.iv" (162mm) tall. Nosotros expected a little more headroom from a case that measures nine.1" (230mm) wide, just the Sentry two will still accommodate most high-finish air coolers.

There isn't much else to talk about inside the Scout 2. It may not exist the most luxurious chassis effectually, but it's a solid package for $90 and we tin't really error it for lacking features such equally a fan controller.