Revoltec Rhodium

Installation

The most hands on part of this install was the motherboard and the power supply, which are the only two things that require the use of a screwdriver. Once they are in then its plain sailing. Grab some of the drive rails and pop in your hard discs, grab some more and get your DVD drive in the right bay. The top slot of the case doesn’t allow an optical drive to enter, and is instead designed for a seperate adaptor that allows you to use a hard disc in there instead. To mount an optical drive you’ll have to take off the front facia which is something that you won’t want to do everyday.

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Now turn to the PCI cards and if you don’t have an 8800 you’ll be done in seconds. The tool-less mounting system on the PCI brackets is a little fiddly at times, and it gets a bit annoying when it sticks and you can’t see why. With a little patience and care the job will be done pretty quickly.

Next to the hard disc cage, you’ll find some slots which are for super long add-in cards. Baring in mind that there is enough space for 13” cards, not even an 8800 Ultra will be able to use these slots. Future-proof is one way of looking at it.

Once all of the different front panel plugs are in place and all of the cables are in, you’re ready to power on.

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Interestingly, there is no power LED connector, but it’s pretty obvious that your PC is on as the front bar will light up. Even more interesting is that to power the front LED bar is by two standard motherboard plugs. These then plug into a pass-thru molex (although one wire is missing so it won’t be useful for much) which splits into two connectors. This means that you can use one plug for your power LED, and then other for HDD, meaning that that whole will flicker when your HDD is being read which will look pretty cool.

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