Interior

Opening the side panel, you find the internal layout of this gaming case. The Supermicro S5 configuration includes two 5,25“ drive bays, four 2,5“ drive bays and six combination bays, which can house either 3,5“ or 2,5“ drives.

Each 5,25“ can be configured to accept a removable media drive, such as DVD or a storage devices, such are 3,5“ HDD.

The four 2,5“ bays are housed in a removable cage. If there are not enough drive bays for you the case ships with two additional removable cages, which can hold three 2,5“ or 3,5“ drives.

The 2,5“ drive cage is positioned in the middle by default to permit installation of longer graphic cards. It can be removed. You will need to do this if your graphics card is longer than 320 mm.

The steel used for the drive cages feels thin and does not look so strong. They do they job well once they are inside of the case.

The chassis can house up to nine fans. Two 120 mm or 140 mm fans can be mounted on the front of the chassis. The total of three 120mm or 140mm fans can be mounted on the top.

One 120mm fan can be mounted to the rear end and one on the bottom. Two 120mm fans or one 140mm fan can be mounted on the side panel of the chassis. That is a lot of cooling power.

The chassis also supports a water cooled CPU heat-sink. A 120mm radiator can be placed over the rear fan. There is a place just under the top of the chassis for the water-cooler 240mm radiator. The Supermicro S5 supports ATX, micro-ATX and mini-ITX motherboards.