In order to get our system into the Ammo 533, we had to do a little bit of prep-work. First off, the front panel needed to be pulled in order to accommodate our lone optical drive (when hard drive space is cheap and plentiful, there's little reason to bother going disk to disk). Along with that, we removed the lowermost hard drive cage (though it wasn't really needed) to put the hard disks in. Apart from these two things, perhaps the most difficult part of the installation came in trying to wrestle the motherboard on in there, onto the standoffs we had to install. While it was mentioned earlier, it's worth noting again that it was an absolute PITA to get the board down past the wiring.
Once it was in though, things tended to be simple. Hooking things up for the front panel was a simple measure of picking the right spots for the front panel headers (well, in this case top panel), correctly hooking up the split power LED, and then plugging in the side slung ports. Rather than make us users re-wire the darn ports ourselves, Coolermaster included pre-wired blocks for USB/Firewire as well as AC97 and HD Audio pinouts - as well as going as far as providing individual, properly labeled pins, if need was be. After this, securing the add in cards (and dropping on an SLI bridge in our case) came only before installing a PSU, and firing it up. The high quality chassis made it a simple matter to get everything going on the first try, without fear of a cheap tray flexing to short something out (believe me, it really screws with your head when it does, and I've had it happen!)
With all of our hard work gone and done, we're just left with a few snaps of the case for you to enjoy - yes, it's a little busy, but that's because this case will be holding our full gaming setup until some modifications on another are completed.
