Scan 3XS White Cobra - Interior Appearance
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The exhaust fan emits the enthusiast-pleasing blue glow, along with the two intake fans pictured below, that attempt to cool the mainboard and GPU area.
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As you can see, the bracket that the fans are mounted on hinges out, giving you full access to the interior. You can see it closed on the Blue Cobra, here.
Overall
I absolutely love the Blue Cobra in terms of appearance, the deep blue paint job befitting such an expensive and exclusive workstation system. The TJ05 is a steel chassis and fully laden the Blue Cobra - the heaviest of the two - weighs a slightly alarming 35kg (77lbs). It's not a system to be moved around too much, although unless you're taking them to LAN parties, as we did, you'll be safe.The cases are simple to work with and Scan do an exemplary job in integrating the SLI hardware into them. Cables are neat and tidy, extra power cable runs are easy to unclip and use, all the extra drive rails are supplied and with the cooling performance of the TJ05 and the supplied thermostatic fans, thermals when dealing with SLI are paramount and handled very well.
Tagan's TG480-U01 does excellent work on powering the systems, and the systems feel incredibly solid and well built, as tactile objects that look and feel the part. There's something to be said for getting something substantial, in return for a substantial amount of money, and you certainly seem to here.
Disk drives are mounted sideways in the TJ05, on supplied rails, so accessing the disk array is a piece of cake. The fan bracket is simple to manipulate and adding more optical drives needs nothing more than a Philips screwdriver.
It's a great chassis in my eyes, Scan choosing well in the provision of their SLI powerhouses.
