Installation:

The Quantum comes with all the screws and drive rails needed; they even included an extra battery for the front Control Center ... another nice addition.

The Quantum is a “tool free” case, which means that you won’t need to screw your hard drives and cd/dvd roms in place. Below you can see how the hard disk is mounted, just press the rails into the screw holes into your hard drive. Finally slide it in to the hard drive cage.

The hard drives mounted…

The same goes for the DVD burner…

Installing the motherboard was a breeze, it came with four pre mounted “push on” standoffs. But I removed those and used the supplied brass standoffs instead. This case was a perfect match with the motherboard, on numerous occasions with other cases I have had to struggle to get the holes on the motherboard to line-up. But with this case they where very accurately engineered. Unfortunately when I started to hook up the fans I noticed the lack sleeved fans, the cables ended up in a bit of a mess. Take a look at the picture below to see what I mean. I temporarily fixed some of the fan cables with a long twist tie, you can also see this in the followup pictures below.

Next I mounted the graphic card and it is also a tool free mounting solution.

Just pull a lever to the side and then up and mount the graphic card. A nasty little quirk; when securing the card it wouldn’t stay very firm in the slot. It was possible to wiggle the card a little when mounted. I suggest being extra careful when moving the case around so the card won’t come loose and perhaps even get damaged.

Here’s the graphic card mounted…

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