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Features
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The
front of the Virgo is fairly plain, but features a large intake grille and a
temperature monitor. The 5.25” bays are covered by a single door, and it
manages to leave a little bit of clearance for knobs and buttons behind it.
The front door is easy to remove and disassemble. Looking at the LED
display, there is a lone jumper on the lower left side of the LED PCB.
Removing this jumper causes the display to read in Celsius, and leaving it
on causes the display to read in Fahrenheit.
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lone feature of the solid side panels is an 80mm intake fan with a very nice
three dimensional grille. Modder’s mesh is also in between the fan and
grille, to prevent large objects (like fingers) from reaching the spinning
blades. The left panel is secured with thumbscrews, and the right with
standard screws. One outstanding thing about this case is the quality of the
paint. Even though it’s only white, it has a high gloss to it with a minimum
of orange peel. A touch of rubbing compound, scratch remover, then some car
wax would make it shine like a mirror.
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rear has an interesting design for the rear 120mm exhaust fan. I’m not sure
exactly what kind of advantage is being obtained by having these slats on
the grille like this, but I know I’d prefer higher uninterrupted airflow.
The PCI brackets are the standard knock out type, along with the I/O plate.
Two knock out game ports are also provided underneath the exhaust grille.
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Inside the Virgo, there are almost no frills. The only tool free item in the
entire system is the snap in 120mm fan mount. There is a liberal amount of
rolled edging so your hands will not get chopped up too bad working on this
case. I still managed to get a small cut on my right pinkie finger though.
The power supply, a Raidmax 420W model, is a welcome addition and provides
plenty of connectors for the system.
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One
of the items that I didn’t like was the 1/8 inch plugs that are provided to
connect the headphone and microphone jacks in the front of the case. They
are purely pass-through connectors, and you’ll lose your rear jacks when
these are employed. Raidmax has at least provided a pass through PCI cover
to ease the install.
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The
temperature probe is another interesting item. You can see it in the above
picture, just in front of my thumb. This is an older style thermister heat
probe. These work just fine, but they limit how well they can be installed
in the CPU area. The side fan is also temperature sensitive, as it has a
thermister wired in line.
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