Sharkoon T9 Green Value Edition Case Review

As this case is a ‘Value Edition' we are going to be installing a system which will reflect the budget oriented enthusiast audience.

Fitting the power supply was very simple and there is certainly plenty of space for larger power supplies. In preparation for installing our cooler of choice, the Antec 920 … we removed the rear case fan.

Installing the Motherboard stand-offs was easy. However, much to our surprise there was one less stand-off than needed for a Micro ATX board and as can be seen we had to install the motherboard without a single screw. We raised this issue and it seems to be an isolated problem. Once fitted we installed the Antec 920 to the rear fan slot, for convenience.

The optical drive and our two 3.5″ HDD's were also easy to install, with the use of the two brackets for the HDD's. However, we had a few problems installing our OCZ Vertex II 60GB SSD, as unfortunately the screws that Sharkoon supplied did not fit the OCZ 3.5″ bracket, leaving us with no option but to leave the Solid State Drive on the bottom of the case.

There is unfortunately little space at the back of the case for cable routing, especially when using a power supply with braided cables. However, for the smaller fan and SATA cables you could make use of the included cable ties and make this look very tidy indeed.