The Interior

As we move along we will take a look at the layout of the interior of the Mystique 631. On the right is a close-up of the tool free drive bay design. Once you have your drive in place you just have to slide the plastic mounting rail forward and press down on the small tab to secure the drive in position.

Now let’s look at the hard drive storage bays. Cooler Master has placed a 120mm blue led fan to intake air from outside. This fan should provide decent cooling for whatever drives you install here. The area that houses the hard drives is also aluminum and has several pre drilled holes to assure good air flow. To the right we have a WD 80GB SATA drive inserted into place in our case. You can see that the pre drilled holes in the aluminum serve as guides for our hard drive. It’s as simple as attaching a rail to each side of our drive and sliding it into place, very nice indeed.

 

These next images show us the 120mm exhaust fan, the PSU location and the tool free area for add on cards. The lever just below the fan controls the mechanism that is responsible for securing the cards that we add to our system.

Below you can see the Mystique with everything installed and running. The depth of the chassis could be slightly deeper in our mind but we did manage to fit our X1900XT inside with the power cable attached to the card. If we tried to attach the cable after the card was seated and secured it required putting too much strain on the PCI-e connector cable, so we strongly recommend connecting the cable before seating the card.