Setup

The SilverStone SST-B032F has a nearly tool-less chassis design. You can take apart the case by using the plastic clips that lock most of the major components together. The only part of the setup that requires screws is the installation of the power supply unit. Even PCI/AGP cards are held into place by plastic locking clips similar to what we saw in the NZXT Guardian case.

We built a system using a Gigabyte Pentium 4 Titan 667 Series GA-8GE667 Pro motherboard and an Intel Pentium 4 processor running at 3.06GHz. The Gigabyte Pentium 4 Titan 667 Series motherboard has a standard ATX form factor and is pictured here.

The first step is to take apart the chassis. You can remove the sides of the case by unlocking the rear clips that hold each panel into position. Unlock the clips by pressing down on the top clip and up on the bottom clip. Both side panels of the chassis should be removed since the motherboard needs to be installed into the system.

The next step was to install the Gigabyte motherboard. On the right side of the case, you'll see the back of the motherboard tray. The tray is secured by two more plastic locking clips. Unlock these clips and the motherboard tray comes right out. Kudos to SilverStone for making the task of installing a motherboard an easy one. Not a single need for a screwdriver as of yet. As described earlier, the motherboard tray has a set of standoffs that are already in position that allow you to simply push a board into place. These standoffs make installing the board a simple act of pushing the board down onto the motherboard tray until the board locks into place. No screws needed here either!

Once the tray is returned back into position, we went ahead and connected all the various chassis cables to the board.

The next step in our chassis setup was to install the drives for our system.In order for you to install the various drives into the system, the front panel needs to be removed. This panel comes out by pushing on the pegs that lock the panel into place on the inside of the chassis. Some of the pegs on our review sample actually broke off during shipment but hopefully you won't run into that problem.

Before a drive can be installed, an appropriate set of rails need to be affixed to the side of the drive. At the bottom of the inside of the case is a toolbox containing rails and various screws that you may need for the case. You can use the side diagrams to help figure out which rails go with which drives. All the rails are clearly marked with letters. The rails lock into place on a drive by wedging into the appropriate screw holes. No screws are needed. Here is a shot of the rails secured onto our DVD-ROM drive:

One important thing to note here: The optical drive rails need to be secured on the bottom corners of the drive. Installing the rails could scratch the metallic surface of the internal DVD-ROM drive if you're not careful. (yes.. we scratched ours!). it's not too big of a deal but it would be nice if the installation of the rails didn't result in scratches on the drive surfaces.

Here is a shot of the hard drive with rails attached:

With the rails in place, installing a drive is a simple matter of pushing the drive into their respective drive bays.

Here are pictures of the DVD-ROM drive placed into position:

Here are pictures of the Hard Drive placed into position:

Before the front panel is secured fastened back into position, the top drive bay panel needs to be popped off to accommodate the DVD-ROM drive.

We're nearly done with our setup now. All that's left is to connect the cables and install the power supply. The power supply easily fits into the upper rear portions of the case and is held into position by four screws.

There is no platform supporting the bottom of the power supply unit so make sure that the unit is securely held into place by the screws.

In order for us to manipulate the wires inside the case, we had to unlock the cross bar that was in placed along the bottom midsection of the left side of the case.

[Home] [Previous Page] [Next Page]