No surprises here - this a very basic box. The front only has an On/Off switch:

The CD/DVD ROM drives pop out from behind the top two doors that flip down - once down, the button to close the drives is virtually inaccessible due to the way the door flap opens - IMHO a pretty stupid design. You can close the drive directly by pushing on the drive tray, so it's not terrible.

The front sliding panel hides four USB, mic and headphone ports; there is a blank for an optional firewire port:

The back shows the power supply, exhaust fan, four USB, VGA and audio ports and blanks for the PCI slots.

Removing two screws from the back opens the side panel:

The layout is fairly neat, with cables tied to the case. There is room in the case for two 5.25" drives, two hard drives and one 3.5" drive. A closer view of the motherboard...

...shows the compact layout. Note that this box includes three fans - an 80 mm on the heatsink (four wire), a 92 mm exhaust fan and an 80 mm inside the power supply. These are all temperature controlled - you hear them spin up at full speed when you power up, then after a few seconds, they power down to a very quiet setting. In normal use, I have not heard the fans spin up beyond their quiet setting; even when I was running Prime 95, the fans did not speed up. This is a quiet box.

A look at the back shows the four PCI slots and fans:

Towards the front are the two 5.25" bays, one 3.5" bay and the hard drive mount - you can mount a second hard drive directly below the hard drive shown - four drives will use up the four SATA ports on the board.

The LiteOn power supply is a 300 watt unit - from what I can see, this is a standard 24 pin ATX with the -5v line missing.

Overall this is a no-frills budget box with a stripped down Foxconn motherboard - what could I build this for?

• Foxconn motherboard: $80
• 2 GB RAM Crucial RAM: $50
• Barracuda SATA 160 GB HD: $55
• ATX Case/PS: $30
• Two 5.25" DVD ROMS: $40
• Intel Core Duo 1.8 GHz Retail: $72
• Mouse and keyboard: $20
• Windows XP Home: $60