Cooler Master Storm Sniper Black Mid-Tower Case Review

Installing The Hardware

Accessories for the Sniper seem a little slim, but for the pretty much tool-less case its all you need. You get a set of 5.25 to 3.5 adapter rails, a handful of wire ties, motherboard and fan mounting hardware, and a second set of standard case feet in case you dont like the server style feet.

Installing parts into the case was a snap, and went very quickly. The interesting part came when I needed to start hiding wires. The wires for my PCP&C Power Supply are fairly long. I ended up stashing them in the lowest hard drive bay. With the bulge on the side panel one could hide the wires there, but for the short time this was going to be in this case I didnt want to waste the wire ties.

Looking at the back side, the motherboard tray cut out for the CPU back plate didnt quite line up with the Intel DX58SO socket placement. If youre going to be running a Core i7 system this could be the case with your set up.

The StormGuard was easy to do as well, and it does a very nice job of holding things in place.