Please keep in mind as we describe the HS01 Pro that the case is designed to be used either as-delivered or upside-down; we’re looking at it in the as-delivered orientation. But yes, upside-down: Its removable bottom feet also fit the top of the chassis, and removing them from the bottom allows you to place its vented top cover there. Two ring magnets seen at the centers of the side panel’s bottom edge are placed there for that purpose, and Montech’s product page for the HS01 Pro even stages a photo of how the case looks with its glass panel on the right side and the half-wrap light bar near the top.
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Also visible above are the magnetically attached dust filter and three manufacturer-supplied intake fans, which are “reversed,” in the sense that these draw air from the frame side of the fan and expel it from the open (blade) side. Hiding the frames beneath the fans in this manner gives the case a cleaner interior view without sacrificing the convective assistance that comes from building with the fans blowing upward.
A pair of USB 3.x Type-A ports, a single Type-C port, headphone and microphone jacks, and power and reset buttons reside beneath an ARGB accent bar in the HS01 Pro’s as-delivered configuration. A window on the power button lights up to indicate that the PC is turned on, and the microphone jack has a stereo connector just in case you decide to reassign its function (in your system’s audio applet).
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Flipping the case 180 degrees, as you’d expect, puts these features at the top.
The back of the case features two factory-mounted 120mm ARGB exhaust fans, a power plug that feeds an internal extension cable to the power supply in its hidden power supply bay, and a removable seven-space PCI Express card slot panel that can be rotated to place cards vertically. (Note: The case does not include a vertical card brace or the required riser cable for vertical GPU mounting. You’re on your own.)
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The black-on-black makes it hard to see, but the card bracket is flush with the back of the case, and the screw tab protrudes out the back of the case. The holes on the side of the case frame are designed for passing a screwdriver through to the screws of the slot tab.
Also visible is a cover panel that surrounds the lower fan frames, making the fans appear recessed, and a removable filler panel that respaces the HS01 Pro from ATX to MicroATX, along with the lower connector holes for use with the rearward-facing connectors of Asus BTF and MSI Project Zero reverse-connector motherboards.
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The hole for the rearward-facing connectors of ATX-size Project Zero and BTF motherboards can be seen through the vent holes of the ATX-to-MicroATX filler cover, which we’ll remove before installing our own ATX board. We can also see a column of screw holes at the front of the motherboard space that are designed to hold an included card brace.
A tray that crosses the CPU socket area opening is designed to hold the builder’s choice of one 3.5-inch or two 2.5-inch drives.
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Six of the ring magnets that we saw on the bottom panel (the feet covered the bottom’s corners) hold the vented outer panel over the top panel’s triple-120mm fan bracket. An opening in the bracket that’s more than 415mm long can fit every 360mm-format radiator we’ve seen, and the 92mm of space above the motherboard is wide enough to hold a 40mm-thick radiator core between two layers of 26mm-thick fans.
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A pair of covers behind the right side panel hides a bunch of other features. Below, we can at least see that the front/right cover has mounting holes for two more 2.5-inch drives, and that one of those is straddled by a set of holes for a second 3.5-inch hard drive to be mounted on the opposite side.
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The power supply bay is behind the metal cover, at the top of the right frontal area, and the plastic cover behind that space appears to have been hiding a disorganized mess of cables.
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Pulling some of those cables out of the way reveals the back side of the PWM/ARGB-powered hub, shown in close-up below. The other side features all the PWM fan headers and power controls.
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Changing our view angle lets us better see the PWM fan headers and, while we’re gazing around, the four black screws that hold the power supply bracket just below the top of the case.
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Here’s a picture of the parts we mentioned as being removable, including the power supply bracket, the plastic cable cover that hides the powered fan/ARGB hub, the ATX-to-MicroATX filler panel, the small drive tray that sits behind the CPU socket, the rotatable slot panel and its installation-gap cover, and the big panel that hides the power supply and two additional drives from being seen through the vents on the right side panel.
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