Interior
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The X10’s interior is all black, which is a nice touch on a less expensive case. In the way of headers, the Gigabyte case has a USB3 header, a USB2 header, an Audio Header (which supports both HD and AC’97 audio), and a molex connector for the red LEDs, as well as the usual headers for the buttons and LEDs. The rear fan uses a 3 pin motherboard connector, and comes plugged into a splitter, possibly because of how short its cable is. Both of the top fans use Molex connectors.
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There is a hole in the motherboard tray for installing CPU Coolers which require back plates, which is good, because such coolers can be installed and removed without having to remove the motherboard. There is also an area behind the drive bays for hiding the cables. The fans are all sleeve bearing parts made by a company called Everflow.
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Two of the 5.25 inch and two of the 3.5 inch bays come with tool-less mounts. Personally, however, I like having my drives mounted in tight, and I often find that tool-less mounts are just too loose and the drives sometimes vibrate and rattle too much with them. We’ll see later whether that is the case with the X10 (pun intended). The bottom two 3.5 inch bays have rubber grommets in their screw holes, which helps to absorb the vibrations from the drives. There are also four screw holes in the bottom for a 2.5 inch drive, such as an SSD. The expansion slot covers are all stamped out, as mentioned earlier.
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