The rear of the case is pretty standard to what is seen on most cases these days. The power supply however must be mounted by removing an exterior bracket, screwing it to the PSU, then inserting the bracket with the attached PSU and screwing the bracket back to the case. The rear of the case has an internal 120mm cooling fan which uses two steel circular fan grills, one on each side. The case itself doesn't have a grill cut into it like most cases do. In industrial uses of 120 mm fans, the two grills used in this case are the standard method of making these fans "finger safe". The round wire of the grill actually provides better air flow and doesn't attract as much dust and dirt as a punched grill does. This is a much better idea.

The bottom of the TJ05 has 4 little fold out feet for stability. The feet are a perfect size and they do their job well, but they aren't oversized like I've seen on some other cases.
To talk a bit about the exterior on a whole, this case is long, very long compared to most standard cases! Measuring 617mm long, it is slightly over half a meter! As most standard desks are about that deep, this case will take up the entire depth of your desk plus a little out the back for wires to hang out. If you pull your desk out from the wall a little, you shouldn't have a problem. The overall exterior quality is superb, the paint job is excellent, the front bezel is very eye catching and the window just tops it all off. If you don't have room for the length of this case, and I think everyone will have a desk that is at least 600mm or 24 inches deep, then a say buy it anyway and find the room! You definitely won't be disappointed!

Now on to the inside of the case, where most of the fancy features are housed! To start at the front, there are four 5.25" drive bays at the top, the coverings for these when they aren't in use are all solid aluminum which is brushed black to blend in with the rest of the exterior bezel, no cheap plastic here! Below those bays there are two 3.5" drive bays which are external for things such as card readers or floppy drives (do we still use those?). Below these is a removable cage which houses an additional 5 hard drives! This cage is also rotated 90 degrees so it faces the side of the case. As I mentioned on the right side of the case there is a clip where an 80mm fan can be installed to cool the drives in this bay. The very front of the case's interior also has a 120mm intake fan which blows over the hard drive area as well. When the left side of the case is first removed there is a swinging plate that runs the entire depth of the lower window area of the case. This plate has the option of installing two 80mm fans in it, two hard drives, or a combination of one drive and one fan. If you chose to put a fan(s) in it, the plate is directly in line with the ventilation slits in the window so they will vent out/in very easily. There is also a plastic support device which has slide out supports for cards in the PCI/AGP/PCI-E slots on your motherboard. For those who don't wish to use this door, it is easily removed by pulling up on one tab then pulling it out. For the sake of being able to see the interior of this case better in my pictures I have removed this swinging plate.

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On the bottom of the case you will see a large accessories box. When the lid is slid off of this it houses all the floppy and hard drive rails, as well as additional hardware such as the keys and mounting screws for the case. One improvement I'd like to see with this box is for it to be made slightly larger to accommodate the 5.25" bay rails as well. This is another wonderful idea. How many times had I wanted to add that new burner or hard drive and wondered where I put those screws or drive rails.

  
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On the lower back corner there is also a "case open" status switch. This gets plugged into your motherboard to provide you with a warning and log in your BIOS as to when the case was last opened. This switch uses a small button that protrudes through to the exterior of the case, and when the side door is slid on the lip of the door pushes the button in.
Moving up, you will see a large "block" full of adjustable tabs beside all the slots. This is Silverstone's toolless design for the slots. It houses large tabs which gets pushed towards the installed cards and holds them very firmly where you would normally put a screw. To slide the tab away, you simply push two pieces of plastic together which releases it from the toothed plastic rail it slides against, and you can easily pull the tab away for removal/insertion of a card. As you will read in the installation section of this review, I had one very minor issue with this design method.
Above the slots there is a 120mm cooling fan with a chromed steel grill on either side of it. Silverstone has included 120mm fans for both the front and rear of this case. As you may, or may not know, 120mm fans offer very superior air flow over 80mm fans while keeping the noise level relatively low at the same time.

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The motherboard tray in this case is fairly standard and is compatible with SSI, ATX, Micro-ATX and Extended ATX form factors of motherboards.
Near the top of the case on the side with the motherboard tray there is a large metal clip built right in for clipping your wires out of the way. This clip is also covered in heat shrink to make sure it won't cut or damage any wires, yet another small but very helpful detail in this case.

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