Another handy feature is the storage area for extra screws. I doubt many people need to swap around hardware while at a LAN party, but I suppose that does happen. The way I see it, keeping extra screws in there is useful in that you won't lose them at home. I normally scatter them all over my house; so keeping some of screws in the case would at least keep me from losing some of them.

There is a problem though with this setup, which is depending on your video card, you will have problems attaching this storage compartment.

As you can see above, the DVI connection (this is a MSI GF 5200) interferes with the storage compartment. If you choose to use it, either you're going to have to install the compartment part of the way (which will end up with it being dropped off during transport), or it'll have to be modded (by cutting it) to get it installed properly.

Internal Features

Like most of the exterior, aluminum is used throughout the interior. For the 5.25" drive bays, you have access to one side of the bays, since only one side of the case is removable.

Drive rails are used on one side of the drives (the unremovable side panel side), and if you tend to travel a lot, screws are used to secure the drives once you put them in.

One issue that can arise is if you choose to install an optical drive in the lower bay. In this scenario, it was a Plextor CDRW and an Abit NF7-M.

As you can see, the memory modules are arranged in a particular order to enable DualDDR, but this will prevent installation of the CD drive. The drive fits without issues in the upper two bays, but this is a possible compatibility issue for you to be aware of. Really, it can be any 5.25" device, and any other motherboard, so this problem is probably not exclusive to my setup.

For the 3.5" bays, a flip of a latch unlocks the bay from the case. This is a handy feature as you can pull the bay out and work more freely on it. Cooling is an issue here though. Although the 3.5" bay works like other Antec cases, there is no fan housing here. Considering that a lot of people use two drives, independently or in a RAID, there is no active cooling for them. 5400RPM drives are not going to be a problem, but 7200RPM, and the newer 10 000RPM IDE drives could potentially run into heat issues if more than one drive is used.

There is a 80mm fan mount included at the front of the case, though no extra fans are included with the case. To be honest, most stock fans are garbage, so you can choose which fans to install. I am not sure why they chose a neon green fan mount, since silver or an aluminum mount would look nicer, but at least it isn't vanilla beige.

There's room for another fan in the rear, though again, no fan is provided. Case modders who want to squeeze more cooling out of the case will probably opt to cut out the mesh grill, as it will impede airflow more so than a standard fan grill.

If there's one thing that bugs me, and this is the case with every Antec case I've looked at thus far, it's the lack of a removable motherboard tray. The Lanboy is relatively easy to work with, but a mobo tray simply makes life a lot easier when swapping out components.