Cougar Challenger Case Review

Inside the Cougar Challenger Case

Both panels are attached to the chassis using black thumbscrews. The motherboard tray has a huge hole for you to access the backplate of the CPU cooler without having to remove the motherboard from the case, several holes for you to route cables behind it, and several metallic clips for you to fasten cables behind the motherboard tray using cable ties.

Figure 11: Overall look

Figure 12: A view behind the motherboard tray

Figure 13 gives you another overall look inside the case. Expansion cards are fastened using regular screws, but at least they are black. On its default configuration, the Cougar Challenger case supports video cards up to 11.4” (290 mm) long. You can, however, convert the top hard drive cage from 3.5” to 2.5” (more on this on the next page), allowing you to keep the top hard drive cage while supporting video cards up to 12.6” (320 mm) long. Or you can completely remove the top hard drive cage to fit video cards up to 16.1” (410 mm) long.

Figure 13: Overall look

As already explained, the power supply is installed at the bottom of the case. Note that it can be installed with either its bottom fan facing up or facing down, so you can decide if you want the fan of your power supply pulling air from inside the case or from outside of it. As already shown, there is an air filter for the power supply fan.

Figure 14: Power supply compartment

The case supports the installation of one 120 mm or 140 mm fan on its bottom panel. When no fan is installed, you can install a power supply up to 11.8” (300 mm) deep. When a 120 mm fan is installed, you can install a power supply up to 7.1” (180 mm) deep. Finally, when a 140 mm fan is installed, you can install a power supply up to 6.3” (160 mm) deep.