THE PROMINENT 5 EXTERIOR

The all-black Prominent 5 measures 508mm in length, 207mm in width and 479mm in height and as you can see it comes with a plastic cover placed over the front and top (easiest spots to get scratched).

As you can see NEXUS has once again used a simplistic yet elegant design for their case (it even looks better than the R version).

The company LOGO is pretty much the only thing placed on both side panels.

Most of the front fascia is perforated for better airflow inside the case.

The Prominent 5 has a total of five 5.25" drive bays, one of which is configured for either an 3.5" drive or an 1.44" FDD.

There are two brushed aluminum stripes on each side of the front fascia going all the way from the top to the bottom.

The lower section of the front fascia is also perforated so naturally there should be a front fan behind it.

If you remove the entire front fascia you will see that the interior is covered with air-filters so you don't have to worry about dust getting in from here.

A white low-noise 120mm intake fan is placed at the front.

At the top right of the front fascia we see the HDD activity LED.

The power button doubles as the power LED while right above that we see the closed I/O which includes 2 USB 3.0 ports, 2 USB 2.0 ports, mic/headphones mini-jacks and the reset button. Compared to the original Prominent 5 released over a year ago the updated version lacks the Firewire/eSATA ports.

Moving at the rear top end we see several air vents (kinda reminds me of the ones the Mercedes SLR has on each side).

The rear features the same high quality black matte paint as the rest of the case.

Unfortunately there's no rear exhaust fan pre-installed but you can install your own 80/90/120mm fan.

As expected from a midi tower we see a total of 7 PCI expansion slots.

The PSU spot is once again placed at the lower part of the case.

Turning the case upside down we see an extra fan spot which you can use with an 80/90/120/140mm fan.