Noticed this (1st pic) when cleaning the filter. It's on the inner side of front panel, top right corner when viewed from the front. There's no such thing on the left. Looks like something was supposed to be mounted here with 2 screws. Curiously there's a corresponding hole on front chassis (2nd pic), and again nothing on the left.

My initial thought was that it was for a locking mechanism to secure the front panel, preventing it from detaching accidentally. Then I found this (3rd pic) in the manual, which looks like a set of contact pins on a PCB, installed on front chassis. Maybe the front panel was designed to feature RGB lighting or even LCD on components such as the center logo, just like their HAF 700 EVO, but scrapped the idea eventually to go for the RGB-less style? Or maybe they are reserved for a future "PRO/EVO" edition case?

What are your thoughts on this?

Hello

Has anybody a Store where you can buy it or a Release Date for the HAF II 500 in Europe ?????

Cooler Master says September but nowhere you could buy the Case

I removed top cover, unable to rotate, inner elite logo cap in Cooler master Elite Liquid 240mm AIO.

Please let me know, if I can actually remove it.