This was an absolutey phenomenal product. I was iffy on getting it, but after a quick skim of all the positive reviews with high ratings, I grabbed it. Now for the rundown, as well as a detailed look at what it features and tips on building in it.
Update 2023-04-26
Guess what? I'm STILL using this case. It has gone through four builds and EVERYTHING is still running with no issue. If that doesn't tell you to buy this case, I don't know what will.
There is plenty of room to work where you need to.
Both right and left temepered glass panels come off, and utilize large, thick screws with grips on them making it a cakewalk to do.
The entire front plastic cover pops off, exposing the air filter.
The air filters are 1. Metal-like material, 2. Magnetic. This means that removing them to clean them is amazingly easy.
The four fans you see featured are preinstalled, and large in size (120mm). This means you don't have to buy any fans to go with it (I made that mistake, but at least I have extras now)
The right side of the tower is designed incredibly well - here you will find the slot for your power supply, the 3 thin slots for your solid state drives, and the 2 pullout trays for your hard disc drives.
On the bottom of the unit, there is a fan cutout for your power supply, and a rubber guard separating the PSU housing from where the motherboard will be, making wire management easy as any excess wires can simply be stored underneath in the PSU cubby.
Speaking of fans, they are so silent you can't hear them. No I'm serious, the fans make zero noise. The only noise you hear is air moving, but the fans themselves just seem like they aren't there at all. It also helps that the tempered glass covers have rubber seals where you screw them in, meaning it also blocks out a lot of the internal noise.
The three fans in front pull air in from the sides, and the rear fan at the top of the back blows it out - it's a very well designed air flow system. The air flows in and is guided up and to the top allowing the cooler air to remain in the tower longer to soak up the heat before being funneled to the back top, meaning the air flows where it needs to and stays long enough to actually collect heat in the first place.
The top filter area of the tower is nice and long, 360mm to be exact - with the various mounting locations you can put screws in (it also comes with screws for every hole you see) it's easy to mount a water cooling loop, or more fans. The top also has premade holes, so mounting fans or a radiator + fans for your water cooling loop is incredibly easy.
The kit comes with spare screws, for us less agile folk - losing a scew or two isn't nearly as bad.
In the back, there's a little slide you can lift up - unscrew the screens and put in your graphics card. Then, you can slide it back down - it covers the bright metal piece that you screw in and makes it look much nicer and cleaner.
That's all I can think of to cover the great functionality of the product, let's move on to notes of interest.
Make sure your power supply has SATA connectors for future projects.
The power, reset, and button lights respectfully are already Velcro'd and nicely together so you don't have to fool with organizing them.
I don't know if you'll have this issue, but if you build everything and power the PC but your fans aren't working - don't fret! There is a switch on top with the letters L S H or something similar (can't remember ATM) , I had to switch it to the right to get the fans + their lights to work. If you switch all the way to the left the fans will run but won't be lit up.
The 4 pre-installed fans aren't connected to anything - what you actually want to do is connect them to a little black board on the right side of the tower, these have 3 prongs in them to fit the fans on to, and the black board is what will connect to your motherboard - so the only motherboard fan slot you use is the CPU one, the others aren't needed - if you have a three pin connector. This is actually what makes the fans run so keep in mind the motherboard won't recognize them (with the exception of the CPU fan, if you are not water cooling.)
Well, that's all I can think of to mention. Overall this is a fantastic product, and with its fantastic price tag (I got mine for just 70 - 80 USD) it really can't be bested. This case I'd absolutely recommend to anyone, and will be using it in all future builds.
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
|---|---|
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 1 |
