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Looks nice, very light thin steel, with a few issues worth mentioning. Positives: Small desktop footprint Drive mounts removeable helped with PSU install. Thanks Magnetic filter up top, pretty useless unless pulling from the top but a nice addition nonetheless Nice long USB HDaudio PWR LED RST leads, what a refreshing change. Case issues: 1) Fan mounts on PSU shroud have not been tapped correctly so need to be drilled & deburred for fans to be mounted, also not easy to get screws into the fans as there is limited space you need a child to mount them, had cuts on my hands from doing this one mod alone, several rivets are not black. 2) Airflow: 100% Dreadful! Case not suited to an Overclocked system. Eventually the heat will create a 'hot-box' as the fans on the 240mm radiator (front-mounted) do not draw enough airflow from the front to cool the rad effectively thus creating a hot-box, even using low profile fans on push does little to help cool the rad. The glass side feels hot to the touch & the 3 exhaust fans are moving all the stagnant hot air, but the front fans on the radiator can not draw enough cold in to reduce temps on the rad and incase, therefore the case remains a hot-box, so hot that you have to remove the side glass panel to help with cooling 'this is a fail' to me. As doing anything heavy CPU related the radiator heat just stagnates. 3) Can't mount 240mm radiator to the top of the case, specifications say you can, but my Game Max Iceberg 240mm cooling solution doesn't fit as there is not enough room, there are RAM clearance issues that impact the fitting of the cooler to the top of the case. This is always my preferred position for radiators & no doubt would have helped with the brutal cooling issues the case caused. 4) Cable management isn't too bad, but could have been a lot better. 5) The reset button is so tiny as to be most annoying, you need a pen/pin etc to press the button down Urgh. Q: would I recommend this case? A: 'YES' if you are not overclocking/wanting to mount fans on the PSU shroud or using a water cooling solution & trying to mount it to the top of the case. For me this case has took a lot of modding effort to get it to look like this good albeit minus the side panel under heavy loads. The case just isn't suited to heavily OC'd systems. But am happy with my efforts. Rating overall for my needs it gets a 3/5 being generous.Read full review
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