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★★★★★
Elegant and Easy to build.
Wow this case is awesome. It is big, beautiful, lightweight, and has tons of room in it. I wanted a full tower to get better airflow for a dual graphics card setup. I just didn't want a case it would take a forklift to move. This case has both! I can pick it up, move it, and there's enough room left over that a family of hamsters could camp out for the weekend inside. This was my second build and the space and cable routing made things so much easier over my 1st mid-tower Rosewill Challenger. This was a fun and easy case to use. I really enjoyed it and I would whole-heatedly recommend this case to anyone. Check out the pictures I posted to see the room and difference between a full and mid tower case.
Pros:
Big with a lot of space.
Motherboard risers built in. I didn't have to install risers, that was a plus.
Great cable management. Room for miles of fan controller wires, temp probes, extra plugged in Sata cables for future expansion, etc. etc.
Panels close like car doors. Nice in the back because you can shut them on your cables not slide over them. Like a hinged door without the hinge.
2.5" bays mounted in "dead-space" on back panel. Quickly fits SSDs and Laptop HDDs.
Removable HDD cages. The cages and nice, sturdy, made of metal not plastic, and removable if you don't need them. I didn't and it lightened the case and made for much better airflow.
It is a nice clean case. I am a grown-up (subjectively) and I didn't want a full tower that looked like it belonged in a Transformers movie. This case is a looker. My wife, who is not a tech person, looked at the PC when it was built and said, wow... that is beautiful, it can sit on a desk like a piece of art. That says a lot coming from her.
The case is light. I wanted a full tower but I don't have a forklift handy at the house. This case not only looks great but it only weighs 21 lbs. as well. It was only about 9 lbs. heavier than my mid-tower. Most full towers were multiples of that. Unless I wanted to spend at least twice as much (which I didn't) for aluminum which would have been ideal weight wise. For the money, this is the lightest, nicest case that I could find.
Cons:
Only minor thing I have so far is this:
The Reset Switch.
The button is inset so you don't "accidentally" bump it and reset your PC. What? I have never once, ever come close, to non-purposefully resetting my PC. I can't press the button without having to grab a pen or something and stick it in to push the button. It isn't a big deal, but that button placement was really ill-conceived.
Overall, I love the case and I loved building this PC, and I will never buy a mid-size case again.
October 2013 · Electronics