I did a build for my nephew using this last week.
Its a great case to work in and the cable management options are superb. It looks great and the build quality is about on a par with everything in this price bracket. It also fitted a 9800GTX with space to spare.
On the minus side of things, I had to remove the top 140mm fan to fit an Akasa 966 cooler. The front 140mm is really quite noisy so I had to slow it down (in mobo bios) and the side panel is a bendy but thats not really a issue.
There are various reviews on the web stating that this case is bad from a cooling perspective but I found the complete opposite.
The build consisted of an E6750 & Akasa 966 Blue Aurora cooler, MSI P35 Neo2 FR board, 4gb ram, 3 HDD's and a 8800GT.
I clocked the E6750 to 3.6ghz easy and temps were loading at around 54-55c. The 8800GT temps were loading at around 50c & HDD temps were well within operating spec.
As I see it, its basically competing with 2 other popular cases. The Antec 300 and the Coolermaster CM690, both of which I have built pc's with
Compared to the 300 there is no comparison far as I'm concerned. I'd pick the Akasa even if the 300 was free.
Its an awful cramped piece of tin the looks feels cheap all the way thorugh yet still cost nigh on 50 sheets..!! No thanks.
Compared to the CM690? Well the build quality is definately better on the CM690 and its slightly longer. There are also far more fan placement options but the cable management holes are in fiddly places and are'nt as big as the Akasa.
The standard CM690 doesn't have the black interior either which certainly would bother me but not others.
Personally which one would I choose, probably the CM690 but its a close call.
