Anyone else got one? Just picked one up from Maplins in closing down sale for £50, its a lot of case for the money with all the tempered glass and RGB, really nice. Thought it was worth a punt for that sort of money - I wanted a Fractal Design R6 but it's a lot of money to swallow.
only criticism is it's very cramped in the PSU mounting area due to the hard drive cages, I would just remove them (I think they're riveted in) but I need the 2 3.5" bays until i can get a big enough SSD, not much room behind board for cable management either but I have a lot of stuff back there and it all went in. Other than there not being much of a gap cable management is excellent with lots of grommets to tuck cables into and lots of cable tie points behind the motherboard.
Also the bottom PSU intake is filtered, the top exhaust is filtered but the front intake isn't which is a bit weird and not much room behind the glass panel to add filters either. Looks like they might actually have updated the case and removed the top filter and added an extra RGB fan according to their website (as well as updating the power buttons on the top) but I can't find that version for sale anywhere.
Much quieter than my old Antec 902 with the fans and hard drives even with the fans on high and I feel like the airflow is a ton better
Anyone who by any chance does have one, do you have any recommendations for a PSU as mine is a VERY tight squeeze in there, possibly something non-modular or modular and really shallow
Can even get a slim 360mm rad in the front and there's plenty of room left for a pump/rad combo, also room for a 120mm one in the back but no chance of fitting a rad+fans in the top unless you mount the fans on the outside which wouldn't look great
only criticism is it's very cramped in the PSU mounting area due to the hard drive cages, I would just remove them (I think they're riveted in) but I need the 2 3.5" bays until i can get a big enough SSD, not much room behind board for cable management either but I have a lot of stuff back there and it all went in. Other than there not being much of a gap cable management is excellent with lots of grommets to tuck cables into and lots of cable tie points behind the motherboard.
Also the bottom PSU intake is filtered, the top exhaust is filtered but the front intake isn't which is a bit weird and not much room behind the glass panel to add filters either. Looks like they might actually have updated the case and removed the top filter and added an extra RGB fan according to their website (as well as updating the power buttons on the top) but I can't find that version for sale anywhere.
Much quieter than my old Antec 902 with the fans and hard drives even with the fans on high and I feel like the airflow is a ton better
Anyone who by any chance does have one, do you have any recommendations for a PSU as mine is a VERY tight squeeze in there, possibly something non-modular or modular and really shallow
Can even get a slim 360mm rad in the front and there's plenty of room left for a pump/rad combo, also room for a 120mm one in the back but no chance of fitting a rad+fans in the top unless you mount the fans on the outside which wouldn't look great
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