IN WIN 101 Midi-Tower Case

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Thinking about getting the 101 for my main PC build , No reviews on the Air Flow/Cooling inside of case , The length is 48cm /480mm ,
My Corsair 400c 42cm/425mm length & fits easy on my bench , 400c can take 170mm air coolers , the 101 160mm.

101 got the most easy side Pull out Window , A trade off
 
markoboyo11 said:
Interested to find out what you think as its defo my favourite case to get now and there are no reviews at all.
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Hardware All set up in the 101 White, Its great,

Airflow from the 2 x 120mm fans front side Great Using the Cougar 64CFM Fans , The 2x 120mm Fan Bracket got holes to thread the 3/4 pin through ,
Was going to place a 120mm fan bottom front ,
But i don't think i need to now ,the 2 x 120mm Doing a great job ,

Front Tampered Glass Panel First time around Was hard to pull the 2 pins Out to release panel, After that, they pull out easy, Best i saw for quick access to inside of case, Also the other Panel behind motherboard tray
Easy to remove with the 2 x thumb screws that stay in the panel when removed.

Using the 2 x 2.5" SSD/HDD Mounts on back of motherboard tray with 2 x 12" Round star tech sata Cables.

Very easy to Attach the I.O motherboard plate, Best i seen , you can even move it up or down a little
once attach.

Love the Power supply Caddy/Rack up top, Easy to hide cables, Did not use a Long 12v CPU 8pin cable, Where the PSU is located i used my short Silverstone cable from the short cable set,:)
What i like about the PSU rack being up top you can look up to see when the fan Spin, fan not
spinning at the moment due to it only kicks in under 640w load

The case looks Sexy & even more so in the flesh.
Will take a Photo later & link my 101 build here.
 
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The 2 x 2.5 Mounts Support the 4/5 TB 2.5" Fat HDD's


There's a Hole IN the motherboard tray i could have tread the Audio Cable, But its hard when the motherboard mounted, Airflow all ok, Feel the air blowing in.

Camera overdone the whites, Looks much better than this, Case as a Lovely Style to it Like
a Picture Frame, Tampered glass panel very Light.
 
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Mickcas said:
Looks good. I'm thinking (if I pick one up) of running 3 120mm along the bottom as intake then my 240 aio as exhaust.
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Yep that work great , bottom 3 x 120mm fans intake , 2 x 120mm fans on AIO on side as exhaust , 1 x 120mm fan rear exhaust , in near future i will do the same as you .

3 fan at bottom also give the GFX card a nice Blow , The inside be one Cool Case

My old case was Corsair 400c White , This case feels some much more Quality in design Picture Frame look with the Light Weight Tampered Glass panel quick rel .
No plastic PSU covers :)
 
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Mickcas said:
Well I'll also be coming from a 400c so great to hear your feedback.
Think I'll be running 3 thermaltake riings with red led along the bottom and one at the back so will go for the black case as this laptop has the red led on the front. Then the GPU motherboard and kraken can all be set to red to keep the theme going. Should look nice. Have you saw any thermal improvements on the GPU?
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Lol Just About to say ..I'M thinking about getting the Kraken X52 AIO Water Cooling Unit - 240mm
 
Ya some of them RGB fans sets cost more than the case .
Thermal take RGB 256 Color £21 each ..OUCH
Looked around best i seen is 3 x Thermaltake RGB Fans £38.99
 
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Not Going to add a Dust Filter to side , With my Corsair 400c Fine dust particles covered all over Inside ,Thats with magnetic Dust Filters ,
With the 101 having 2 fans on side Will be much better.
 
Mickcas said:
Just wondering how your getting on with the 101. I'm currently torn between this the new glass define ç and meshify c. Any words of advice now you've had the 101 for a little bit
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Doing Great, Due to having 2 fan on front side instead is great ...No dust particles flying all over the hardware or on floor,
no more taking front panel off is another big plus, only one thing i noticed,
PSU, My Silverstone plat 750w got short PCI-E cables so at to go along to back top of the graphics card to connect them, it was not long enough to go under the gfx card,
due to the way the PSU is further away at top of the case. as seen in my picture up some posts.

This may only apply to some PSU's & Placing a Mini ITX card, in this case, would make some PCI-e cables not reach & Only way would be to Take the PCI-e Cable from the top hole of PSU enclosure & a crossed the motherboard
 
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Yep Extra Bonus with a Type C port on top , Wonder how much more that push the price up , All the other cases you said about.
Meshify C ..so forth I would not be interested in due to the fact they all the same as my older cases Enthoo Pro M Window Edition & Corsair 400c Cases in design
with PSU enclosure at the bottom
front panel to take off
thumb screws to take Glass panel off

With 101 Its Diff with only thin tempered glass light panel & 2 sec pull up & out & thin border
around the side like a picture frame & no front panel to take off & no dust when using the front side 2 x 120mm fan mount.

Bottom of the 101 case where you can place 3 x 120mm fans or rad,
The gap from under the case dust filter to ground is 2cm from air intake,
Would think air be ok but the long dust filter would gather dust Easy,
But its also good to know the filter is easy to remove & from the side instead of the back of the case.
 
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IN WIN 101 Is smaller by the way ..just checked with tape

Meshify C
Case dimensions (LxWxH)
395 x 212 x 440mm
Case dimensions - with feet/protrusions/screws
409 x 217 x 453mm

IN-WIN 101 (LxWxH)
370 X 210 X 445mm

I am After the IN-WIN A1 Cube Case ITX for my spare itx intel z170 mobo , still some time i think before rel
 
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Having the PSU fan face down in case at top is Fine , My Silverstone 750w Plus Platinum Modular Power Supply ,
still works same from having it on bottom in the corsair 400c to Now this case at top , this psu Fan only spins when in a heavy load game .
i like it at top as i can see when the fan spins :)

note: being at top of the case you get no dust, not like at bottom where the dust builds up fast
on the PSU filter.

Note 2: Having the 2 x 120mm fans at front side, I noticed no dust at all over the hardware &
none of the fans on the floor of the case , So that's another bonus not having fans the old way in front & no having to take the stiff front panel off like I did on the 400c.

The 101 a little longer than say the "Meshify C" due to having the fans on side, but well worth it.

also to note the 101 got the latest lite 3mm tempered glass side panel that pulls out & up in 2 secs.
all other brands i see with tempered glass are heavy 4mm/5mm side panels.

The 101 GPU Bracket i not used so i cant say about that, but i am sure in-win would have tested it out
to make sure it doesn't touch the GPU fan under underneath.

Big price diff from the 101 £62.99 & Meshify C £89.99


 
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