I got 900 gaming case and I am forever getting the dust out of it! The power supply is at the bottom which in my mind it a good thing since it can suck on cold air. However the mobo manufactures and PSU manufactures seem to make their products for top mounting applications. Ok so you can get extensions but just for 10cm more of wire you wouldn't need to.
The fans are not that quite if the PC is in a bedroom you would never be able to leave it over night whilst you sleep unless you are the type of person who could sleep whilst world war 3 is kicking off. Ok the big fan on top is a nice idea since it is a blow hole for all the hot air, but it also lets a lot of dust in when the pc is turned off. The top/front panel connection leads are also way too short with the USB just about reaching and the firewire lead a country mile from getting to the header. And if you have a sound card installed the headphone and mic leads are next to useless (Is it possible to connect these to the AUX header et al?).
The good things are its a very cool case with 4 variable fans with the option of adding 1 extra fan in the window mounting. The latest rev. will gobble the largest 8000 series nvidia card with a few cm to spare. The HD cages/caddies that can be removed are nice but again dust gets every where.
As much as all these different cases are nice lets face it after a few weeks of ownership you just think of it as a place the components are stored. As much as a nice looking case sat next to your stupidly wide screen monitor is nice, things like maintenance, ease of changing components, anti dust ingress are really what counts for easy ownership.
As always opinion is some ones point of view, be respectful if your opinions do not match my own.
Andrew
