(Before I review this case, and it's wonderful design, you can go to http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811235034, to see the case first hand, and get the full specs since I won't be explaining them that much. The pictures I got is terrible but I tried. And my review to it is also on there, my nickname is Zibal on there.)
First impression:
When I first unboxed the case, it came with hard foam, which is great to package stuff in but it breaks easily, I would rather have soft foam, because it can take a beating, plus it's malleable. But the first thing I really noticed about it, is the smoked window it has on the side, which is very nice looking if you have LED's or any kind of case lighting. It also has one 80mm fans on each side for exhausting the heat out from the HDD's.(Which you can actually see when you go to neweggs site, and look at it.)
Taking off the hood of the beast:
As you can first tell in the picture I posted they are a lot, I emphasize a lot big time for routing your cables, and cable management. It comes preloaded with 3 quiet fans, 2 LED, and 1 Non-LED, all three of them are 120mm fans plus you can put a 140m in the bottom (which has a filter for it and the power supply) near the power supply as a intake, and a extra 120m at the top. So you get 5 fans preloaded and 2 optional, and this thing has very good airflow for the low price it's sold at. There's a place in the back of the motherboard tray where you can put a 2.5 inch SSD or HDD, which is a great way to hide your SDD. I think this feature is very slick, and unique. It also has 7 PCI expansion slots. And two rubber grommets for water cooling. Plus 5 internal 3.5 inch hard drive bays, and it does come with rubber(anti-vibration) fasteners to fasten to the hard drive bays since they are tool-less.
Front bezel, and ports:
The Front bezel is made of mesh, and has foam under it to keep from getting dust from the air that it intakes from the front. It has 2 2.0 usb's and 2 3.0 usb's which you have to use a usb connecter to plug in the back of your motherboard's usb 3.0 ports to use them. Comes with a headphone, and microphone out. Also has 5 5.25 inch external bays, but one is converted to a 3.5 inch for a floppy drive( Haha, yea.. I know.), media card reader, fan switch, etc.
Last thoughts: This case, is actually a very solid buy for the price range it's at, I don't think you could actually get a better quality case plus the features it has on board for less. Even though I think the usb 3.0 deal is kinda harsh to take in at first. But I would recommend this case to anyone that has a budget, and is looking for a very nice case to start with. This is actually my first custom computer, and I'm liking it so far.
Thanks for reading, and keep in mind, that this is my first review so it's not going to be perfect. But at least I tried at first.
