SilverStone Temjin Series TJ08B-E Black Aluminum front panel, steel body MicroATX Mini Tower Computer Case

Pros: Attractive and simple design; excellent cooling; good cable management options; small footprint

Cons: Very thin and flimsy side panels; could use more clearance behind the MB tray; no windowed side panel option

Other Thoughts: I just put a MaximusV Gene, i7 3770k, 16 GB RAM, GTX 690, 2 SSDs, 2 HDDs. Everything is of course a tight fit, but the excellent diesgn of the case makes it all fit together like a puzzle. The cable management is great, with holes and anchors for ties all in the right places. The clearance behind the MB is a little to shallow and I had some trouble fitting everything in, but some creative cabling fixed that. My biggest gripe are the side panels. Aluminum is weaker than rolled steel, but these panels are so thin that they can very easily be bent.

Pros: Excellent case with relatively good cable management -- a lot of holes to run them through. Comes with plenty of screws for mounting virtually any number of components. Good options for air flow/vents. Easy access behind CPU if necessary.

Cons: The SSD mount is at the very bottom of the case. The case comes with 3 header prop things -- but if you use those for your mobo you'll be out of luck for the SSD. Your SSD power & data cables must come out completely flat otherwise they won't fit since the SSD mount is at the very bottom.

Other Thoughts: There are a lot of screws. Even something simple like removing the drive bay cover requires removing screws. There isn't a whole lot of room inside the case, it is a micro ATX. Recommend a modular power supply.

Pros: Sleek. Sexy. Small form. Amazingly light with all my gear inside. This is the best air-cooling I've ever experienced and using only three fans, the big 180 up front that it comes with, 120 on a Nactua 12p, and a 120 on rear of case. My temps at full load on a 3570k @4.6 is 45 on cpu and mobo 28 with room temps @ 80farenheit. Amazing rig for rendering on sony vegas pro 12, and also the 180 fan is on low voltage setting.

Cons: It takes a while to set up if you're not used to working in small cases. 5.25 hard drives are difficult to comfortably mount. But if you use smaller drives, no problem at all. The bigger drives push down slightly on my Dominator Platinum sticks. But even with two 5.25 and ssd loaded, you still get amazing temps. If you take the removable drive cage out, I guess it would go down a few degrees more.

Other Thoughts: In short, a lovely case. Once you give it the proper amount of attention setting up, it gives tons of pleasure.

Pros: Great layout, easy to work with, classy looking.

Cons: Slightly flimsier than I anticipated. HDD rack is rather annoying.

Other Thoughts: This will be my fourth build using this chassis. I haven't seen a better case for mATX yet. My only real gripe is that the HDD cage is a noisemaker when installed and could have been done differently/better rather easily with the space available in this case.

Pros: Stunning case, I would almost say classy.

Solid metal, sturdy. No frills, nothing seems out of place.

Placement of PSU makes for low internal temps, paired with a closed water loop my 660ti stays very cool at max load.

Small form factor was my ultimate goal, I barely sacrificed anything from my case that was at least twice as big. Temps are still great and I can fit 2 HDDs and my SSD boot drive with ease.

Cons: Cable management, but what exactly do you expect?

Other Thoughts: Setup this case with a 660ti, i5 2500k, antec 620 kuhler, with the processor at 4.5GHz running prime + furmark with the front fan on high I am barely breaking 70 degrees CPU and 72 degrees GPU.

Pros: This a great case for a small build. Despite it's small overall size, there is plenty of space for multiple drives and a fairly large CPU cooler.

Cons: None

Pros: There is no sharp edges in this case, I even tried to cut myself, I couldn't! For being so small, there seems to be ample room. Everything went so good, I swapped everything out from one case to this one really quickly. I usually buy Antec or Lian Li cases and this one is just as good as quality, better in my experience, than those.

Cons: One of the front USB ports don't work. :(

Other Thoughts: I just love how small the case is with having ample room inside.

Pros: A 3.5'' HDD and a 2.5'' SSD fits in that tiny slot in the bottom of the case
The case is pretty light.
Everything fits snugly, there's holes for routing cables.
My ATX sized PSU fits (though I didn't use any external 5'' slots).
The design is extremely minimalist which I like, there's USB 3.0 ports in the front. Everything seems to be high quality including the filter for the fan in the front and top both of which are ridiculously easy to remove and clean.
There's a super awesome fan controller above the front fan filter that seems to half/double the fan RPM. On the default setting the front fan is ridiculously silent buuuuuuuuuuut read other thoughts. Like I said everything is solid except for one thingy mentioned in cons. The motherboard tray is detachable which allows for easy installation of stand offs (which are pre-installed) and for CPU coolers and the tray is fastened by three s crews and a slide/lock mechanism (like side panels for a case). Everything is tidy and neat, including cable management. There's an area behind the PSU case that allows for hidden cable storage. The case can fit 1 HDD and 1 SSD without the HDD cage. There's nice secure foot rubber thing son the bottom/top of the case which reduces vibrations from the PSU and prevents case from slipping.

Cons: I've only found 180mm case fans sold by Silverstone... which doesn't leave many options to purchase from.

The front/lower panel covers that cover the external slots, are fastened by two s crews so the panels never look "natural" on the front since they are easily moved, not sure if this makes sense but this is an extremely minor gripe. The bracket that holds the PSU/external 5'' drives are slllliiiiigggghhhhttttllllyyyyy wobbly when pressure is applied. The tiny space that holds 1 HDD and/or 1 SSD mounts the HDD's ports facing towards the back panel which is fine for me, but the SSD's ports face the side panels which makes cable management slightly more tricky.

Other Thoughts: I think the front case fan operates at 800RPM on default, and 1300RPM on highest speed; relatively silent on default and tornado sounding on highest setting (there's only two settings default and high).
The top panel is removable, not sure how I feel about this but it certainly allowed me to install the PSU easily considering the fact that this is a mATX case. A modular PSU is definitely needed for this build, otherwise it may make some things difficult
Kinda Conish but in this case almost everything needs to be s crewed/uns crewed and s crewed in again excluding the side panels which have thumb s crews.

Keep track of what s crews are used for what part since I slightly stripped my top panel s crew holes using the wrong s crews.
Other than the SSD mounting, and the 180 front panel fan I would probably rate it the highest possible.
I suggest you buy this case if you're experienced builder.


i3 2120
AsRock b75 Pro3-M
Radeon 5770
G.Skill 2x4GB DDR3 1600mhz
SeaSonic 520W modular 80+ PSU
1 Seagate 500GB HDD
1 OCZ Agility 3 60GB SSD

I'm typing this as I go so forgive my poor grammar.

Pros: Excellent build quality, great finish. Very solid. Good price, purchased several to use for a client's workstation.

HDD bay is effective and well thought out for cooling and ease of removal / install

Motherboard trey is completely removable - plenty of space on the back side of the motherboard trey to route the 24 pin power connector extra cable and other cables which needed to be hidden.

Cons: None really

Other Thoughts: I would advise you to get a Zalman ZM-F3 120mm fan for the back fan position of this case. The reason being the Zalman fan has an inline resister to drop the fan speed down to ~900rpm making it very quiet.

If your board has the ability to adjust fan speed then you will not need to use the Zalman fan.

The installed Silverston 140mm front fan is very quiet and moves a lot of air. Both the installed Silverstone fan and Zalman fan are very effective and quiet.

Pros: The case is very well designed and built. It looks small but I still was able to install the enormous Thermalright Macho CPU cooler (with a smaller fan).

Cons: The case fan could be less noisy. The fan noise may be not very important for most people but it was for me, so I had to replace it with 180 mm Phobya Silent fan.

Other Thoughts: SilverStone should have made the case an inch or so longer. This would greatly simplify the choice of PSU and HDD cable management.
If you want to use this case then you should carefully read the TJ08-E manual (http://www.silverstonetek.com/downloads/Manual/case/Multi-TJ08-E-Manual.pdf) before selecting components for your build.