XION XON-710P_WT White Steel Micro ATX / Mini ITX Slim Desktop Computer Case 300W Power Supply

Pros: Just got it. Opened it and up and checked it out. Its kind of hard to know what you are getting when shopping on a computer appossed to in a mall. All good surprises. Looks good. Looks well built. $40 for a case and power supply seems pretty cheep. Everything is installed except the two feet you put on that takes 10 seconds. I have not hooked up all the computer parts. I wont till after xmas so I have no feed back on function now. But from opening it up and checking it out it is a happy buy.

Cons: How do u get the rebate.

Other Thoughts: I built a mid tower case before this and had 4 gigs of ram and it waz pretty quick. Im setting this computer up with 8 gigs and a quad core pcu eventually. I hope Im impressed.

Pros: The case has a small footprint when viewed from the front and it is inexpensive.

Cons: You get what you pay for. For all intents there are no instructions, not that big of a deal. The ODD quick release is useless as it will not clear the PSU. The ODD bracket is warped (it can be straightened as it is flimsy metal. It does not hold the ODD square to the front of the case. Also, my case lacks the screw holes in the top of the ODD bracket to actually hold the ODD bracket in place.

The downside now is, what do I do with it? It is inexpensive and shipping it back to get a new one will make it as expensive as if I had purchased a better case to begin with.

Other Thoughts: You get what you par for. Purchasing this case is a role of the dice.

Pros: Killer little case for the price but make sure to read the dimensions before you buy. It is a heck of a lot bigger than I thought. Not a bad thing It is kinda neat. Using it for a HTPC.

Cons: The 24 pin connector from the power supply would NOT reach. I had to move it over about an inch and screw it in using one of the vent holes. Not to mention taking off the entire front end so I could reroute the cable going to the PSU.

Pros: This is an update to a review I made yesterday on power supply I Tried it one last time before sending it in and they would replace power supply only which is great, answered my email in one day. Anyway when I tried it again I found out it was the electrical cord had shorted out it was getting very hot. replaced it, working great now.

Cons: Electrical cord bad.

Pros: Slim; White Color option; Power supply is included. Support both mATX and Mini ITX motherboard. Case Fan is quiet. Low price.

Cons: PSU Fan is little loud like a standard desktop PC. Should be quieter.

Other Thoughts: Noise level is higher than expected. Like a running full-size desktop. But I'm OK so far. Hope the noise is not getting worse over time.

Pros: I liked the case.

Cons: power supply after three weeks went out. trying to have company to exchange it only, if not anyone want to buy it. LOL

Pros: Slim case, built-in 300W PSU. Build has a Biostar TA75M FM1 mobo, with an A6-3670K CPU. Running WCG (BOINC) on three cores and then one core+GPU, temps are 53C. Overclocking to 3.0Ghz, temps got to 58C. TjMax according to CoreTemp is 90C.

Cons: The mic/headphone jack cable comes in a non-standard pinout, which didn't match my mobo's audio header pinout. Rosewill cases come with a dual (AC97/HD Audio) connector. Why can't Xion figure out how to do the same? Minus one egg for that.

Other Thoughts: For forty bucks, how can you go wrong? Very stylish. Was a little tricky getting the DVD drive in, on top of the mobo/PSU cables. Had to use screws to attach it, the toolless adaptor hit the PSU when you install it and try to slide it in.

Pros: Small, attractive, efficient.
USB, card reader, headphone/mic door opens with stereo cabinet style press to open, Optical door opens via optical drive.
Short, space efficient PSU cords. Relatively easy to route cables all things considered. More than adequate screws, zip-ties and velcro cable-ties included. 1 SATA, 1 MOLEX on each of two cable sets yeilding two SATA, two MOLEX plugs.

Cons: Super minimal instruction pack. Optical drive Holder-inner-thingy interfered wth the PSU, so we ditched that in favor of more screws. It only held in one side of the drive anyway, so the quick-release-ness had no obviouse benefit. Inner brackets were warped or easily warpable thin sheet metal. Xion doesn't put slots in for screw holes on this case, they use thin enough metal that you can distort the shape of the brackets until the holes line up.
Hard Drive bracket holds the drive loosely: it won't fall out, but it can rattle around when the optical is spinning up. solved with a couple rubber bands wrapped around the bracket to fill the space.
USB and card reader cables are super long.

Other Thoughts: I helped a student of mine build a machine with this case, though it came with a keyboard and mouse, too for $20 more. The keyboard and mouse definitely look right with the case, but I think the deal is better w/o. On this setup, the "k" key was hyper sensitive, making passwords nearly impossible. I can't seem to find the combo product any longer, but if this review was on the combo, it would be 2 rather than 4 eggs.
The case however was pretty good I thought for the cost. The case fan up top is pretty quiet, it's powered by a molex plug at 12V. If needed it could be 7V or 5V to quiet it further, but I don't think it was the primary auditory offender. In such a small case, its hard to tell however.
The build was using an AMD A8-3870K with stock cooler, which we set to normal for the smart fan during setup and install. We put windows 7 on the machine, and it was getting pretty loud during install and early setup, but of course on install you are heavily using memory, CPU, HDD and optical, thus heavy PSU load could have been the culpriA. after 7 was installed and running, while doing the requisite updates, things quieted down a good bit. Silent, no, but the server/switch cabinet n the classroom was MUCH louder. My student will play with quiet and silent modes on the CPU fan through the BIOS.
As I mentioned, the cables for the USB and card reader are obsurdly long. Longer than I've seen in some ATX cases. The cables are broken up into bits, too, rather than being integrated into a single usb header plug. Each plug has a combined Vcc & two data plugs, then a separate ground, thus you need to connect two plugs to a single header (one outlet to the top, one to the bottom), then the card reader to another still. Not really a big deal, but makes the build take 10-ish minutes longer (might matter if you are in production) Same goes for the Audio header. Its broken down into 3 pairs of plugs and
an individual, leaving the +5V and gnd unoccupied on the MB header.
Still, Once built makes a nice package for a compact desktop. I'd recommend for an SFF budget build that isn't going to be continually re-configured. Though its not offensive or "loud" particularly, if you need silence get a box w/o PSUs and choose something with Silver, Gold or Platinum effiiciency. Otherwise a safe bet.