Xigmatek ASGARD 381 CCC-AD38BT-U03 Black Steel / Plastic / Metal Mesh ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Pros: -good price
-black
-toolless

Cons: -power LED light is super bright
-Couldn't fit Hyper 212+ in - it stuck out by 2mm or so, so I had to force the side of the case to close and it pushes down on the heatsink

Pros: I have no problems with this case. Everything in the box was secured tightly. It came with a few screws and zip tides. I used an mATX motherboard and it fits perfectly. the case does support mild water cooling. There's some features included in the back. You can remove some small panels for tubing, external cables ect. The interior looks very stealth. And you can manipulate the airflow very well if you use a small mobo.

Cons: If you want to do water cooling, if you get any Corsair hydro series the h100 will not really fit on the top. the h50 and 70 do perfectly on the back. And get long cables or a modulator power supply. My cables were really short and couldn't really tuck the cables.

Other Thoughts: This is an amazing case. When i got mine the fan was not included. OH another thing. Orange looks best with this case IMO

Pros: I love the case. Too bad it comes with no fans. Had to make a trip down the mountain to Flies to purchase a set of 120mm Cooler Master fans. It came with a teeny tiny socket for the motherboard standoffs.

Cons: USB3.0 ports are flaky

Other Thoughts: I have emailed the manufacturer for help on replacing the USB 3.0 ports. If the case had come with a fan as described in the included documentation I would give this four eggs. 5 if the USB 3.0 ports were not flaky.

Pros: Pretty lightweight and the design of where everything is on the side makes it easy to have good cable management. Also love that the powersupply is on the bottom rather than the top.

Cons: There is like less than 1mm of space between my heatsink and the side of the panel which I dont think is a huge problem its also an after market heatsink but that is the only downside that I can tell so far.

Pros: Toolless drives, great cable management space, tons of fan mounts, great price. Looks great too.

Came with a tool for turning the standoffs in easier. Not that I've ever had issues with getting those in, but it was a neat addition.

Cons: none what-so-ever

Other Thoughts: Bought 6 of these for a project at work and every one of them has been great. I've bought a few cheap cases from Gigabyte and they were terrible. The motherboard tray was so thin that the standoffs just spun in place. Not the case with the Xigmateks. These things are solid cases, especially for the money. Currently running with 4x120mm Kingwin fans on full and the thing is still dead silent.

These cases are so great I'm considering buying one for a personal build instead of some of the (much) more expensive cases out there.

If you're in the market for a cheap case this is a great choice.

Pros: It has tooless drive bays!! It is pretty easy to install all your components.

Cons: The motherboard screws look like the rest of screws!!(all pretty small)

Pros: Just by looking at it I knew it was going to be a good case. Tons of mesh cutout areas for big fans.
This also has back-panel access to your mobo which is very nice.
The hard drives are mounted by the orange 'x' pieces. The x's are clips that snap to your hard drives. Takes about 2 seconds, no screws.

Cons: None.

Pros: GREAT cable management--both sides come off and there's room inside for a zillion fans including two on a "somewhat" filtered front-of-drives side. Nice looking, well designed and in terms of construction, well done.

Cons: After spending two days gently installing the mobo, ram, PS, six devices, cooling, cpu and a half dozen fans, the big "ON" button broke and after being pushed down, stayed down and may have fried stuff inside after i hit the restart button to see if it would at least just stay on, and didn't, just shut itself off and threw the Power Supply into circuit breaker mode (!). Yipes.
But here's the TRULY lame part: this 34 dollar case, though covered under warranty, will cost me almost that much to return to NewEgg even if went USPS. So for all that trouble i am paying about 2x a restocking fee to simply return it and even then there's no guarantee they'll be okay with it if some gorilla decides to trample it on the way there. So now i have to REMOVE all the stuff from it, rebox and cross my fingers that i got all the stuff it came with in there (the zip ties and screws were from these guys or the Mobo? oh man!)

There you have it. Nice case if the power module they installed in China wasn't totally cheap and i didn't have to pay the shipping for the RMA...

Note to Self: The "largest online reseller" (hint: rhymes with glamozon) provides instant-RMA like NewEgg--but they pay for RMA return shipping via UPS. NewEgg might consider doing so -- even if it means raising your prices a tiny bit overall. you wouldn't lose any customers and keep the ones you have...

Pros: So many slots for fans, It's amazing! plus another perk it has available slots for 120&140mm fans, Very sleek design, Lots of air flow.

Cons: None

Other Thoughts: AMAZING!!!!!

Pros: +Great cable management, holes and zip-tie mounts everywhere
+Good looks, my wife and I agree it is a nice looking case
+Lots of room for HDD's
+Place for 2.5" SSD
+Cooling, lots of places to mount fans
+Solid, doesn't feel flimsy
+USB 3.0 front panel
+Front I/O panel placement on top instead of out front

Cons: -Fans, there are none included, not a single one
-Rubber grommets for liquid cooling, also none but this is common among sub $100 cases, though there are metal push-outs that are intended for liquid cooling solutions
-Plastic bezel, all metal is better in my opinion

Other Thoughts: I am impressed with this case, overall it is an excellent buy for the price, I've seen several highly rated cases that cost $10-30 more than this case that weren't as good, some not even close. I knocked off one egg because I'm quite critical. There is not a single fan in the case and because the water cooling tube holes have no rubber grommets to protect from chafing the hoses.

While not having a single fan is not great, the quality of stock case fans at this price are usually.. not great.. so in truth I don't even care cause I would have just replaced it with a better fan anyway.

While I gave this a 4/5 egg review, I would suggest it over "IN WIN MANA137" which is $10-15 more expensive and has an average of 5/5 and the Antec Three Hundred which is also rated 5/5 with over 1600 reviewers and nearly $30 more expensive. I could go on but I'd rather not.

The placement of the front I/O panel is at the front sticking up instead of out which is a superior placement because it is less likely to get in the way of your CD tray and less likely to clipped by someone walking past (either ruining your case or your equipment plugged into the case).

While I prefer all metal cases to ones with a plastic bezel, most cases that are less than $200 have plastic bezels, cost to benefit ratio says that this plastic bezel is acceptable.

I took a chance on this case and I don't regret it. Just make sure when you buy this case that you'll need an extension for your (4 or 8 pin) motherboard power adapter to make use of the great cable management (this is true with all cases that have good cable management so it is not a con for the case but the power supply manufacturers) otherwise your power cable will be draped over your video card, also make sure you have lots of zip-ties and some high quality low noise fans to cool the system.