Joined on 01/26/14
get what you pay for and a little more
Pros: Cheap! awesome rubber keys for gamers. Orange rubber keys The hotkey buttons may seem gimmicky, but they work. And they work well. I love the calculator key so much. Everything seemed to work off the bat. ni CD required for the buttons to work. This was great as I am running on a bitFenix Prodigy case so to use the top 2 120MM fans I require nothing in the front bay. meaning no disk drive. Also, if you do not like the rubber keys because they feel awkward to typewith then you are in luck as it came with a simple key removal tool AND a spare set of regular WASD and Up/Down/LEFT/Right keys. the enter key is the large kind. I don't mind it, but I prefer the regular sized one. That's just me though.
Cons: Made cheaply. The backspace key is the small kind(unless you like the small ones) I personally despise that backspace more than I thought I would. but I suppose I just have to get used to it. The finish is easily scratchabl;e. i mean stupidly so. I rubed off a smudge to find scratches in its place. Oh well. Again, at the price I got this for at the time, I can't really complain for what this thing has. The bottom emblem feels out of place. My hand usually covers it but I'm still like "what is this doing here"?
Overall Review: I think they need to choose a different plastic for the finish. The overall construction quality very low, but again I got what I paid for big time and then some for the neat little features. This also helped with my budget experiment. Thank you rosewill! I think I might end up going with a budget mouse from them as well just to keep the experiment going on a super budget mini gaming build.
So good but lacks a few things.
Pros: Massive height, Beautiful windows (large as well) 2 PSU mounts so many spots for HDDs Lots of fans you can put 2 more 120mm fans in front of your HDDs for better cooling of the HDDs and for your GPU.
Cons: Only 3 3.5 bays for your accessories. the NZXT phantom has 5 and is a much smaller case. getting to your front fans is tough. The tooless design on the front bays is nice, BUT it doesn't have the holes required on the other side to keep your front bay items firm and stuck in place.
Overall Review: I really like this case. I mean I really like it and don't plan on changing it out anytime soon. (unless I get a caselab massive case for a redic price. But I am comparing this to my old NZXT phantom full tower. Granted the tower was smaller than this Antec, the Phantom had a lot of features that are much better than what this case has to offer. For one thing all my front bay items were kept in place. The antec lacks the holes to let me do that. From there it only has 3 front panel slots compared to my phantoms 5. After that getting the front panel itself off was a bit of a pain. the Phantom yet again is so much easier to work with for maintenance. pull off, dust, snap back on. easy. Also, the phantom came with a built in fan controller (A very VERY nice one) the antec does not. This means that you have to buy one if your motherboard or Power supply doesn't have enough plugs for the fans. For the price you can't really go wrong here, but dangit Antec. I know you wanted a monolith looking beast that was rather sleek and such, but you gimped me out on a few features and make now I feel like I should drill the holes needed for my front bay stuff. I will say this: It impressed me much more than the AZZA Genesis case. I used that case for a customer special build and the AZZA has more features but the HDD storage in the Antec is so much better. Also, for the size the Antec is way better in terms of many more things. But the AZZA has a boatload of slots for the front bay just like the Coolmaster Cosmos case. There are so many cases and with that a lot of hard choices to make. just compare this with the cases I mentioned and other related items and see what suits your fancy. I gave this case a 3 out of 5 for lack of features, no way to keep my front items solid and stiff, and front panel removal issue.
Absolutely Outstanding
Pros: -PVC Leather feels great and is comfortable against bare skin -Orange is bright and strong color meaning it will spice up the area or the chair. This leads to a nicer view of the room -Armrests adjust in multiple directions for a personalized sitting position and typing position -Great back, lumbar and neck support with included pillows which are also of equal quality with the rest of the chair -The legs are metal and not plastic so they are sturdy although a bit heavy. -The Cougar emblem is embroidered onto the headrest and the cougar branding is also embroidered on the included support pillows giving a real quality look and feel. -Very comfortable overall (I've fallen asleep in it with no issue, woke up feeling great because the shape and support of the chair) -The stitching is orange as well to match the accents, this gives it an even sportier feel -Diamond stitching gives the chair a more luxurious look to it and the PVC leather combo adds a texture to the diamond stitching that reminds me of something out of an Italian sports car. IT CAN DO THIS! (that pewdiepie chair meme)
Cons: -PVC leather so the polyurethane coat will crack and peel as time goes on, but hopefully with proper care I should not have this issue for a long time. -Armrests are made of a stiff material so your elbows may not like the area if you rest them on there while typing. -The Crevices on the side between the bolstering and the main sitting area is basically a black hole if something falls in. Expect crumbs, coins, small Lego pieces and possibly your soul to be lost to time eternal if it falls in there and you don't manage to scoop it out.
Overall Review: This chair is more of a medium sized chair so bigger and heftier guys may want to look into some other options. I'm 5'6" and weigh 115lbs (Tiny I know), and I feel like this is a comfy size for me although someone a bit thicker than me will most likely be able to enjoy this chair just fine or even better than me. For the cost of the chair I want to say this was amazing, but this is my first chair of this caliber and I researched multiple chairs and decided to take a risk on this one. It just called out to me for some reason and I don't know why but i am happy I ended up with it. I would totally buy this again. Being so small I can't really gauge on the cushion like other people who talk about how they can feel the steel frame when they press against it too hard. The chair feels great to me and as stated above I've fallen asleep in it and woken up feeling just fine. I use this chair for gaming of course as well as an office chair where I do paperwork and training for my career. So I deal with papers that are several hundred pages thick of technical data and training material, so this chair is definitely a factor of comfort to keep me going when I am starting to get tired of work. I also use this as my chair when I build legos (I like a lot of legos) and I am happy I have it. Basically I spend a lot of time in this chair, either in front of a screen, a pile of legos, papers, or even computer parts for custom builds I do. If you are the same or similar, I 100% recommend this chair or at least a chair of this caliber within the whole "gaming chair" setup. My car has Recaro Bucket seats in it (vehicle: 2014 Fiesta ST) so transferring from those to this chair is awesome and it makes my day just a little bit better knowing I am comfy and sitting pretty in this awesome chair. If you are still reading this...buy this chair.
exactly what you pay for
Pros: Protects wires/tubes/ropes/etc from friction and other elements such as being dragged around. 10 meters is a good amount to do a room worth of cables or an engine bay of some industrial equipment provided you keep it away from heat. I purchased this because I had a large amount of Ethernet cables strewn across my room for wired networking of many devices (consoles, 3+ computers, routers/modems, printers, etc) and I needed a way to hide and protect the cables as I didn't like the thought of wires just laying all over the floor. If you need a way to hide your cables without paying tons of money for name brand solutions (monster when they sold a similar product like this) then I would recommend this for larger amounts of coverage.
Cons: no cons I can think of
exactly what you pay for
Pros: They work. It's easy and simple to install. I bought these for a wireless card I salvaged from an old Sony Vaio laptop I had from 7 years ago. I mounted the card onto an Asrock Formula X99 motherboard and it had a slot on the motherboard for one of these.
Cons: They don't just snap nicely into place so I had to take the card out and push them into the two points on the card, but that's not too much of a con.
Overall Review: I bought two pairs of this by accident so I have spares if I need them for other internal wifi cards that I mount on any other desktops. The shipping took a minute because it seemed to go through europe at one point(?) despite the company apparently being in Kentucky which was 1 state away from me at the time of purchase.
HDMI splitter. exactly what I wanted
Pros: came with everything I needed to split my signal to 2 different monitors. setup is from my PC to one computer monitor and 1 Sony Bravia TV. I needed this splitter so I could mirror my main monitor to the TV. I now have 6 monitors hooked up to my PC and am able to frag while chatting an watching YouTube at the same time with monitors to spare which allows me to monitor my stream playback and computer telemetry. very pleased with this product.
Cons: longer active adaptor might be useful