Fractal Design Arc Mini Black High Performance PC Computer Case w/ USB 3.0 and 3 Fractal Design Silent Fans

Pros: Build quality is excellent and the details such as a PSU removable intake filter and spacious room behind the mobo tray to route cables are nice touches. The top fan provided is a 140mm and the top offers mounting holes for a 240 or 280 radiator. Hard drive cages can be rotated any direction. The front 120mm intake fan allows for the mounting of another 120mm fan. The fans are whisper quiet under full power and are sleeved. The all black interior with white accents on the HD trays and expansion slots are well done.

Cons: none

Overall Review: Even though the front bezel is plastic, the level of detail in making it appear as brushed aluminum is manufactured quite well. It would fool anyone just looking at it until the actually tapped on it.

This is a great, spacious micro-ATX case! Well worth your consideration.

Pros: Very understated and elegant, and not flashy at all. The included fans are nice and quiet as well.

This case is packed with some awesome features, especially for a microATX case, such as the bottom mounted PSU, removable HDD cage, cable management options and the number of fans that can be mounted. There was a lot of room to mount all the components into the case, and wiring was very easy due to the cable routing options. The adjustable fan slot is a nice option, especially because it occupies its own slot and doesn't take up one of the 4 mother board slots. Adjusting the fans can be a pain since the knob is all the way in the back of the case, but since I view it as an extra feature and not a necessity, I'm not deducting a star for that. The rear cutout for heatsink backplate mounting is also a nice bonus.

The case itself is very heavy and well built, and the sides don't bend and flop around when removed.

Cons: The reason I took two stars off is because pretty much all of the thumbscrew holes were poorly threaded, which meant I had to use a screwdriver just to open and close the case or install and components. The motherboard standoffs threaded in nicely, but all of the thumbscrews were a nightmare to install. Only one of the 9 thumbscrews I used actually turned well. All of the others had to be turned with a screwdriver. While the case is built well, these small details seem to have been overlooked, or I just got unlucky.

Also, I had troubles mounting the hard drive into the removable bays. I'm using an ADATA 128GB SSD with a 3.5" adapter, and it fit just fine with no problems into another case, but with this one, the adapter wouldn't line up with any of the holes on the removable bay. I didn't have a standard 3.5" drive on hand to test, but luckily Fractal have drilled standard SSD mounting holes into the bays as well so I was still able to mount my SSD in.

Overall Review: The MSI HD7950 TwinFrozr II was a very tight fit into this case with the top hard drive bay turned front to back instead of sticking sideways like the bottom bay.