Joined on 02/24/03
Great Airflow, nice aRGB fans.
Pros: - Solid airflow - Supports up to 6 fans - Includes 3 aRGB 3 pin fans - Amazing cable management
Cons: Can be a little confusing wiring up the fans the first time
Overall Review: It's a great looking case with awesome airflow. I bought 3 Deepcool CF120 fans to fill the extra spots and they sync up with the included fans perfectly. I decided to bypass the included aRGB hub and connect them to my motherboard, which took a few minutes to figure out how to do, but it is manageable. Cable management is great in this case, and I was able to attach 2 fan hubs in the back with no problem as there's about an inch of space to work with behind the mobo plate. I'd buy this case again in a heartbeat. For anyone wondering about the included fans, they are currently not for sale on any website, but if you email Phanteks they will sell them to you directly.
Another win for MSI
Pros: * NO PCIE LANE SPLITTING* Wifi 7 BT 5.4 Easy BIOS
Cons: Not a huge deal, but I miss printed manuals with my components.
Overall Review: This board is solid, I was impressed by the heft of it. Being able to use two gen 5 M2 drives and not killing your GPU sets this one even further above its competitors. Fired right up with my Zen 5 CPU and took two seconds to get my RAM running where it should be. You can never go wrong with MSI MOBOs.
Solid PSU from MSI
Pros: Great PSU with a 16pin PCIE 5 cable for your next gen cards. Has enough cables to run everything you'd need. 10 year warranty speaks for itself.
Overall Review: This is my first MSI PSU, but I've used their motherboards and other products for over twenty years now, always reliable and solid performance.
Noctua quality
Overall Review: My Ryzen 3600 (OC to 4.2Ghz) idles at 28c and under load the highest I've seen is 60c with this paste and a Deepcool Gammaxx GTE. 3.5g of top shelf thermal paste at this price is a no-brainer. I'll be using this paste for every build I do from now on. Noctua knows what they're doing when it comes to cooling.
Gskill Quality with some bling
Pros: - Awesome tight timings - Didn't have to do anything, ran at 3200 right out of the box - Pretty RGB action - B-Die!
Cons: None
Overall Review: This is probably the best 3200 RGB RAM in this price range. Being B-die, it overclocks well. I've been using Gskill RAM since Gskill started making RAM (almost 20 years) and have never been disappointed, still have an 10 year old system running 4 Gskill DDR2 sticks and it keeps chugging. I expect that this ram will prove to be just as reliable as the years go by.
Nice affordable cooler
Pros: - Nice tall heatsink - Copper heatpipes make direct contact with CPU - It's Deepcool
Cons: - The included fan is not aRGB
Overall Review: Great cooler, keeps my OC'd Ryzen 5 3600 running a lot cooler than I thought it would. I ended buying a Deepcool CF120 fan and using that instead of the included fan so that it would sync with the rest of my Deepcool fans, and it looks great! Install was simply, instructions were adequate.