Joined on 01/15/05
Pros: Good, solid budget case. Easy to set up. Easy to reach. Good instructions. Screwless design works excellently. The two 120mm fans do their job perfectly. If I ever build another computer, I'll be sure to use this case, or others in its family. Best bang for your buck.
Cons: None yet, but the internal 'Parts Box' is placed directly in front of the intake fan. Not sure if it really does anything to the airflow, as I never get hotter than 36-39C running Crysis, WiC, CoH, or DoW2.
Overall Review: Intel Core2 Quad Q8300 2.50GHz ASUS P5Q PRO Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512mb 4GB Kingston DDR2 800 Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM HDD Vista Home Premium 64-bit Rosewill RP550V2 550W PSU Rosewill R5605-BK Mid Tower Solid build for less than $800. Runs Crysis on High (no AA) @ 1680x1050 at 20-40fps Runs DoW2 on High (w/ AA) @ 1680x1050 at 30-50fps Internal temps never gets hotter than 36-39C.
Worked great for about 4 months, sudden hard drive problems
Pros: - Great performance while it lasted. - Quiet enough not to be obtrusive (although I usually wear headphones). - Alleged upgradeability and component-swapping without voiding warranty.
Cons: - 1TB Hybrid drive intermittently disappearing from File Explorer for no apparent reason, can't RMA the drive itself. - Customer support basically amounts to telling me to run a Windows Error Check or go without a laptop for about 3 weeks (and hoping they can actually reproduce the problem and don't just return it to me without doing anything).
Overall Review: - Would not purchase this or any other ASUS product again with technical and customer support that amounts to rolling the dice.