Pros: looks absolutely stunning with a custom loop water cooling solution. my build is all white with rgb lighting. case is sufficiently sturdy. i was worried the feet attach with plastic sandwiched between two pieces of metal. it wobbles if you shake it but it is fine if it's just sitting there. there is plenty of space in the back for all your cables

Cons: there are no tie down points for your cables. there are only two places to put a harddrive. (i'm not going to acknowledge the three slots behind the radiator mount because you'd have to be mental to think putting something there is a good idea.) a confusing amount of mixed hardware. it's hard to tell what all the screws are for in the manual. motherboard standoffs are a different thread than every other case i've owned. there are screws with the wrong thread in the same bag as the motherboard screws. the quality of the metal is very low. it felt like i was going to strip out the holes in the case just by tightening things down.

Overall Review: plugging in the front panel audio port resulted in a "device connected, device disconnected" error loop for me. I'm going to try and contact thermaltake about a replacement headphone jack. power led is a little brighter than i'd like. thermaltake for their part, sent me a new front i/o panel that fixed the faulty headphone jack with almost zero hassle. I changed my review to four stars from two as that was the only problem that seriously affected the case's usability. my other issues are minor nuisances but anyone who's not a beginner should be able to figure it out without damaging anything. this chassis is definitely not for novices.

Pros: looks neat quiet

Cons: idle temps went up from 89f to 120f from stock cooler on amd fx4100. even tried re-seating with arctic silver. no-change.

Overall Review: the design of this that (looks cool) seems to be chocking all the heat on the top of the cpu. after running for a while I took it off. the fins were room temp but the base and the cpu were scalding hot. I dont know the temp threshold for these new fx cpu's but it hit 55c and I shut it down. my phenom IIx4 955 OC'd to 4Ghz with a corsair h60 water cooler doesnt even hit 50c till after eight hours of prime 95.(after it has heated up my entire room lol)

Pros: looks really premium colors are extremely vibrant xmp profiles loaded perfectly on asus z370 E-Gaming the lighting effects are really smooth *4 month edit* ram running flawlessly on my z370e gaming asus mobo currently overclocked to 4000mhz 17 23 40 timing at 1.38v temps stay in the low 30's

Cons: (the icue software for controlling the lighting still needs some work. you can select dimm order and orientation but it took multiple reboots for the order to hold. also when you sync multiple sticks together the lighting effects drift apart in their timing.) *4 month edit* the icue software has seen a few updates and now runs flawlessly. it's very powerful for making custom lighting effects

Overall Review: something else to note, the software keeps one core of my 8700k running at around 90% at all times. not sure why this is. i also use it for my k70 rgb keyboard, dark core mouse, and corsair lighting node. *4 month edit* this issue no longer persists

Pros: tpu rubber body enamel coated metal trim dust filters dust plugs for the front i/o it came with a little screwdriver, how quaint. horizontal motherboard orientation (no gpu sag) much smaller than the thermaltake core series (probably only 60% of the footprint) ssd tray is on a hinge that swivels out, 90mm fan can go behind it this is probably my new favorite micro atx case. If I was still interested in a matx build I would probably keep this for myself and buy another one for my client.

Cons: there was a very small ding in the painted metal area. the box was in good condition and the packaging was good so this must have happened in production. it's only noticeable if you get your face within a foot of it though so it'll probably be fine.

Overall Review: if the window didn't go down as far you wouldn't see any wires I moved the 140mm front fan to the top as an additional intake I replaced the front fan with a 200mm thermaltake fan, blue leds I added a 90mm fan behind the ssd cage as an additional exhaust if you put a 5.25" drive in the bay you can still have two 140mm fans in the top but one of them will just be blowing onto the top of your 5.25" drive.

Pros: very bright, I bought three to go inside a Corsair Graphite Series CC-9011059-WW. the lighting is perfect for such a large case. easy positioning, magnetic backing means you can put it on any ferrous metal surface. all necessary hardware included, molex pass through adapter in each package.

Cons: the light was a little more blue than I wanted. If you look directly at it it seems closer to UV. it's almost like those hid headlights on some vehicles that shift between blue/white reliant on your angle of approach.

Overall Review: i put three of these in series and at first they didn't light up at all. all i had to do was reverse the lead wire plug. maybe if the made it directional it would be easier. just keep that in mind if they don't light up instantly.

Pros: disgustingly powerful

Cons: feels cheap. I put an asus strix 1060 in a friends pc last week and it felt much more well-built. this feels kinda flimsy.

Overall Review: in a case with a GIGABYTE GA-Z97M-D3H mobo and corsair v8 gts the back plate on this card interferes with the cpu cooler. I'll admit, it's the largest air cooler I've ever seen, but beware.