Joined on 11/02/14
The long search for a case is over
Pros: If you're looking at cases with a list of must have features like mine; at least a couple HDDs and SSDs, room for top radiator to not sacrifice the front, glass side, good construction, roomy, stylish, grommets, some half decent RGB fans compatible with motherboard sync to use for at least a while out the gate until replaced by something better (and 140mm is supported as well) dust filters, and last but not least, actually existent 5.25 bays.. and well priced to boot, look no further. There may be no such thing as a perfect case, and aesthetics are entirely subjective, but i looked at a LOT of cases until deciding on this one, it hits every note.
Cons: the fans are not the best, but you are basically getting them for free, since a decent RGB fan runs at least $30 CAD. They use molex power and some strange 6-pin thing on the RGB/speed connection to the case controller, so no plugging them into the motherboard directly which i would prefer for my own fan curves. The installation manual is a 2 sided piece of paper poorly translated from chinese and parts seemingly copy/pasted from non-relevant cases. It does more harm than good. Some experience/intuition is definitely needed.
Overall Review: For everyone have trouble getting the RBG to sync.. throw the instructions away. It starts by saying locate the addressable RGB header, then says plug the aura connector into 12v RGB... what? 5v 3-pin addressable headers and 12v RGB headers are totally different and you shouldn't try plugging one into the other ( I learned all this while making this build) despite what the instructions or anything else says, this case has a 12 VOLT RGB (non addressable) connector and should be plugged into a 4-pin RGB header. Then hold down the LED button and it will sync to motherboard.
Nice when the LCD works?
Overall Review: - Installation. Came with no instructions, just a QR code on the box. The online instructions which I had to squint at my phone at, I could manage to get through hooking up the over-complicated icue ihub ilink or whatever, but the part about the USB-c going from the rad to a second USB hub (which controls the LCD) is omitted from the instructions for some reason. It uses PCI-e power instead of molex or SATA. My power supply had 2 cables both of which were going to the GPU. If I didn't have an extra from my old power supply (which was EVGA instead of seasonic but worked anyway) it would have been over until I could somehow get a surplus cable. - Performance. Not that great? If that was all you cared about, get a quality air cooler like a thermalright for $40 or so and call it good. This thing is for looks. I got the 120mm version for my 95W CPU because it was bundled with that same CPU in a newegg deal, probably because nobody buys them.. - Quality. Worked out of the box, but the screen intermittently has some vertical Hz issue where it starts scrolling rapidly. Usually letting it either run or the electronics discharge by powering off fixes it on it's own, but it's been getting worse. Today it seems stuck. I'm afraid I will have to try to return it, since the one thing it is supposed to do (look good) fails.. But I am already past the newegg return period. Wouldn't do it again, the quality just isn't there for the cost.