Pros: Great attention to detail. Thumbscrews everywhere, a plastic container for extra screws, rubber mounting system for drives, and there's a matching bezel available to cover optical drive bays. This is beyond great fit and finish. Airflow is excellent, noise is low (but not completely absent), cable management is good and the case looks nice. I really like the rotated motherboard design, since I'll never have an obsolete front IO panel. And I think it looks cool. There really is something to having a unique chassis. Did I mention I'm not going to be stuck with obsolete front ports, but do get to have good ol' firewire there? Or thunderbolt in a couple years? I love it. This is really a professional case, capable of handling and cooling SSI EEB motherboards. Numerous review sites have mentioned that the real dual 140mm fans would be great for water cooling, but that's not my expertise. I do know it's very spacious inside thanks to the hard drive mounting system.

Cons: Price. I managed to snag it during one of the low blips, and I probably wouldn't get it otherwise. The layout does not work and play well with "blower"-style centrifugal fan graphics cards, since the air goes out the front and gets sucked back in. But normal downfan cards are fine. The case has a graphics card support brace, which is actually very nice, since it takes the strain off the PCI slot. I have a small (8") card and the brace provides noticeable support... However the brace can impinge on large CPU coolers. I have a CM Hyper 212 Plus, which is a relatively narrow cooler with a 120mm fan, and the fan has to go on the "push" side because of the brace. I guess I could just leave it out and have it be like a normal chassis, but I think they could have redesigned it to give a few cm more clearance... There are no tie-downs for cables on the backside of the motherboard tray (I just let them dangle and it's fine) and the aluminum also tends to take fingerprints.

Overall Review: I really like this case, largely for aesthetic reasons. So many cases are either plain white/black/black with a silver front/ black with trim/whatever boxes, or freakish mesh monstrosities. Looking at one of the monstrosities get taken apart in a review, I realized the work done on the underlying metal to allow the mounting of the silly parts, the holes and connectors, was actually rather interesting to look at. I call this the "high tech" aesthetic. This is different from the cheesy "look ma, I'm a Cylon!" parody of high tech, but much more in line with the architectural movement. I find this case is a good example of this aesthetic applied. That is because of the rotated motherboard design combined with the aluminum grating. The effect is that the connectors, cables, etc are visible but veiled. So the experience of seeing the "tubes" is there, but there is still a nice sleek wrapper keeping the lines clean and the experience subdued.

Pros: Good airflow, quiet, sturdy

Cons: No cable management, awkward, overbuilt hard drive mounting system which uses nonstandard screws, strange appearance.

Overall Review: This is an old design, and it shows. The cable management is nonexistent, and makes the window more of a liability than a benefit, since you're left with a ball of snakes. Installing the hard drives is a real pain, since they're in 3-slot units which include the fan and grill, and they slide out the front of the chassis—except the fan wire and the cables for any already-installed drives keep the unit from sliding out. So that's incredibly awkward. Basically, there is no reason to buy this chassis. I think it just has the reviews it does because it's OLD. There are any number of modern cases that are cheaper, easier to work with, and have equally good airflow.

Pros: - full-featured board including 8 SATA ports, RGB, and on-board "WiFi 6" - decent price, especially on sale

Cons: - chipset fan emits a clearly audible high-pitched noise - chipset will run hot without fan on - plastic throughout is fragile. Multiple connectors broke during install. This hasn't happened for me on other boards.

Overall Review: Considering it's an "installable once" board and will likely force you to beef up your chassis cooling, I'd say to spend the extra coin for a board that won't break or make your ears bleed.

Pros: Seasonic is a top brand in power supplies. Even though this is an OEM unit with a 3 year warranty, I have no concerns about its quality.

Cons: LOUD. Loud is relative, but the fan they have in here is a cheap dual ball bearing 80mm that spins at at least 2000RPM. The noise is quite noticeable. That quite as in very, not quite as in quiet misspelled. If you want something quiet, the 120mm fan version might be better (my chassis is designed for the 80mm type, otherwise...) or something more expensive.

Overall Review: I ended up spending $15 on a Noctua fan to replace the included one. Altogether I probably could have just gotten a bigger, quieter PSU for the same price.

Pros: 2000MHz 9-9-9-24-1N 1.5V (i5 3570k & Z77 board) Cheap No tacky heat spreader Small

Cons: Packaging requires tearing or scissors to open

Overall Review: The way these fly under the radar is astonishing. I got the "customer choice" RAM (with 800+ reviews) for the exact same price and it wouldn't OC nearly as far... didn't hear about these until I was poking around on some OC website. And even THEY lament the fact that the 8GB pack is out of stock everywhere--just get 2 4's! Gosh... This RAM provides high-end performance at a commodity price. This is simply the best RAM out there--unless you want to pay through the nose, and even then, you'll probably need to run higher voltages.