Pros: • Roomy interior makes it easy to work in. • Generous cutout behind CPU mount for installing heatsink brackets, a must since larger heatsinks obstruct many of the motherboard mounting screws. If going this route, make sure to plug in ALL connectors before mounting the heatsink, because it will likely cover whichever one you forgot to connect beforehand. Trust me on this one. • Speaking of, fits 160mm high heatsinks. Swallowed a Noctua NH-D14 whole. You can't even see the mITX motherboard behind that monster. • Plenty of free-flowing air to keep things cool; more than enough air and space to support a 240 rad (maybe even two!). • Sleek, unobtrusive Scandinavian styling. • Faux brushed aluminum front panel finish resists fingerprints, unlike actual brushed or sandblasted aluminum. • Cables practically manage themselves. • Relatively compact size doesn't dominate when placed on top of a desk. • Easy to service dust filters on all intended air inlets means I've cleaned the interior once in 9 months and barely picked anything up.

Cons: It's all small stuff, folks. Even combined, not worth knocking off a single egg IMO. • All that interior space comes at a premium: it's not much smaller than a compact mATX case. It's 3.25" shorter and 0.25" narrower than the Define Mini C. But then, come on. You can make it compact and tight to work in and limit cooling options, or you can make it spacious and easy to work in and cool it any way you like. You can't have it both ways; you'd have to compromise something somewhere to get it smaller. • Could do with that extra 0.25" in width it lost to allow better top-mount radiator clearance with taller motherboards. • Could also do with an additional 0.25" between the PSU bay and the bottom expansion slot. Non-reference style GPUs will stay well within their thermal limits, but the fans obstructed by the ATX PSU have to work harder (and louder) to do it. • Step-up in the motherboard tray for additional cable routing space behind the tray can obstruct some SATA ports on boards with 90° SATA ports. Most motherboards configured this way have more SATA ports than the case has room for drives, so you could block half of them and still have enough ports left over. • No magnetic dust filter like the newer Define C series for the top modu-vent if you remove the cover. Granted, if removed this should be used for exhaust rather than intake, but it would allow dust to settle in the system while it is powered off. I wish Fractal Design would offer the filter to owners of older Define series cases as well. • Windowed panel not as quiet as the non-windowed version with sound dampening material (though this should be a given). • Acrylic windows are always prone to scuffing no matter what case they're in. LEAVE THE PROTECTIVE PLASTIC ON UNTIL THE BUILD IS COMPLETED. (This should also be a given.) Nitpick: For the black and white color scheme Fractal Design uses in its cases, I can't for the life of me figure out why they use blue LEDs for power/disk activity. White LEDs would better fit and be far more neutral if using case lighting in colors other than blue.

Overall Review: Whether you prefer water cooling or Big Air, this case keeps your chips frosty and your cables tidy with ease. Plastic front panel doesn't look or feel nearly as cheap as the phrase "plastic front panel" sounds. When I bought this, I didn't know about the Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX which, at the time, I probably would have purchased instead. While I would prefer the slightly more interesting – yet constrained – sci-fi styling and PSU shroud of the Enthoo Evolv, I later learned about its constrained airflow despite claims of being water-cooling capable. If you're sticking to air cooling, the Enthoo Evolv has enough airflow to keep things cool. For water cooling, the air restriction has a significant impact on radiator performance unless you completely remove the top and front panels, making the Define Nano S the far superior choice for water cooling. If it comes time to overhaul my rig with new components (and maybe water cooling), I'm going to disassemble the front IO panel and replace the power/disk LEDs with white/amber respectively. They're held in with a dab of hot glue, so it shouldn't be too hard to swap them out save wiring up the new ones.

Pros: -Improved styling -All-black interior -External 2.5" hot-swap bay (I actually like it)

Cons: -No cable management -Headphone/Mic jacks are NOT LABELED!! What's up with that…it's just plain stupid. -Sure the CD bay covers block CD drive slots, but I rarely use them to begin with, so meh.

Overall Review: Another reviewer mentioned that this was essentially a facelift of a 300 Illusion. This is NOT true. It is a facelift of the 600, which is much much closer in price to this.

Pros: •30-bit IPS LCD panel (1 billion colors allow you to see things in images you never noticed before, though in many cases the monitor's gamut far exceeds that of the source images) •Built-in calibration profiles are pretty much dead-on accurate for bringing the monitor's gamut into alignment with the destination's colorspace •Price compared to other 30-bit LCD monitors (which are not available from Newegg, though they don't have to be since people who know enough about them know where to find them)

Cons: •HP's claimed CRT-comparable black-levels are artificial. They produced by dimming the back-light, in much the same way that many manufacturers use to cheat with the Dynamic Contrast Ratios they advertise for their TN-panel monitors to achieve inflated numbers of over 30,000:1 when the true panel contrast itself is more like 700:1. HP doesn't make those claims for this monitor, thankfully, as it is true 1000:1. But in the end it is still the same sort of trickery. While the black levels and the visible definition in dark images is impeccable, it is not quite capable of the same dark-level definition in images with a very broad range of lighting. •Still very pricey if you aren't in a position to use it to it's full potential. I remember reading a review on Newegg a while back (I guess it was on an older version or something) from a doctor who used it for medical imaging. I suppose that the super-fine color accuracy would help in something like an MRI or when looking for strains ofcance

Overall Review: I should make it clear that I do NOT own this monitor. I was using it in the school's imaging lab, and was very impressed with it.

Pros: Terrific layout (except as noted in Cons below), great overclocking options/support, great features overall (DFI's signature numerical LED display comes in more handy than a case speaker when something goes wrong during bootup/POST), and as of now, the best price for a socket AM3 board with a 790FX northbridge.

Cons: Proximity of the DIMM slots to each other and to the CPU socket, a fear that the quality of the board might be suspect judging by some others' reviews.

Overall Review: Ignore the review by The Notorious G.I.B. He forgot to check one of the most important specs of this board—that it's a socket AM3 board ONLY, not a socket AM2+ board. So it's no small wonder that the Phenom II X4 940 he was trying to force in there (it's a socket AM2+ processor) would not even begin to mount. I'm surprised Newegg let him RMA the product the way he did considering it was his own error that his selected parts were incompatible. I suppose that's a testament to their terrific and forgiving customer service, which to be honest, I am very grateful for.

Pros: LED backlit S-IPS panel display. LED backlight eliminates warm-up time. S-IPS LCD panel is one of the best in the business, with unbelievable color range and accuracy (comes from the factory almost perfectly calibrated). Acts as a handy port replicator for your recent Apple laptop, basically turning it into a part-time desktop. Great overall design. Built-in speakers are surprisingly good, compared both to other integrated speakers and smaller stand-alone units. Apple's legendary quality and customer support. Did I mention the display looks gorgeous?

Cons: Fingerprints. Oh so many fingerprints. Ultra-glossy means annoying glare in many situations, but at max brightness it's hardly noticeable. Wasted features for non-notebook Macs (MagSafe power adaptor). Mini DisplayPort (let alone standard DisplayPort) not yet in wide use. Only one video input, though under most circumstances this is all that's needed. No vertical height adjustment, doesn't swivel into portrait mode (though not everyone needs this); both are solved with a VESA monitor stand—at significant extra cost of both the stand and the adaptor. Needs a Mac for just about everything, including brightness adjustment. Admittedly, there are other more versatile options at somewhat better prices. Price, obviously, but it's not as bad as some people make it out to be, considering exactly what it is and is supposed to do (Apple does charge a premium, but it's hardly price gouging when compared to its direct competitors' prices). Anti-Mac sentiment of others who really haven't a

Overall Review: Someone mentioned a 24" A**r with a 2ms response time and a 5000:1 contrast ratio, and HDMI connectivity, all for less than half the price of this monitor. It has an abysmal TN panel with terrible color range and accuracy, the 5000:1 contrast ratio is achieved through Dynamic Contrast Ratio (which is a complete sham and makes the overall display look even worse), and the 2ms response time is only from one shade of gray to the next closest shade of gray (rather than black-to-white, or one color to it's complimentary opposite, as the Apple display is measured). And while the competitor's display may be legitimately faster (by a negligible degree of 4ms for its true speed), that's part of the nature of TN panels (cheap, consumer grade) versus S-IPS panels (expensive, professional grade). And, Mini DisplayPort essentially carries all of the same signals as HDMI plus some, so you'll eventually be able to find an adaptor that will accommodate connecting an HDMI source to a MDP display.