High Airflow Micro ATX PC Case - Support MATX, Mini-ITX, Slim With USB2.0x2 I/O Port, White Without Fans

For the price you can’t beat it. I wanted to go as small as I could for as cheap as I could, so ITX is out, it’s small but not cheap. Just plan your build before you buy this case. If you’re going to use a MATX motherboard make sure you get the smaller boards with only 2 DIMM slots, you can see why in the pictures and if you look at other reviews you’ll see people complaining about not being able to plug in their USB cable or fan clearance. I fit an MSI B450M-A Pro Max MATX, Ryzen 5 3600, and MSI RX 5700 XT Mech in there. I did have to install in a certain order to get everything in there. First the MB, then GPU, then fans, then RAM and NVME. Yes I had to wait on the NVMe because mine has a heat sink and the way I had to swing my GPU in it wouldn’t go with the NVMe installed. It works great and temps aren’t bad but I am going to install a little tower cooler. I have a be quiet Pure Rock Slim but it only allows the cooler to be installed in an up and down orientation with the AM4 mount. The Pure Rock Slim 2 looks to have solved that problem with a different mount but I have the original. I’ll probably order a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 Mini or the less expensive Peerless Assassin 90 SE. Both are dual towers and should cool my 3600 easily and also have headroom for a 5700X3D if I choose to upgrade. Airflow in the case isn’t amazing as the slits in the front don’t allow much air to pass but it appears to enough for my use case. I will be flipping the case on its side, throwing it in my entertainment center and use it as an HTPC with either SteamOS or some variant like Bazzite.

For the price it is a great value. I wanted to build a silent SFF computer and jam in as much power as I could. This case did not disappoint. I was able to get a 5800x cpu paired with a 9060 XT 16GB in the case. I had a 6800XT that was slightly too large to fit in the case so I bought this and at 240mm in length it fit perfectly. I was able to fit 2x120mm thin case fans in the front with no real issue. The GPU was a double slot card and a pretty standard size double fan design so kudos to the designers for making that possible with such a small case. The only real cons I have is A. the gpu slots on the case are bendy metal that once you take them off you cannot replace them and the fan that is included is incredibly loud. I replaced it with a Noctua fan and now you cannot hear the system when its running which is crazy.

I bought this case for my son. He likes to take a desktop PC and a small monitor for gaming while traveling to out-of-state or out-of-country friends homes.I cobbled this PC together using spare parts I had from older builds.With the compact size of this case, it fits nicely in his hard-side carry-on bag. If he's careful, it should do well for traveling.I will be honest. This case probably isn't for a first time builder.Even with a lot of builds under my belt, I painted myself into a corner a couple of times with this build and had to take components out to finagle other things around.I used a mATX board, Ryzen 7 CPU, and an older video card I had laying around. It was a good sized video card (L=225 W=119 H=40 mm).I have (2) 120mm fans in front, and an 80mm fan in back.It's using a ID-COOLING SE-903-XT CPU air cooler, a M2 NVMe main drive and a secondary 3.5in mechanical drive for basic storage. The power supply is a full size ATX power supply.The good news. It all fit. Tight, but it did fit.It's a bit like playing Tetris with the 2 front fans coming out multiple times so I could see what I was doing, or to give myself room to maneuver things around.The bad news is just forget about cable management.There just was no good way to make this build look clean without a back panel to hide the runs.One last MAJOR thing to be aware of if you are going to use the front headphone jack.Go into your BIOS, and make sure the audio jack is set to AC97 not HDAUDIO.This case uses the older and more simple 8 pin connector which doesn't support HDAUDIO.The front panel headphone jack WILL NOT work until you make this BIOS change.