Great product for my purposes. Good amount of room for a couple peripherals (2xSSD and 1xHDD). Fits a RTX 3070 no problem. Modular PSU definitely recommended as cabling will be tight, but there are plenty of mounting points for fans. Liquid cooling would also be pretty tight and require some research on dimensions to try to make it fit as the motherboard only clears the intake fans on the right side by a couple millimeters.
This is plenty capable of being a gaming HTPC or desktop PC, with room for a decent air cooler and even more room for a larger cooler if you only had M.2 drives or just 1 HDD/SDD so you could remove the optical drive tray. I am using the Noctua NH-U9S in a Pull configuration. If this were an HTPC with an optical drive, a low profile cooler would probably be needed (such as the stock Ryzen cooler), in order to plug in the optical drive. Optionally one could try right-angle connectors to make that configuration work with a tower cooler.
I think the case has a good fit and finish, and the intake filters are very effective, without affecting the airflow too much. Plastic front instead of actual brushed aluminum is a shame but the case looks great in an entertainment center regardless. The general build quality is very good, with hefty black aluminum for the case. The supplied screws are pretty cheap, but they work.
Three downsides I can think of are the lack of thumb screws for the cover, which can be easily replaced by aftermarket thumb screws, and the strangely large and bulky USB header cable which is much too long and feels like it has reinforced rubber that is overkill just for 2xUSB 3.0 headers. The 120mm fan that comes with the case also happens to be the noisiest even though it's a low-RPM fan. If this weren't a gaming PC then it would be an OK fan to keep at low speed, but for a gaming build you would probably want to replace it with a higher quality fan.
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 2 |
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