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Strengths: Great black finish with silver accents, front USB and audio ports, inverted motherboard helps cooling, large enough to fit big graphics cards
Weaknesses: No included fans, have to remove HDD cage when installing motherboard, air flow easily blocked by HDD or optical drive ribbons
Summary: This is an excellent case. Starting with the outside, the finish is beautiful, and the silver sides on the front make this case lovely. There are two USB ports as well as headphone and mic inputs on the front, which make it very convenient. The case is easy to get into with three large screws that keep the side panel in place.
Now the inside. First things first, the motherboard is installed upside down. The PCI and other ports are on top and the CPU is on bottom. This provides some advantages and disadvantages. Since the CPU is on the bottom, cooler air is blown onto it since cool air drops and hot air rises. Because hot air rises though, the graphics card can get very hot. Another thing about graphics card is that it basically splits the case in two, with a top half and bottom half. This is fine as long as you're PSU and GPU can cool itself.
Other things to mention is that it does not come with fans, but it does have one 120mm fan space in the front, 2 80mm fans in the back, and one 80mm on the side, but you can use the mesh to install another fan.
Lastly, the screwless design works very well. All parts stay securely in their places, but you do have to remove the HDD cage when taking the motherboard out or putting it in. Also, for a micro atx case, there are 2 5.25" and 2 3" spots, which is pretty rare.
All in all, great case with plenty of room which still keeping it compact.
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