A Closer Look – Interior
The side panel is relatively easy to remove, just be sure to put it somewhere safe as it is a heavy glass panel. On the interior, there’s quite a bit of space, as the HDD bays are either on the backplate or tucked under the PSU cover, leaving a lot of room for longer expansion cards to be installed. There’s a large CPU cooler mounting cut-out behind the motherboard too, as well as a lot of cable routeing grommets, which should ease the installation process.
The PSU is mounted in the lower section of the chassis, hiding a lot of excess cable in the process, which should help you get a neat and tidy looking build with minimal effort. There are a few cable routeing grommets here too, so you can reach the headers on the bottom of the motherboard, as well as pass cables up to your expansion cards.
The expansion slots are a screw-in design, and can be reused, no cheap snap-off covers here!
In the front of the chassis, three very nice looking 120mm RGB LED fans, giving you a huge wall of airflow to blast through your system. You could fit a slim radiator here if you wanted, but this chassis is designed more towards air cooling than radiator support.
Tucked away on the side of the front panel, this lovely Game Max logo sits behind the glass and should light up when the system is powered on.
There’s a reasonable amount of space behind the motherboard, and there are loads of cable tie loops to help keep things in check. The cable routeing grommets look a little small, but there’s certainly enough of them to make up for that.
If you’re worried about having unsightly fan cables trailing all over your motherboard, fear not, as there’s built-in fan hub behind the motherboard, meaning you can keep things looking neat and tidy; just bear in mind you’ll need a Molex connector to power this.
While you can screw on a couple of 2.5″ drives directly alongside the motherboard, you can also fit 2 x 3.5/2.5″ drives below the PSU cover. 4 HDD mounts may not sound a lot, but it’s more than enough for most system builds, and if you’re using an M.2 equipped motherboard, that gives you another option too.
The PSU mounting section isn’t particularly big, but with care you should be able to cram any excess cables in here too, keeping the rest of the build looking neat and tidy. However, with dual tempered glass windows, I would advise a shorter design and modular power supply to get the best effect.
Remember I said the front panel was hiding more detail? Behind the glass panel, you can see there are screw mounts for 3 x 120mm fans, of course, as that’s what is installed there.
There’s also this lovely honeycomb effect finish, which should look pretty cool once the LED lighting is powered on.
Knock off 805
£40 cheaper and just as good build quality… you make the similarities sound like a bad thing.
I only said three words bro. I doubt the quality is as good because this is full steel and plastic as the 805 is entirely made of sandblasted aluminum. I said knock of because the case has a shameless copy of the honeycomb front design from the 805.
and it has a basement and rubber grommets, there is also a case called Segotep SG-K7 and Omega Rgb X, so in term of estetics it’s better then all of these
Aesthetics is subjective and up to tastes. So it’s no way it can be better it’s up to the user. If you have custom cables some people like to show that off without a basement. And rubber from Kenya aren’t necessary when the aluminum is soft around the edges and you have good cable management. Grommets are ugly
it has no plastic on it. I own this case and am very impressed with the build quality, worth a lot more than it costs.
Over here in Australia we have a case that looks very similar and I have tried to research and find it but it doesn’t seem to exist. It is called the ACase Glaze RGB Gaming Case, is this the same case? It is being sold for $149 AUD and has very similar but not identical features, anyone know if its the same?
I have this case and got it from maplins at £95.
Its has a few flaws like fitting the radiator, unable to fit 2 fans underneath the rad as the asus motherboard is to wide and has 12volt plug in the way and the ram sticks are also to in the way.
So hardy any head room for attaching any fans on my cooler master rad.
Little issue, The rubber feet mounts are rubbish and fall off, the sticky pads need better glue, so moving around the pc case move with ease and place case carefully om a surface.
The usb 3 adapter don’t fit on my board as no plug socket for it, so is useless to me and I do have 2 usb 3 sockets. So I would of liked 2 front usb 3 sockets and possible extension leads with fitted usb adapters. so I could of plugged in round the backend from the motherboard to the usb sockets.
But guess you get what you pay for. May chop the lead and solider a usb lead on instead…
The front glass has hardly any air flow sucking into the case and suppose they could of made a small wide plastic top air flow filter and a bottom one attached to the glass panel. made the glass a tiny bit smaller. Guess I’m the one for ideas..
Mounts for Dvd player, blueray, burner, they are in the case for fitting two drive bays. What the hell. They is no way of fitting any drive bays unless that you want to dremel and cut away front metal and remove one fan. Then have to cut the glass to size and make 2 new mounts fit glass back.
So you’ll have to use extenals drives unless you don’t mind bit of diy.
I prefer a case where you can mount in drive bays and over digital mounted bays for controls of fans and temp, ect. User choice, what You able to afford.
All in all not a bad case and looks great..