Final Thoughts
Price
The new Game Max Onyx certainly ticks all the right boxes when it comes to features, but what’s most impressive is that it does it for just £78.99. That’s a pretty competitive price for a chassis with so much tempered glass and 3 x high-quality fans pre-installed. It’s cheaper than the Corsair 460X, the Phanteks P400, the InWin 905, the InWin 303, the BitFenix Aurora, the Thermaltake View 31 TG, and more. Does it look or feel cheaper than them? Nope.
Overview
The Onyx is an impressive chassis, to say the least, in the ever-growing market for chassis with tempered glass and colourful lighting, it’s pretty much one of the best options on the market right now. Not everyone wants to spend well over a £100 just to get some glass on their chassis. Go back a few years ago and the price of the Onyx would have gotten you a very plastic heavy glossy chassis with acrylic windows, so to get a durable steel and glass finish now, with RGB LED fans, is pretty fantastic value.
The build quality is very good, it’s nothing incredible, but it’s unlikely to falter anytime soon. However, it’s very builder friendly, with lots of cable routeing grommets to help get a clean-looking build, as well as a little extra space under the PSU cover to hide cable excess. The fan hub behind the motherboard is another big help too, as it means you don’t have to try to find every motherboard header for every fan or have those cables on show.
The overall size of the chassis is quite tight, limiting support for water cooling. While I would have liked to see it be just a bit taller on the interior to fit a 240mm radiator in the top, or a little wider to support a 120mm fitting in the rear, these are not problems for everyone. Not everyone wants their chassis to be bigger, especially to support hardware they may not even want, so it’s really up to you if this chassis literally fits your requirements.
My favourite feature is still those three 120mm fans. 3 x 120mm fans don’t come cheap, especially once you add multi-colour LED lighting to them, so having them pre-installed certainly adds a lot of value for money. The front panel honeycomb design looks fantastic once the lights are on, and the warm glow from the lighting does a nice job of lighting up your build, while the tinted glass prevents it from looking too bright.
Pros
- Durable build quality
- Exceptional value for money
- Room for extra-long expansion cards
- Lots of cable routeing grommets
- 3 x 120mm LED fans pre-installed
- Built-in fan hub
- PSU cover
- Tempered glass panels
- All-black interior and exterior metalwork
Cons
- None
Neutral
- Limited radiator support
- No rear fan pre-installed
- Super bright power LED
“The Game Max Onyx is one of the best value for money tempered glass chassis on the market right now. Just because they price is low, don’t think this is a cheaper product, it’s just as durable and stylish as it’s more expensive competitors, making it a great choice for anyone who wants plenty of features at a competitive price.”
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..