Bought this case in the weekend and wow am I happy with it. Wasn't sure if it was going to grow on me (as this is my first full tower case) but it has.
Long story short here are the pros and cons:
Pro:
- AMPLE amount of space inside the case
- Lots of space on the back side of the case (non-windowed side) to fit your cables in
- Very well placed rubber grommets to give you easy cable management.
- Comes with 3 Corsair 140mm fans (2 front ones are LED lit, rear one is not)
- Very nifty tooless drive cages
- Easy to clean (and take off) front and bottom fan filter
- Excellent designed swiv-able (and removable) side panels
- Very solid even given the design of the two plexi glass side panels
- Ample amount of places to mount radiators (back, top, front, bottom)
Cons:
- The stealth optical drive does confuse new people (it did for me) on how to actually put in your optical drive. You have to take off the entire front panel, by pulling the 4 sets of clips behind the front panel itself, to fit your optical drive in correctly.
- The non-windowed side panel doesn't appear to close properly if the top 2 SSD tooless brackets are kept in place. The panel closes but doesn't lock (at least not for me, as I had to remove the 2 top ssd brackets to make the panel close and lock)
- If you plan on mounting dual 120/140mm radiator behind the front fans, you won't be able to mount the hard drive bay near the front sadly (and obviously)
- If you have a large, non-modular power supply, you “may” struggle to find a place to sit your hard drive cages. As mentioned above, if you decide to mount a dual 120/140mm radiator in the front, the octopus of cables from your non-modular power supply will block the back hard drive cage as well. (I ended up just mounting my hard drive to the bottom of the case without the cages).
Despite it's cons, this case is definitely worth getting if you're looking for something to show off the inside of your gaming rig or even if you're just looking to buy a new case. I upgraded to this from my old mid-tower Antec 902 case and have been loving this. You will not regret purchasing this case.