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The Case Review: Montech MC-90 Series Cable Management and Build Quality

I recently had the opportunity to unbox and review the Montech MC-90 series cable management case, which is part of a new lineup of cases from this relatively unknown brand. The case costs around 93 US dollars at the time of my video, and I'll share my thoughts on its build quality, cable management, and overall value.

When it comes to the case's design, the Montech MC-90 series has some unique features that set it apart from other cases in the same price range. The card fits just fine, but you know if you want to actually run this card in here because of how close it is to the side panel - you're gonna have to end up using like the uh cable mod 90-degree adapters which by the way we have some on the way finally we can take a look at to see if they'll clear something like this. Based on what I've seen, looks at the 90-degree adapter would clear this but you're not using the standard adapter and you're not using even a native plug to clear that it is far too close to the side panel so keep that in mind if you get a 90-degree adapter it should I say should it should work.

The build quality of the Montech MC-90 series is definitely there, even with all the side panels off. Like oh fine it's fine even with the side panel off like okay it's not very flexy at all - you've got big rubber feet okay you got big feet with little rubber pads on the bottom there so it's not sliding all around it sits firm it doesn't wiggle and that's without any of the side panels on. This is definitely a plus, as many cases in this price range struggle with build quality.

One thing to consider when building with this case is airflow. The only intakes are these guys in the back right here - there's nothing in the front this is kind of turned into like a standard design a lot of companies are doing it this way now solid panel in the front so you can see your components intake on the side here they put this mid fan and I would probably honestly run it back here if you want to know the truth because if I put it there and then I have a pastu fan with a graphics card well I guess that would work because it goes up through yeah this could assist with the blow through cooler but I think personally down here blow it into the graphics card which is going to help you have your exhaust here and your two intakes maybe you put at least an exhaust up here.

Airflow on these kinds of chassis is weird because it has to make this turn and then it's got heat wants to rise although it doesn't take much forced to overcome convection any airflow will overcome convection - it's a very weak force. The mid plate I don't feel like this is an area we should rely on too much for airflow I think these two in this exhaust will handle this component this compartment just fine you put this up here because of the reverse fan it's going to have to go like that which is where the cage is showing and then the RGB is squished between the panel and the fan.

In terms of fittings, there isn't a whole lot of room for radiator reservoirs and top fittings - with in terms of fittings but you could go with a 240 rad here with the pump res combo mounted to that radiator and then you could put the 360 if you put one on the top fittings on this side and then you'd be able to water cool this case pretty easily.

As for the RGB lighting, I have to say that I'm really fond of the blue color - it looks neat. It's also available in white and black, with gray being another option. The only part of the unboxing experience was the color confusion - they call this "Morocco Blue" but to me, it just looks like cobalt.

Overall, if you're considering spending 93 bucks on a case, I think you'd be happy with your purchase. The build quality is there, cable management might be a little bit tricky, and airflow could use some improvement. However, the overall design of the Montech MC-90 series seems to be well-thought-out, especially when taking into account its unique features like the 90-degree adapter compatibility.

In terms of cable management, I would recommend planning ahead and utilizing the bottom structure as much as possible. You'd load this thing up with nvmes and remove the cage entirely that way you get all of that space in the bottom to hide wires and controllers or whatever else that you have going on down there.

Thanks for watching, guys! If you're curious about spending 93 bucks on a case, I'm curious too. Let me know in the comments below what kind of cases you'd spend that amount on - are they something like this or would you choose a different option? Sound off in the comments section below if you have any questions or concerns, and don't forget to like and subscribe for more case reviews and computer hardware content!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enbeen a year a year and a half ago or so thereabouts I don't know time's just a construct but anyway I digress we found this brand called montec at Micro Center while we were doing this like budget build challenge of like what kind of build could we do for a thousand dollars at the height of things costing stupid expensive we were actually quite impressed the the montec brought a ton of value and gave us some features and stuff we didn't expect for the price and then after that video montek discovered us and so they sent us the montec sky 2 the best value and this one's high end it just says I end but there's a h there because it's covered by the you know get amazing prices on the brand do you love it micro center micro center has over 30 000 items in stock including desktops laptops computer components monitors TVs and more not sure which parts to choose for your next build then use microcenter's custom PC Builder to find compatible parts create your parts list add them to your cart and use same-day pickup at one of microcenter's 25 locations nationwide and if you're not comfortable building it one of Micro Center's professional Builders can build it for you as fast the same day for a fee and if you need ideas for a build then head to Micro Center's build showcase for great build inspiration or submit your build for others to see to see everything that Micro Center has to offer click the link in the description below so I gotta unbox this right now I wanted to unbox all this on camera with you guys because you guys like to see the unboxings to know exactly what you're getting um yeah montec so this isn't a Micro Center video or anything like that in fact montec obviously sponsored today's video by sending us this I just stab my table bound to happen anyway they they sent us this case to take a look at um they said just three of them actually there's a black a gray and a Morocco blue or in my case because I'm blue yellow colorblind Morocco gray alright so here we go now they got the protection off you can see like I said this one comes with more high-end um it is one of those cases that gives you kind of some compartmentalized bottom pieces here um and we've got our this is very trendy now like the last couple of years a lot of cases now put fans on the motherboard tray area it kind of makes sense it's another area to bring air in or exhaust it depending on your needs but this is a this is a mid Tower ATX case but it's somewhere else on the box it actually says middle Tower buy it right here metal middle tower case so it has an ATX Micro ATX and Mini ITX uh has a type c dimensions are 430 millimeters by 215 millimeters by 490 millimeters or seven PCI slots up to 400 millimeter length of Graphics graphics card support 168 millimeters worth of CPU Cooler height apparently for the pre-installed fans wow so there are two 120 millimeter reverse argb pwm fans I'm not sure what reversed means that's on the side so I guess that means pulling air in we have one installed on the Shroud so I guess what you see in the picture is what you get you get the two here the one on the Shroud and the one in the exhaust so that's kind of nice I I feel like the Shroud fan is probably unnecessary personally I'd rather have one on the top than there um yeah so we have fan support on the top for two 120 millimeters which I would personally put that up there but that's just me and then radiator support on the side we could fit up to a 240 on the front we could fit up to a 360 or on the top we could hit a 360 and on the rear a 120. so a lot of support the thing is because it is a mid tower case you're gonna have to be really kind of selective on where you occupy these radiators because they can interfere like a 360 on the top and a 240 on the back panel the height of the 360 coming down with the fans could interfere with the depth of that radiator so there's things that you have to keep in mind when you go to you know outfit these types of mid Tower cases with RADS so let's see what we get inside I chose the blue specifically for this video because of the fact that not a lot of case manufacturers we'll go with these funky colors because to be honest they don't sell as good as black I've seen it a lot in comments this case is awesome but they should make it in white and most case manufacturers would tell you white sells like one to like every eight cases for black and so it's one of those things where with it being a lower well I guess I had undone the tape on the bottom whatever with there being a low adoption rate of certain case colors that means the amount of them that they manufacture are less which means less of a bulk discount on manufacturing which makes that case actually more expensive to produce which is why oftentimes you'll see like a white case costing 10 or 20 bucks more than a black case so they have to make up that manufacturing cost because they're not making it up in volume of sales I have to assume blue would be even less than that unless there's enough people out there going I want something different please lay the case down removing the glass side panel okay I'll follow the rules I'll be a lemming that's because I just don't want you to drop it tempered glass does not do well with Corner impact like that this is how we know there it goes all right so here's the extra bits you get with it you know what I wasn't expecting to see here are blue grommets that match um I'm kind of torn on that personally I feel like the black would have been a nice contrast because you have the black on the fans now one thing I want to point out yes these These are pulling air in so these are intake fans the fans feel nice their RGB is is true RGB ardb anyway one of the things we learned about the Monte case we used in the past which was like 50 bucks or super cheap or 60 bucks something like that um they were RGB but they weren't adjustable or controllable in any way they just had different covered lights in them that were static so it looked like a rainbow but it didn't move but you know when it was like a I think it was like 50 bucks for that case that came with like three in the front and all the fans and stuff outfitted it was really hard to argue with that captive thumb screws on the site the case side panel which is nice so you don't lose them this comes off magnetic fan filter so you can take it out easily you just stick it back when it's time to clean it if you check this out right here you can see these fans are recessed in you can see this this kind of the way it kind of protrudes in here it's recessed in from the motherboard tray which will help with interference from the top red hanging down so it had this been flat and they're mounted sticking out and you add 25 to 30 more mils of a radiator sitting here it can interfere with this however the top piece is offset with multiple mounting angles there so by pushing the red towards the glass away from the motherboard tray means that you could occupy the 240 area here with a rad and a 360 rad on the top potentially without any conflict now we'll start to get a little crowded over here because if you're also putting a pump and in the reservoir and everything over here you have a lot going on so you need to be mindful of where your pipes are coming out I'd probably put the pipes on the 360 or the top 240 or whatever on this side that way you have a little bit extra room there's something to keep in mind right there it did say that there was a mounted fan wait that's not pre-installed that's just pre-placed in the Box okay well I mean we got it remember how I said I wouldn't put it there anyway I would put it on the top now you can just do that now the reverse fan what does that mean typically your airflow goes from the side with no cage that's this cross these these you have to have the Hub mounted somehow so that's the support pieces for the Hub typically it will go from the open side exhausting through the cage this is the opposite it pulls in through the cage and exhausts towards the front ironically the cage design is still designed with the aerodynamics of that way involved like the way they're scooped and they're they're pointed so which means it's pulling air through the flat piece they one thing they didn't do in their design was flip that piece around too so it would smooth in the air as it goes through so these are reversed that way you get the pretty side facing you as it's pulling air in because see the blades turn this way and the cages on the back side now the one on the rear is a standard non-reverse so this is this is going in the direction that you would expect that it's pulling air from the open side and exhausting it through the rear so I just wanted to point that out that if you're the kind of person that has built enough systems and you look at this and go oh okay that's the exhaust side and well that's not it's reverse that's that's what the reverse means so that's nice because otherwise you would end up getting the cage side which is not as pretty there's plenty of ventilation in terms of you know perforation and Grill in this case for it to be able to actually exhaust it I mean look all the i o Shields or all the i o covers here are ventilated um you got vents above the fan right here obviously the whole top so I wouldn't be too worried about it causing too much positive pressure it would just push air out elsewhere but this will help direct the airflow towards it but looking at the rear here you can see you get your cable channel in the center which has velcro straps we get an argb and pwm fan controller it's not something you typically get when you start you know dealing with value cases now I say value case Loosely because this is a 93 case 93 US dollars but I think you're getting a lot for that money you're getting four fans that are RGB you're getting the controller which is nice here has extra slots you have three more available to it plus you have three more argb headers available to it and then of course you've got your header that on the other end just terminates to a pwm well this is your your front panel connector there which by the way is one single header which is nice now because people have learned front panel connectors are standardized in the way that they're laid out so now instead of trying to put individual little plugs in just plug in one whole header and you're done but anyway here's your input to your argb right there and then you have your input to your pwm fan right there so you can still control everything in here with your motherboard or whatever software you have this connected to whatever controller you could even controller to a controller this is just a splitter and then everything can work off of one piece of software whatever that piece of software is that you choose to use so it's nice to see the inclusion of this now and it's not proprietary in any way way you can plug this up to anything like I just said or you can remove it entirely if you don't want to use it but anyway here is our extra fan screws and motherboard standoffs and and mounting screws and such here so in here you get additional zip ties velcro straps a decent amount of zip ties actually way more than you typically get with a case wow hey you get your pass-through screws right here for mounting this because look see how this has this sort of a long tube I guess so you can mount that and then the screws go through here into that side panel so the mid plate right there so you get screws for that they give you a bios speaker normally cases don't give you bios speakers you know what the beep is back I like the beep by the way hard drive mounting screws motherboard mounting screws AIO screws and then these are dust caps these are dust caps specifically for wow I'm blind so these are dust caps for the uh i o or the front panel stuff up here that you may not be using so you actually get a USBC plug cap you get two USB caps and then you get the little plunger they're like little plunger caps to stick into your headphone and microphone Jack so if you're not using them with them being on top dust can collect in there I've never seen anybody come up with this before anyway if you have seen a case manufacturer come with those plugs comment down below Jay you're an idiot this brand is what the one that has them so here's our removable tray this is a two and a half inch Mount only and that's just going to be specifically because of the gap between here and the side panel three and a half inch Drive is going to be too fat to melt right here those are gonna have to go down here this is also removable so if you're planning on using a super long power supply or you want to utilize this basement area for cable management slash maybe mounting a pump or something down here move the thumb screw and that just comes out like that has pre-installed rubber mounts which is nice for the drive however it is not a sled type is not a quick disconnect or a hot swap you are going to have to pull out the cage Mount the drives to it and then put the cage back in and put in your plugs some of the trade-offs you get when you have to go with a lesser price point now if I want to remove the front side to get to the mesh I like that you can remove the mesh because let's say you want to do a custom paint job on this or something being able to remove this mesh not have it be riveted in there is actually quite nice that one comes off just like that and then here's the other two screws right here interesting that with the amount of vent space that's here this is the only openings right here I would have expected it to be a little bit bigger I'm assuming this is just for case rigidity structural rigidity so this is the only place air is going to actually be making its way in through there but like I said if you wanted to like custom paint these grilles a different color for some accent or something you could easily get to those that'd be kind of neat foreign I would put a small screen behind each one of these super ultra wide ones oh yeah that super long one the downside is you do that you lose any ventilation from right here however the bottom still has obviously its intake for the power supply so that's not going to be affected oh yeah two you could just put a screen here all right modify this in some way or 3D print something to replace this put a screen there that'd be cool you know what it's like you know Marquez is like matte black everything we're just like LCD screen everything even my glasses so the standoffs are already pre-installed which is nice they're pre-installed for a standard ATX case as you can see though eatx is not gonna work because of the fact it will overhang right here even standard ATX there's not a lot of room between the fan and The Grommet right here so this is something you have to keep in mind with it being recessed like this but also a short case your wires are going to be kind of making an aggressive Bend back through there so definitely keep that in mind when it comes to clearance I do like that we have a grommet right here that way we don't have to try and run extra cables through here for our graphics card they can just come right up through here um the rubber grommets feel very thin be careful pushing wires through maybe guide them otherwise you might rip off some of the actual grommet so when you're push in your cables through just keep in mind that these could tear off if you if you really cables will get kind of grabby and they'll pull that now I have torn grommets in the past something to keep in mind I just want to point that out now it's a mid Tower and we thought what would be the ultimate Challenge can it fit an Rog strix in there yes you know what that actually looks kind of cool it looks kind of cool well it wouldn't be cool but it looks kind of cool like just filled in with a graphics card like this I think if we had the White edition of the uh yeah do the White Edition with all white Parts white fan frames at least the ugly blue and red Parts down at the bottom so all you're left is this which wouldn't Clash but dude that actually looks pretty neat in there well remember we showed it didn't fit in the other case when we did the size review of this so there you go it's a middle Tower as they call it but it fits it now okay some things you need to think about while you're building here like I said your cables not a lot of room right here so you have to be smart with your cable management you do have grommets down here while they're pass-throughs no grommets there which is kind of unfortunate because you have them everywhere else you can do it up here but you can run your USB cables your USBC your front panel and everything up through here you could run your 24 pin and depending on your motherboard you might have to run USB 3 through here or something power supply cable can come right up through here only will it make it to the graphics card though if it were something like that ah you know the card fits but you know if you want to actually run this card in here because of how close it is to the side panel you're gonna have to end up using like the uh cable mod 90 degree adapters which by the way we have some on the way finally we can take a look at to see if they'll clear something like this based on what I've seen looks at the 90 degree adapter would clear this but you're not using the standard adapter and you're not using even a native plug to clear that it is far too close to the side panel so keep that in mind if you get a 90 degree adapter it should I say should it should work things to typically things you haven't had to think about until this generation of will my cable clear the side panel whatever overall I think the build quality is there even with all the side panels off like oh fine it's fine even with the side panel off like okay it's not very flexy at all you've got big rubber feet okay you got big feet with little rubber pads on the bottom there so it's not sliding all around it sits firm it doesn't wiggle and that's without any of the side panels on so there you go um other things to think about in terms of airflow your only intakes are these guys in the back right here there's nothing in the front this is kind of turned into like a standard design a lot of companies are doing it this way now solid panel in the front so you can see your components intake on the side here they put this mid fan and I would probably honestly run it back here if you want to know the truth because if I put it there and then I have a pastu fan with a graphics card well I guess that would work because it goes up through yeah this could assist with the blow through cooler but I think personally down here blow it into the graphics card which is going to help you have your exhaust here and your two intakes maybe you put at least an exhaust up here um airflow on these kinds of chassis is weird because it has to make this turn and then it's got heat wants to rise although it doesn't take much forced to overcome convection any airflow will overcome convection it's a very weak Force the mid plate I don't feel like this is an area we should rely on too much for airflow I think these two in this exhaust will handle this component this compartment just fine you put this up here because of the reverse fan it's going to have to go like that which is where the cage is showing and then the RGB is squished between the panel and the fan if you're going to water cool this not a whole lot of room here for radiator Reservoir and top uh with in terms of fittings but you could go with a 240 rad here with the pump res combo mounted to that radiator and then you could put the 360 if you put one on the top fittings on this side and then you'd be able to water cool this case pretty easily so once again like I said montech a brand that we had never heard of until we went to Micro Center that day and found a pretty significant value this one costs a bit more like I said 93 US dollars at the time I'm making this video I'll put a link down below that you guys can check out to see what current pricing is because it's always all over the place especially as raw materials prices change specifically like steel the prices usually will fluctuate but anyway I like this blue it looks neat it's also available in I believe this is white and black and I think there's even a gray color we have all three of them this is the only one we unboxed I kind of want to do a white and blue build now like white Parts in this coat in this sort of they call it Morocco blue to me it looks more Cobalt don't trust me especially when I can't see blue properly alright guys thanks for watching sound off down below if this is a case you'd spend 93 bucks on I'm curious that's where you guys would spend your money seems like a pretty good value build quality is there Cable Management might be a little bit on the tricky side because you don't have a lot of room right here so you got to really plan and utilize the basement structure as much as possible I would load this thing up with nvmes and remove the cage entirely that way you get all of that space in the bottom to hide wires and you know controllers or whatever else that you have going on down there alright guys thanks for watching thank you to montek for sending us this case to take a look at today like I said all the information you need to check it out for yourself is down in the description below as always guys we'll see in the next onebeen a year a year and a half ago or so thereabouts I don't know time's just a construct but anyway I digress we found this brand called montec at Micro Center while we were doing this like budget build challenge of like what kind of build could we do for a thousand dollars at the height of things costing stupid expensive we were actually quite impressed the the montec brought a ton of value and gave us some features and stuff we didn't expect for the price and then after that video montek discovered us and so they sent us the montec sky 2 the best value and this one's high end it just says I end but there's a h there because it's covered by the you know get amazing prices on the brand do you love it micro center micro center has over 30 000 items in stock including desktops laptops computer components monitors TVs and more not sure which parts to choose for your next build then use microcenter's custom PC Builder to find compatible parts create your parts list add them to your cart and use same-day pickup at one of microcenter's 25 locations nationwide and if you're not comfortable building it one of Micro Center's professional Builders can build it for you as fast the same day for a fee and if you need ideas for a build then head to Micro Center's build showcase for great build inspiration or submit your build for others to see to see everything that Micro Center has to offer click the link in the description below so I gotta unbox this right now I wanted to unbox all this on camera with you guys because you guys like to see the unboxings to know exactly what you're getting um yeah montec so this isn't a Micro Center video or anything like that in fact montec obviously sponsored today's video by sending us this I just stab my table bound to happen anyway they they sent us this case to take a look at um they said just three of them actually there's a black a gray and a Morocco blue or in my case because I'm blue yellow colorblind Morocco gray alright so here we go now they got the protection off you can see like I said this one comes with more high-end um it is one of those cases that gives you kind of some compartmentalized bottom pieces here um and we've got our this is very trendy now like the last couple of years a lot of cases now put fans on the motherboard tray area it kind of makes sense it's another area to bring air in or exhaust it depending on your needs but this is a this is a mid Tower ATX case but it's somewhere else on the box it actually says middle Tower buy it right here metal middle tower case so it has an ATX Micro ATX and Mini ITX uh has a type c dimensions are 430 millimeters by 215 millimeters by 490 millimeters or seven PCI slots up to 400 millimeter length of Graphics graphics card support 168 millimeters worth of CPU Cooler height apparently for the pre-installed fans wow so there are two 120 millimeter reverse argb pwm fans I'm not sure what reversed means that's on the side so I guess that means pulling air in we have one installed on the Shroud so I guess what you see in the picture is what you get you get the two here the one on the Shroud and the one in the exhaust so that's kind of nice I I feel like the Shroud fan is probably unnecessary personally I'd rather have one on the top than there um yeah so we have fan support on the top for two 120 millimeters which I would personally put that up there but that's just me and then radiator support on the side we could fit up to a 240 on the front we could fit up to a 360 or on the top we could hit a 360 and on the rear a 120. so a lot of support the thing is because it is a mid tower case you're gonna have to be really kind of selective on where you occupy these radiators because they can interfere like a 360 on the top and a 240 on the back panel the height of the 360 coming down with the fans could interfere with the depth of that radiator so there's things that you have to keep in mind when you go to you know outfit these types of mid Tower cases with RADS so let's see what we get inside I chose the blue specifically for this video because of the fact that not a lot of case manufacturers we'll go with these funky colors because to be honest they don't sell as good as black I've seen it a lot in comments this case is awesome but they should make it in white and most case manufacturers would tell you white sells like one to like every eight cases for black and so it's one of those things where with it being a lower well I guess I had undone the tape on the bottom whatever with there being a low adoption rate of certain case colors that means the amount of them that they manufacture are less which means less of a bulk discount on manufacturing which makes that case actually more expensive to produce which is why oftentimes you'll see like a white case costing 10 or 20 bucks more than a black case so they have to make up that manufacturing cost because they're not making it up in volume of sales I have to assume blue would be even less than that unless there's enough people out there going I want something different please lay the case down removing the glass side panel okay I'll follow the rules I'll be a lemming that's because I just don't want you to drop it tempered glass does not do well with Corner impact like that this is how we know there it goes all right so here's the extra bits you get with it you know what I wasn't expecting to see here are blue grommets that match um I'm kind of torn on that personally I feel like the black would have been a nice contrast because you have the black on the fans now one thing I want to point out yes these These are pulling air in so these are intake fans the fans feel nice their RGB is is true RGB ardb anyway one of the things we learned about the Monte case we used in the past which was like 50 bucks or super cheap or 60 bucks something like that um they were RGB but they weren't adjustable or controllable in any way they just had different covered lights in them that were static so it looked like a rainbow but it didn't move but you know when it was like a I think it was like 50 bucks for that case that came with like three in the front and all the fans and stuff outfitted it was really hard to argue with that captive thumb screws on the site the case side panel which is nice so you don't lose them this comes off magnetic fan filter so you can take it out easily you just stick it back when it's time to clean it if you check this out right here you can see these fans are recessed in you can see this this kind of the way it kind of protrudes in here it's recessed in from the motherboard tray which will help with interference from the top red hanging down so it had this been flat and they're mounted sticking out and you add 25 to 30 more mils of a radiator sitting here it can interfere with this however the top piece is offset with multiple mounting angles there so by pushing the red towards the glass away from the motherboard tray means that you could occupy the 240 area here with a rad and a 360 rad on the top potentially without any conflict now we'll start to get a little crowded over here because if you're also putting a pump and in the reservoir and everything over here you have a lot going on so you need to be mindful of where your pipes are coming out I'd probably put the pipes on the 360 or the top 240 or whatever on this side that way you have a little bit extra room there's something to keep in mind right there it did say that there was a mounted fan wait that's not pre-installed that's just pre-placed in the Box okay well I mean we got it remember how I said I wouldn't put it there anyway I would put it on the top now you can just do that now the reverse fan what does that mean typically your airflow goes from the side with no cage that's this cross these these you have to have the Hub mounted somehow so that's the support pieces for the Hub typically it will go from the open side exhausting through the cage this is the opposite it pulls in through the cage and exhausts towards the front ironically the cage design is still designed with the aerodynamics of that way involved like the way they're scooped and they're they're pointed so which means it's pulling air through the flat piece they one thing they didn't do in their design was flip that piece around too so it would smooth in the air as it goes through so these are reversed that way you get the pretty side facing you as it's pulling air in because see the blades turn this way and the cages on the back side now the one on the rear is a standard non-reverse so this is this is going in the direction that you would expect that it's pulling air from the open side and exhausting it through the rear so I just wanted to point that out that if you're the kind of person that has built enough systems and you look at this and go oh okay that's the exhaust side and well that's not it's reverse that's that's what the reverse means so that's nice because otherwise you would end up getting the cage side which is not as pretty there's plenty of ventilation in terms of you know perforation and Grill in this case for it to be able to actually exhaust it I mean look all the i o Shields or all the i o covers here are ventilated um you got vents above the fan right here obviously the whole top so I wouldn't be too worried about it causing too much positive pressure it would just push air out elsewhere but this will help direct the airflow towards it but looking at the rear here you can see you get your cable channel in the center which has velcro straps we get an argb and pwm fan controller it's not something you typically get when you start you know dealing with value cases now I say value case Loosely because this is a 93 case 93 US dollars but I think you're getting a lot for that money you're getting four fans that are RGB you're getting the controller which is nice here has extra slots you have three more available to it plus you have three more argb headers available to it and then of course you've got your header that on the other end just terminates to a pwm well this is your your front panel connector there which by the way is one single header which is nice now because people have learned front panel connectors are standardized in the way that they're laid out so now instead of trying to put individual little plugs in just plug in one whole header and you're done but anyway here's your input to your argb right there and then you have your input to your pwm fan right there so you can still control everything in here with your motherboard or whatever software you have this connected to whatever controller you could even controller to a controller this is just a splitter and then everything can work off of one piece of software whatever that piece of software is that you choose to use so it's nice to see the inclusion of this now and it's not proprietary in any way way you can plug this up to anything like I just said or you can remove it entirely if you don't want to use it but anyway here is our extra fan screws and motherboard standoffs and and mounting screws and such here so in here you get additional zip ties velcro straps a decent amount of zip ties actually way more than you typically get with a case wow hey you get your pass-through screws right here for mounting this because look see how this has this sort of a long tube I guess so you can mount that and then the screws go through here into that side panel so the mid plate right there so you get screws for that they give you a bios speaker normally cases don't give you bios speakers you know what the beep is back I like the beep by the way hard drive mounting screws motherboard mounting screws AIO screws and then these are dust caps these are dust caps specifically for wow I'm blind so these are dust caps for the uh i o or the front panel stuff up here that you may not be using so you actually get a USBC plug cap you get two USB caps and then you get the little plunger they're like little plunger caps to stick into your headphone and microphone Jack so if you're not using them with them being on top dust can collect in there I've never seen anybody come up with this before anyway if you have seen a case manufacturer come with those plugs comment down below Jay you're an idiot this brand is what the one that has them so here's our removable tray this is a two and a half inch Mount only and that's just going to be specifically because of the gap between here and the side panel three and a half inch Drive is going to be too fat to melt right here those are gonna have to go down here this is also removable so if you're planning on using a super long power supply or you want to utilize this basement area for cable management slash maybe mounting a pump or something down here move the thumb screw and that just comes out like that has pre-installed rubber mounts which is nice for the drive however it is not a sled type is not a quick disconnect or a hot swap you are going to have to pull out the cage Mount the drives to it and then put the cage back in and put in your plugs some of the trade-offs you get when you have to go with a lesser price point now if I want to remove the front side to get to the mesh I like that you can remove the mesh because let's say you want to do a custom paint job on this or something being able to remove this mesh not have it be riveted in there is actually quite nice that one comes off just like that and then here's the other two screws right here interesting that with the amount of vent space that's here this is the only openings right here I would have expected it to be a little bit bigger I'm assuming this is just for case rigidity structural rigidity so this is the only place air is going to actually be making its way in through there but like I said if you wanted to like custom paint these grilles a different color for some accent or something you could easily get to those that'd be kind of neat foreign I would put a small screen behind each one of these super ultra wide ones oh yeah that super long one the downside is you do that you lose any ventilation from right here however the bottom still has obviously its intake for the power supply so that's not going to be affected oh yeah two you could just put a screen here all right modify this in some way or 3D print something to replace this put a screen there that'd be cool you know what it's like you know Marquez is like matte black everything we're just like LCD screen everything even my glasses so the standoffs are already pre-installed which is nice they're pre-installed for a standard ATX case as you can see though eatx is not gonna work because of the fact it will overhang right here even standard ATX there's not a lot of room between the fan and The Grommet right here so this is something you have to keep in mind with it being recessed like this but also a short case your wires are going to be kind of making an aggressive Bend back through there so definitely keep that in mind when it comes to clearance I do like that we have a grommet right here that way we don't have to try and run extra cables through here for our graphics card they can just come right up through here um the rubber grommets feel very thin be careful pushing wires through maybe guide them otherwise you might rip off some of the actual grommet so when you're push in your cables through just keep in mind that these could tear off if you if you really cables will get kind of grabby and they'll pull that now I have torn grommets in the past something to keep in mind I just want to point that out now it's a mid Tower and we thought what would be the ultimate Challenge can it fit an Rog strix in there yes you know what that actually looks kind of cool it looks kind of cool well it wouldn't be cool but it looks kind of cool like just filled in with a graphics card like this I think if we had the White edition of the uh yeah do the White Edition with all white Parts white fan frames at least the ugly blue and red Parts down at the bottom so all you're left is this which wouldn't Clash but dude that actually looks pretty neat in there well remember we showed it didn't fit in the other case when we did the size review of this so there you go it's a middle Tower as they call it but it fits it now okay some things you need to think about while you're building here like I said your cables not a lot of room right here so you have to be smart with your cable management you do have grommets down here while they're pass-throughs no grommets there which is kind of unfortunate because you have them everywhere else you can do it up here but you can run your USB cables your USBC your front panel and everything up through here you could run your 24 pin and depending on your motherboard you might have to run USB 3 through here or something power supply cable can come right up through here only will it make it to the graphics card though if it were something like that ah you know the card fits but you know if you want to actually run this card in here because of how close it is to the side panel you're gonna have to end up using like the uh cable mod 90 degree adapters which by the way we have some on the way finally we can take a look at to see if they'll clear something like this based on what I've seen looks at the 90 degree adapter would clear this but you're not using the standard adapter and you're not using even a native plug to clear that it is far too close to the side panel so keep that in mind if you get a 90 degree adapter it should I say should it should work things to typically things you haven't had to think about until this generation of will my cable clear the side panel whatever overall I think the build quality is there even with all the side panels off like oh fine it's fine even with the side panel off like okay it's not very flexy at all you've got big rubber feet okay you got big feet with little rubber pads on the bottom there so it's not sliding all around it sits firm it doesn't wiggle and that's without any of the side panels on so there you go um other things to think about in terms of airflow your only intakes are these guys in the back right here there's nothing in the front this is kind of turned into like a standard design a lot of companies are doing it this way now solid panel in the front so you can see your components intake on the side here they put this mid fan and I would probably honestly run it back here if you want to know the truth because if I put it there and then I have a pastu fan with a graphics card well I guess that would work because it goes up through yeah this could assist with the blow through cooler but I think personally down here blow it into the graphics card which is going to help you have your exhaust here and your two intakes maybe you put at least an exhaust up here um airflow on these kinds of chassis is weird because it has to make this turn and then it's got heat wants to rise although it doesn't take much forced to overcome convection any airflow will overcome convection it's a very weak Force the mid plate I don't feel like this is an area we should rely on too much for airflow I think these two in this exhaust will handle this component this compartment just fine you put this up here because of the reverse fan it's going to have to go like that which is where the cage is showing and then the RGB is squished between the panel and the fan if you're going to water cool this not a whole lot of room here for radiator Reservoir and top uh with in terms of fittings but you could go with a 240 rad here with the pump res combo mounted to that radiator and then you could put the 360 if you put one on the top fittings on this side and then you'd be able to water cool this case pretty easily so once again like I said montech a brand that we had never heard of until we went to Micro Center that day and found a pretty significant value this one costs a bit more like I said 93 US dollars at the time I'm making this video I'll put a link down below that you guys can check out to see what current pricing is because it's always all over the place especially as raw materials prices change specifically like steel the prices usually will fluctuate but anyway I like this blue it looks neat it's also available in I believe this is white and black and I think there's even a gray color we have all three of them this is the only one we unboxed I kind of want to do a white and blue build now like white Parts in this coat in this sort of they call it Morocco blue to me it looks more Cobalt don't trust me especially when I can't see blue properly alright guys thanks for watching sound off down below if this is a case you'd spend 93 bucks on I'm curious that's where you guys would spend your money seems like a pretty good value build quality is there Cable Management might be a little bit on the tricky side because you don't have a lot of room right here so you got to really plan and utilize the basement structure as much as possible I would load this thing up with nvmes and remove the cage entirely that way you get all of that space in the bottom to hide wires and you know controllers or whatever else that you have going on down there alright guys thanks for watching thank you to montek for sending us this case to take a look at today like I said all the information you need to check it out for yourself is down in the description below as always guys we'll see in the next one\n"