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It's well engineered and the tooling and finish are very high quality. Everything snicks together with great precision. I would not build a high end gaming ma
by topspin 8y ago
It's well engineered and the tooling and finish are very high quality. Everything snicks together with great precision.
I would not build a high end gaming machine with it. Motherboard tray cable routing cutouts are not well positioned if you have a large, high feature motherboard. I knew this but as I used an mATX board I didn't care. Also, airflow is limited by the solid front panel as is always the case with 'quite' designs.
The supplied fans are excellent but only one front case fan is supplied; I knew this and obtained a second "be quiet!" 140mm fan for my build.
I have mixed feelings about the gauge of steel. Typically quiet focused cases of the sort I've been using for many years now rely in part on heavy steel. The steel in this case is comparatively thin; similar to what you get with OEM machines from Dell or HP. On one hand I miss the rigidity of prior cases, on the other I've been surprised at how happy I am with the reduction in weight.
The size is perfect. It's a little larger in every dimension than a traditional mid tower making assembly and changes easier.
This is a bit of a boutique product; Amazon doesn't have this exact model and it took a while for shipment through newegg; it shipped from the manufacturers US warehouse and took extra time.
I would buy it again.
I did a double take when I saw the Arm workstation but I suppose it's not really surprising. The market is full of windowed, LED riddled gaming cases on one hand and low end 'value' stuff on the other. There are few quality 'grown up' looking cases available. I had 'workstation' in mind when I went hunting for a case and I imagine that's what Ampere was thinking as well; we made thoughtful choices and ended up in the same place.