Please pay attention to the power supply unit's AC socket and its plug's orientation and confirm it corresponds to one of the formats defined in the pictures below. NB: would recommend a fan grille for the top left fan, as ATX and front header cables are mm away from the moving blades and were making me anxious. I take the trades to put NH-C14S to cool my 5GHz 8700K inside a tiny case, also since I don't need many storage drives so I can live with it. Since owning these I've purchased numerous cases including the rvz02b, caselabs bullet, caselabs nova x2m, fractal design nano s, bit fenix pandora, and so on and so forth. With a maximum of seven fans (from 80mm to 120mm) and compatibility with up to 240mm radiators for water cooling solutions, QBX's Pro-cooling design (including an independent power supply airflow) provides the best defence against overheating.

On one hand, the stringent PSU requirements, poor documentation, and unique design that can make fitting parts into place a challenge will test your patience. Only ever got to build into one of these and still dream of the day I can afford one for my own system. Nobody likes those situations in which you need to uninstall a game to be able to install another one.

And quiet, especially—this case is small enough to sit on a desk, and I don’t want to hear its CPU fan whirring flat-out to stay cool. Once I did that though, the card fits perfectly, and there was still room for two slim 120mmx15mm Noctua fans below the card at the bottom of the case. You’d need this space if you wanted to use a 240mm radiator, but a 120mm block would fit beside them just fine. For example, the top panel is removable, as the folded paper document states, but it's up to you to figure out how.

The spell of savings is broken once you touch the case and realize that what you thought was brushed aluminum is actually plastic. I think all of us wish we had better cable management in our PCs, it's something we can neve really be 100% satisfied with, keep at it though!Ninhalem - Friday, November 13, 2015 - link With a smaller PSU and custom sleeved cables, a competent water cooling modder could put a decent system together inside this case.

I have spoken to someone who said you can stuff a non-modular PSU into the case, I'm skeptical but thought i'd take up this challenge. You can actually force a slightly longer PSU like the ModXStream (which is 150mm deep) into the chassis, but it won't sit on the designated support lip, and it will prevent you from being able to install a discrete graphics card. PCPartPicker may receive compensation for purchases made at participating retailers linked on this site.Cougar has been launching some pretty incredible products recently, from their stunning range of gaming peripherals, which includes great keyboards and mice, as well as their chassis products. Although the Cougar QBX can take a full size ATX PSU, there is a catch – only PSUs up to 140 mm long will fit and they need to have their AC cable receptacle oriented in a particular way.

Fun fact, you can also fit an X99E-ITX board in the QBX with an Asetek based AIO cooling unit and have an absolute beast of a unit! At first, I thought I’d misplaced the motherboard riser screws that normally come with PC cases, so I grabbed some spares and screwed them in. Please provide your contact information and any other relevant details and a member of our team will contact you shortly. Installing the motherboard is the easiest part, though take our advice and plug in the front-panel case connectors and any other cabling (SATA, for instance) that would go into the right side of the board before dropping in a power supply. Its form factor is great, with great access to the hdd, and the slim loading optical drive was a nice touch.

com is a leading authority on technology, delivering lab-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services. The layout is smart for the most part, although the radiator mount and cable management are lacking in execution.