Power Up Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with 450-Watt Power Supply

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As I opened the box, the smell told me the powwer supply was burned out. I called and they were willing to swap oout the unit after i returned the old one They did give me the phone number of the case manufacturer. That call was EXCELLENT. They Shippped a replacement power supply and label to return the old one. They wanted a credit card number as a guarantee of return. The manufacturers rep was excellent. Cheers to Manufacturer, jeers to Tiger Direct.

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I've seen some absolute GARBAGE cases before so I was a little uneasy and half expected this thing to be falling apart when I received it. I was surprised by the quality of this case. The side is a little tricky to completely lock in place but you just can't beat the price of this case, especially with 450 watt PSU.

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I bought this case as a part of a barebones kit. It is a pretty good case for under 50 dollars. I like the side vent which ends up being just above the cpu fan. Pretty sure you could also affix an 80mm fan in this vent as well just do away with the plastic port it comes with. It says it comes with a 180mm fan port. This is a bit misleading. The regular case fan location can take an 80mm fan or 92mm it looks like. I bought a 120mm fan so I was really perturbed when I did not see this fan port. You have to look closely. There is a location just behind the two and a half inch bays where you can affix a 120mm fan as an intake fan. If you do that with an 80mm exhaust fan in the back and an 80mm exhaust fan on the side things should stay super cool in any application.

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Good case; could be smaller. Hard drive hard to screw in. Front LED wires well labeled. Both kinds of power plug are good feature.

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Considering I recently purchased a $90 Antec case and it arrived with a faulty power cable I can't complain about this case for half the price. Everything worked. Has a tidy little harness for the power and front panel. As far as the construction goes, well it is what it is. A cheap aluminum case. Sharp edges. If I have any complaint its that there are no screws or screw holes to secure PCI cards or other peripheral devices in the back panel. The only thing holding my video card in is the PCI slot. That could be a stress problem as time goes on. I modified it with a dremel tool and self tapping screw.

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A bit disapointed by the skinpy side panels that need to be massaged back into place. The case flex a little so try not to move a lot. The front panel is bolted on.

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Not as flimsy as thought it was gonna be. plenty of room nice usb and audio connections in front. Overall not bad for the price, would buy another if need be, fan is not to loud.

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2nd (of two) cases purchased had to disassemble because cables were routed wrong to reach furthest points on Asus motherboard.

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I bought this as part of a barebones bundle. The price for the bundle was hard to beat (it included the CPU and EVGA 9500 graphics card). I had no trouble assembling the PC. The case is nothing fancy, but easy to work on and looks solid. Only complaints are the power supply fan is very loud for my HTPC application, but I solved that by installing the PC in the adjacent room and running a few cables through the wall. Bottom line, good case for a server or desktop, not so great for HTPC applications.

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I have built 5 PCs with this chasis now, and have not been disapointed. The power supply is a little lacking, but that is to be expected from a combo at this price.

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Bought as part of a 'barebones' kit for a 3 year old child who loves it (cute). No problems. Using 2.6 Mhz Quad CPU, 4 Mb of 800 Mhz RAM, Vista H.P. No problems.

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I bought this item about a month ago. I use this case for my business. Everything on case works good even power supply the only thing is the case is a little flimsy Case does have plenty of room inside over all good case for the money

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Got this bundle, installed the new components we purchased with it, and turned it on! And the power supply's 5v rail to the multi card reader turned to liquid. Almost burned up the entire system. But it was taken care of promptly and couldn't be happier with the new system.

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Good case and power supply for the money. Power supply delivers a consistant voltage as required. It has enough connector for a value system. We were moving a copmuter and dropped the case it cracked and broke a piece off. BUT EVERTHING STILL WORKED SO GOOD CASE. It was like a car it crunched but the passengers are ok.

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I really liked this case, clean simple lines, everything went together well, I like the front panel access for USB ports. The fan is a little noisy on the power supply, but its fine otherwise.

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I have built three computers with this case and power supply and have had very good luck with them I would like to see a little stronger power supply in them. I like to overclock and sometimes these let the 12 volt line drop a bit. This is not a problem unless stressed too much and I have never had one of them fail.

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I have build 2 machines with this case. One of them recently, another one about a year ago. The funny thing about this case is that when you work with it you hate yourself (or client) for being cheap but when the job is done you are certainly glad you have saved few bucks. Outside look of this case is actually not that bad. Plastic parts are OK. Metal ones are horrible. I have spend 20 minutes trying to install motherboards IO shield. I have managed by bending it but could not make it look decent. Front panel is hard to remove (6 screws are holding it) to install a 120 mm case fan (which is not included). Also there are no air inlets on the front panel which makes it hard to cool hard drives. Power supply unit looks and feels cheap but has not failed so far. On the other hand I don't have any performance video cards on board or any other high wattage equipment.

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Great for the price. Work well for my ASUS Motherboard. use 80mm fan on the back, but you can put a 120mm in the front of the case.

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came with all the hardware necessary to secure you components. great price given you also get the power supply. would buy again! only draw back is that it didn't have a sheet that tells you what each piece of hardware is for (screws and stuff). not a problem but some one who's not computer building savvy would get frustrated.

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Well as stated above I've bought 2. The first one arrived fine but the power source died about a week later for no reason. It was a budget system with a 2.4 AMD x2 pushing an ATI 3450 and the PCI express slot on the MSI mobo doesn't seem to line up right. I bought another one for a friend. The case arrived with a slight dent, since it wasn't for me I didn't care. I still had the problem with PCI-e slot not lining up. This time with a Biostar board

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I bought this case to rebuild an old dell pc that had a bad mother board. the case seems cheap but it doeas the job I need and I like that its light weight.No big thrills with this case just a good price and does its job holding everything in place.Good deal for the price.

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Great value for price. Tight fit on an XFX motherboard, but got it in there. Looks good.

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This board was part of a barebone kit. I replaced the bundled motherboard with a Biostar TForce 945P Motherboard but it wouldn't start so I replaced the power supply with a 550 watt one that seemed to do the trick. Now, ten months later the blue power indicator light has gone out. The USB connectors still work.

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I have bought 2 of these cases in the past and havent had any problems with either one. Have had one for nearly 2 years now and the power supply is still going strong, and the second one is about a year old now. Neither case came damaged, and though they are a tad flimsy, it isnt going to be used as a stepping stool=). I would recommend this case to anyone. I wanted to wait to give an accurate review on these. Great performance and great value. Thanks again for another winner!

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When I build budget systems, this is usually the case I use. It has all the interior room I need, 2 external 3.5" bays and room for 120mm case fan which keeps things quiet. Case is light but less wobbly than some other low end cases. The only thing I don't like is the screws to hold on the face pannel instead of tabs but hey... for the price you get a case and a free power supply.