Ultra M923 Full Tower ATX Case

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Well it weighs a little on the heavy side. It came with three 120mm fans which was pretty nice so the cooling in it was pretty nice. Runs pretty quiet, ohh yea it is nice cause once u register it you get a lifetime warranty through ultra on it. Check the panel there is a battery behind the screen it might have a pull tab on it, once u take that off of it the thing will never beep again after you set it.

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Overall, good product. Will fit everything I'll ever need. Huge-literally, make room on your desk. Had to play w a small drive to fit in the slot and be even w the face plates. Display is good idea, bad execution. Alarm works, so make sure you set it 1st thing, esp cause (like other reviewers have said) the display only works part of the time and you might not get another chance. I don't care about the display and alarm, so no big deal that it doesn't work for me. Button placement is odd, and you'll need to be careful using buttons. Instructions are only OK. I got this as part of a bundle, so it was essentially free due to savings. Definitely a good value on that end.

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the 7 internal drive bays are fantastic. There are only 6 plastic rail sets made for HDDs, but you can use the floppy disc rail set for a 7th HDD. Case is very open and roomy. I'm worried about the LCD Display. Several times my computer has booted and the display has been blank. Currently working Ok, but who knows how long that will last. The instructions for setting up the temperature gauges are poor. How do you connect the gauges to your CPU heatsink, video card and HDD? Poor Instructions.

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I have had this tower for almost a year. I like the blue dash board. In fact, when a fan died I replaced all of them with blue LED fans. Nice glow around it. Nothing bad to say about this product.

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The case is overall good. It has a lot of space inside and the airflow is good. The fans are quiet and the HDD bays work very well. However, in my case, the LCD panel broke within hours from being installed. It no longer displays what needs to be displayed. Also, setting the fans through the case's panel prevents software like E-leet to read the real fan speed so I am not using it. Since the whole LCD broke, the clock is not used either. So the case is good, but, at least for me, the panel was useless.

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OK, it has great ventilation, quiet fans. 10 full-size drive spaces are great but I do not know where the other 8 3.5inch ones are, either. LCD display is gimmicky, not much function, I'd prefer an actual drive activity LED. To control fan speeds you must forgo mobo monitoring. case speaker cord is too short for most mobos connector location. BIG PROBLEM: plugging USB device is likely to result in system reset or power-off: awful button placement!!!!!

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The product descriptions for this case lie. Cant state it any simpler than that. Ad states 18 drive slots. Id like to see anyone put 18 drives in this case at the same time. You have OPTIONS for different configurations. You can have 10 externals and no internals or you can have 7 internals and 3 externals only by using their space saving cages. They take the max internal and max external and magically add them together. People like this also work on the national budget in congress. I gave it a 3 for value and quality because it's a decent case for the price. Unfortunately I can't give it a 0 for performance and features so I had to give it a 1 for dishonesty.

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The case is alright... lots of space and allows easy installation of PC components. The fans are really really quiet! It's true that the beeping alarm is annoying due to false readings. It starts beeping as soon as the PC is turned on! But these alarms can be (and you will have to) adjusted. The clock never retains the correct time after the PC is shut off.

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I got this case in an attempt to find the cheapest case of its form factor. Everything fit nicely, it has great features (WHEN THEY WORK!) It has temperature monitors for CPU, VGA, HDD but the MOST ANNOYING THING EVER... You turn the computer on and the alarms will beep SUPER LOUD saying CPU IS OVER HEATING... but, you just turned the thing on. They are evidently false alarms becuase the alarms go off after a little while. Because of this alarm thing beeping I hate this case. If that could be fixed I would totally love this case. One other thing, the LCD Screen has a blue backlight that doesn't seem like you can turn it off. Hope you like blue!

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This case looks really nice and sleek with 3 fans and a trendy blue LCD screen on the front. However, half the time the screen displays improperly and the other half the alarms beep despite everything working as it should. I used this for my first computer build and I was worried about all the assembly. In the end, this turned out to be the most annoying part of it all. Find another case.

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They word their ad to make it sound like the case is capable of housing 18 drives - I don't like that. It is not. It can house 10 drives - period. For the same money you can do better. The quality is mediocre and lcd display flaky or non-functional at best. I found a case from a different manufacturer that holds 15 drives and another 17. Their ads do not try to manipulate you into thinking you are getting more than what you actually are.

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Heavy metal, be sure to wear a back support belt.

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This is the easiest case to work in I have ever used. So much so that this is the 3rd case I have purchased. One for me. One for my son. And finally for a friend of mine. I would recomend this to anyone! We all love it!

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I had to get two of these and neither of the lcd's worked. The front panel on the first didn't work (usb, audio etc...). Complete waste of time, money and a frustrating experience all around.

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The front audio ports work fine for me, just make sure you hook up all the front panel cables to where they're supposed to go. I've added one 9800GTX and there's lots of room for another if I want one. The PSU on the bottom is great because you can store the spare power cords without them dangling all over. Only bad part is that the LCD screen has malfunctioned twice, with alarms telling me that something has overheated, even though I had just turned the thing on.

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Used for my first ever computer build, and couldn't be happier. For the prev user: The front audio ports DO work. Check your mobo connections. The temp alarms are set to 45C to mine and don't reset..maybe your battery is dead? The black button on the back is a Reset button, which, i admit, i've had to use more than I'd like. The hard drive image does work, check the connection. When there's activity, it animates. Overall, great size, easy to add/remove components. Couldn't be happier :-)

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I had trouble with incessant beeping as well. It seems to have stopped after hitting the reset button a few times. I also had to redrill the mobo mount as my asus m4a78t-e did not quite fit, the predrilled holes just wouldn't line up. I also don't like the fact that the default temp is in Celcius and it seemed to not remember that I changed it after shutting it off. There is a lot of room, plenty of drive bays, and it is nice looking.

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I wanted to like this case. Great ideas, poor execution. 1. The front audio ports don't work. 2. The temperature alarm point for the CPU resets to 20C, so the unit alarms until I go in and reset the alarm point. 3. The panel on which the motherboard mounts will not extract from the case as it should because the frame for mounting the harddrives is in the way. How can no one notice this? 4. When I first got it the alarm would beep constantly when I turned the unit on. I pushed on the black button which is on the back of the control panel and eventually this seems to have stopped but I have no idea what I did. 5. There is no harddrive activity light - or if there is, it's on all the time. 6. Documentation is terrible. For example, if there is a harddrive activity light, why doesn't the documentation say so? On the display is an icon which could represent a harddrive and also a series of lines which flash. What do these mean? I don't know.

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Tons of room in this case, airflow is awesome, looks really slick, definitely worth the money. lcd screen works very nice though sensors could be a tiny bit more accurate.

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I bought this case to build a windows home server. This beast holds 8 hard drives, perfect for a server. I had no problem getting all of my hard drives and cd roms in there.

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I bought this less than a month ago and ended up selling it locally to buy a HAF 932. Don't get me wrong, it works great for a mid range system. I just needed something with more side room and better airflow. The fans are not loud, but don't flow much air either. The phrase "cable management" was never brought up during the design process of this case. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a good looking case on the outside with a mid range system. If you are gaming or oc'ing your rig, look elsewhere.

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Mostly, this is a nice case. I like it because it has the PCI slots on top, making it a lot easier to reach. But, the LCD panel sucks. It failed after a few days of operation; that is why I rated the quality a 1. The fan speed control still works, but really is useless; I always use max speed anyway. The fans are very quiet; I can't hear them at all. Still another problem with the front panel: when I pull out the phono plug for my headphone the computer reboots sometimes !!!!!!!

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Great looking case and very roomy especially for the price. There are a few things that could use improving though: the metal plate on the back which the power supply attaches to looks like it could be reversible, which i was hoping since it looks like the case was designed for the power supply fan to blow down through the vent, but it isn't; the fan on the top sits a little too close to the motherboard, makes it difficult to access the pin headers for the front panel on my motherboard (EVGA nForce 790i Ultra SLI); I also don't like how the drives don't attach directly to the case (they're the slide in kind). those things aren't dealbreakers though for an overall great case. have not test the front panel since the tabs that attached it to the case were broken upon delivery. however, ultra customer service is the best. sent them an email the day i got it, the next day they were sending me a new one in the mail, no questions asked.

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I love this case so much room and it's so easy to hide extra power cords at the bottom of the case. However the lcd started acting up like it did for several other people here. After calling tech support for ultra they told me look at the back of the lcd screen (from in the case) you'll see a battery and a button beside it. Likely there is a white tab (not in the documentation for the case) remove this white piece of plastic. Hit the button beside the battery and turn on the computer everything should be working right now.

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Amazing Case I have a large motherboard that won't fit in normal cases and this one made it fit perfectly, with all the fans the system stays nice and cool. I wouldn't bother connecting any of the thermal sensor anywhere or the Hdd light connector sense the lcd screen will die after a few uses.