It looks cool but I can tell you it gets super dusty. A local store has it built and running. It looks like it gets super dusty in the front and very hard to clean.
Terrible design. Quote "Direct Airflow Path - Drive cages are moved up and out of the path of cool air from the front intake fans." Yeah, we wouldn't want cool air getting to the hard drives.
The top is perforated excessively, allowing dust to just fall right in when it's shut off, and noise to escape easily. Polycarbonate panels instead of tempered glass would have damped the noise a little and allowed much easier modification to add a fan for improved video card cooling. Instead of directed airflow where it's needed, they decided to go with the swiss cheese approach, massive amounts of perforated metal everywhere so as Lostpower mentioned, there's going to be dust everywhere.
It could have had a pleated washable filter panel in front then done away with all the top perforations except possibly a top fan in the rear. Heck even the rear case fan doesn't cover the whole perforated area so there's going to be heated exhaust air sucked back into the system above it. The front intake fans would have mitigated that if the rest of the case wasn't swiss cheese so there was positive pressure.
It does look fancy, just a shame that it seems to have been designed by an artist instead of an engineer. Given enough motivation you could resolve some of the things I mentioned and add a front filter but since the intake is on the sides of the front bezel, the reduction in filter panel area will significantly impede airflow, or have to be low density enough that it lets a lot more dust in.
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The top is perforated excessively, allowing dust to just fall right in when it's shut off, and noise to escape easily. Polycarbonate panels instead of tempered glass would have damped the noise a little and allowed much easier modification to add a fan for improved video card cooling. Instead of directed airflow where it's needed, they decided to go with the swiss cheese approach, massive amounts of perforated metal everywhere so as Lostpower mentioned, there's going to be dust everywhere.
It could have had a pleated washable filter panel in front then done away with all the top perforations except possibly a top fan in the rear. Heck even the rear case fan doesn't cover the whole perforated area so there's going to be heated exhaust air sucked back into the system above it. The front intake fans would have mitigated that if the rest of the case wasn't swiss cheese so there was positive pressure.
It does look fancy, just a shame that it seems to have been designed by an artist instead of an engineer. Given enough motivation you could resolve some of the things I mentioned and add a front filter but since the intake is on the sides of the front bezel, the reduction in filter panel area will significantly impede airflow, or have to be low density enough that it lets a lot more dust in.
Thank you!