Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

First – REMEMBER the price point. You might be able to get a “better case”, but you cannot get a “better value”. Pro/Con below the assembly guidance. All directions below facing case w/ back panel away from you. *********************************************************************************** 1– Remove MoBo tray and then attach the SATA cables to the x-dock. (YOU WON'T add the MoBo tray back til later… just deal! I know, you just gotta get that beast of an X99 board you bought on the tray ... just hold on, it is worth the wait…) 2– Remove the rear left drive cage, install fans ‘down under’ if you want them there. 3– REMOVE the P/S cover. Cable up that modular P/S you bought, and pull the cables you will need through. There is ample space to the right o/t P/S and an anchor point for the Velcro/zip tie for the extra cables you wont need right away. 4– cable up the XDoc for sata power. Unfortunately, you will loose 2 o/t 3 connectors on a typical P/S. Perhaps use an extension maybe? 5 – route and secure the power cables for the 5.25” bay on the left. Likely won’t need it right away, but pull the power cable anyway. 6– route up the power for the back left drive cage, install your drives in the cage, then pull the power. At this point you will need to attach the SATA cables and be prepared to route them topside. Install the drive cage (you did put the back fans in, right???) 7– at this point you should have everything cabled and powered in the lower chamber. Ready for the mobo? Ready? Really? Nope, not yet – pull your power cables for the mobo (both) and the number of VGA cables you will have up the middle between the drive cages or on the right side. Unlikely they will fit on the left side. MUSH!!!!! 8 – install your nine (9) stand offs for that X99 board you bought and the 18 core Xeon you sprung for because you didn’t really need the rent money, add the memory, make sure all is snug in a bug as a rug (or something like that). BEFORE you drop in the tray… put that silver back panel card in, eh? Don’t want to forget that baby!!!! 9 – gently put the tray in, being careful not to dislodge your cabling efforts to date. Get the beverage of your choice, swig a bit, and hit the home stretch. 10 – cable up the fans, add in that pair of 1080’s, give ‘er a once over, and push that enormous black button on the left front outside … 11 - sit back and bask in the glow ... listen to the hum ... feel the breeze... Pro’s – SUPER easy to get to the mainboard. That ROCKS. Super, super easy to get to that little annoying spot where you plug in the front panel connectors. “narrower” that any case I’ve ever owned, “front to back”, which means I can put these on a 18” wire shelf (like the kind you see in restaurants). P/S is ‘under mobo area’ for cable routing and such. FASTEST ASSEMBLY ever for me to put this together w/ all the parts, CPU cooler, routing cables, etc. SUPER easy to find anchor points to dress it out, as well. Con’s – SUPER hard to get to the X Dock drive cage IF you have bolted the mainboard down. (easy to fix though!!!) P/S sticks out of the back. A Xeon 10 core w/ a Hyper D92 is much noisier than I expected. My other PC w/ a D92 is super quiet (then again … its not a Xeon 10 core… hmmm….) The rubber grommet screw things on the XDock drive cages snap out super easy.