I believe I'm going to remove the P120 that I have in rear exhaust spot and see what it does without it. ![]() I've got 3x Arctic Bionix P120 in front intake and the two Montech 120mm as top intake. I moved fans to inside of chassis to increase distance from mesh and to allow use of side vent strips on front panel. I did change the way they mount front fans. It will run 4.5GHz all cores for an hour drawing 140W~160W load without a hiccup. Especially with power limits turned up to prevent any throttling from i7-9700. For me, keeping same cpu temps as an open bench seems pretty awesome. I didn't pay any attention to gpu as I don't play any games so it never occurs to me to really check temps. Same hour long test repeated three times with same results. I run Linux and with GTKStressTest using Matrix:All methods with 8 workers it runs a max 76C with a 160W load according to powertop. I have the exact same thermals as I had with an open bench setup waiting for case to arrive. Yes, the holes for top fans need washers and removable expansion slots would have been nice to have, but airflow is ridiculous. For the Lite model anyway, it's an awesome performer for $52.00. I mean I've never heard of you before, but I still like you, you're on tom'sHardware.Įdit: Now that I've built in it, I don't know that there is a better choice at that price point. Simply never having heard a name before doesn't make for a piece of crap. Sometimes you have to give new things a try. A couple of them raved about it with one calling it his new favorite mATX case. There were just a few reviews on you tube and they all seemed to be good. Even this review didn't call it out as a bad case. The big new cooler was the reason for buying the new case. I also didn't buy one of several other better known brands because of cooler clearance, I had to have 160mm for new Frost Commander. Before I bought the Montech case I looked at everything I could find about it, I did my homework. The examples you've given are not the same brands, but, I would imagine that at some point nobody had heard of them either. I also only looked for the brands you had mentioned in your first post. I admit I didn't go shopping for best deals, I simply clicked on one website and did a quick search for a general idea. If you haven't heard of the brand, it's probably crap. G-unit1111 said:Fractal Design Focus G- $62.99Īny of those would be better choices. It’s not particularly refined, but it does the job for what it costs and offers a nice compact and reasonably good-looking Micro-ATX housing. Normally though, for a case of this quality, I’d say that $70 is a bit steep – and it would be if it wasn’t for the RGB – the non-RGB ‘LITE’ variant costs around $20 less and has two fewer fans, so I’d say it’s priced appropriately for what it is. So pick your board carefully if you want quiet operation at idle. Just keep in mind that more and more motherboards aren’t offering 3-pin fan speed control anymore, now that 4-pin PWM spinners are starting to become the norm. ![]() If you just need a Micro-ATX case for your system and want some RGB goodness on a budget, it’s certainly worth having a look at. It’s not a particularly great case – certainly not enthusiast-class, but it’s not a terrible case either, especially at this price. To sum up my experience with the Montech Air 100, I can say that it’s a case without major issues. That’s fine if that’s what you’re looking for, but if you’re the kind of person who frequently changes things in their build, you’d be better served with something from our Best PC Cases list, though that will mean spending a little more. Conclusionīut it is a single-serve case – a chassis you’ll use to build one system in and not look back. That’s alright if you only run the system an hour or two a day to game on, but if it’s your working machine, you may prefer a case with real air filters to prevent frequent system cleanup jobs. In that way, it’s similar to Phanteks’ designs with its ultrafine mesh that they say acts as a filter, but in reality, you’ll get more dust buildup in a chassis like this than one with a proper filter behind the front panel. That said, keep in mind that the front mesh, although fine, isn’t a dust filter. Removing the front mesh and top filter nets about a 3 degree performance improvement on both the GPU and CPU, but it’s really not a necessary step to take. Of course, as a chassis with this many fans and a meshed intake, performance is excellent.
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