If you know you won't need to look at the installation manual and you know you aren't going to ever care about cool LED lighting effects, you may consider this a five star review. I suspect you'll love this case. Either way, details follow below.
The cable management here is excellent. I have so much going on inside my case and I can only see just a bit of a few cables disappearing into the back and bottom compartments where they can secretly be as ugly as they like. It's basically the Notre Dame bell tower for hunchback cables.
The case is well and practically designed. You won't be whipping out the screwdriver for minor upgrades and tweaks. I said "Huh. That's pretty smart." several times as I familiarized myself with the case layout.
However, the manual was terrible beyond words (but I'll try). It may have permanently traumatized me (and may have done even if I didn't have a deeply autistic reverence for effective communication).
A manual is something that you only have to create once. Then every single consumer of the products it covers benefit from that one-time effort. Why not invest more time making it make sense? Create diagrams, pictures, and text that would each be sufficient instruction on their own--and then you'll have a thing of beauty when they come together.
I was competent assembling PCs a decade ago, so I just needed to pick up a couple new concepts (DRGB, and water cooling, really).
The extent of the information about the DRGB "controller" was simply, "More D-RGB lighting products can be connected to the integrated D-RGB controller. Optionally, lighting can be connected and controlled via motherboard software." and two diagrams of what a cable looks like.
The truth is, the Digital-RGB Controller is not a controller at all when you plug it into your motherboard. It's at best a hub/splitter. It sends the exact same signal to all of the DRGB devices, so when you light the first LED it lights up the right side of one LED strip, the middle of another, and one part of all of the fans. It did not need to be designed this way. Long story short? You'll be buying a genuine DRGB controller and completely bypassing the integrated "controller" if you want to have any substantial control over your lighting. Mine's in the mail.
Hi David,
Thank you for your feedback. A manual is very vital for a building experience. We'll send this to our product team for updates for future manuals for our cases.
Product arrived sooner than the estimated date with no damage and all parts included
Excellent case with great airflow.