What do you think about this case? its AWESOME! ICUTE!

ICute is famous in asia and i think in aus. They make good cases for cheap prices. Look at this case im considering:
http://icute.com.tw/english/Articl [...] eID=322%20
ICute S901-4GA-BB
It has all the things of a performance case.:
Open mesh front design
12cm intake fan front
12cm fan on side panel + 12cm duct
12cm rear exhaust

AWESOME! and in hong kong it goes for around USD$38.5 no joke!!

That case is basically the same design as the Aerocool ExtremEngine 3T with a different front design. Interiors, fan placement, bezel as well as the fan hole pattern in the back are all identical.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6811196021

edit: The one with the 25cm fan on the side, that is.

Most chassis manufacturers have that kind of designs for their chassis, and i personally dont like 'iCute'. Sounds abit ***? =x

I was contemplating picking up one of ICute's cases quite similar to the one you linked a few months ago, but opted to venture into the SFF world instead.

I do have one ICute case from before though, which is housing my 3700+ 939 rig ... only case i've had to date (i'm too poor to buy expensive antec/lian li etc cases ^^) which gives sufficient enough airflow for a good overclock. Got my 3700+ running at 2.86GHz on an ASRock 939Dual Sata2 motherboard - benchmarks slightly higher than the FX57 ^^ not bad for a (at the time) £150 cpu and a £30 case

If anyone wants to try and find ICute cases in the UK, the most reliable place i've found to have a selection in stock is Maplin

Personally, I think they look pretty poor.

i dont mean to sound rude, however that is a gastly case, it could have a million 220mm fans, doesnt make it good. Icute whats that a new beenie baby?

to be frank this is just another mimic SECC (cheap) case copying the design of the alimium case guru's like coolermarster (in this case, no pun intended) or Lian Li

25mm fans are imensely over rated, all they do id blow air away form the CPU cooler, fisrtly the biggest CPU coolers are only 12mm, and secondly it complete disrupt the carefully thought out air path, mean the cold air entering the case is blown out before it gets to the GPU and even RAM modules.

sorry

Ugh.....







Oh and I'm from aus and thats all I can say.

I dunno, I guess i'm the kind of practical person. I feel its an excellent design, and has a phenomenal price for it. (38USD) I really would think it would be a different situation if it was badged with thermaltake or coolermaster. If those companies would make this exact same case, you guys might think different. Thermaltake or coolermaster had to start off somewhere too, as startup small companies. I feel "iCute" is no different. So what the brand name sucks? people in asia still don't get the idea, i see loads of screwed up product names before. It never made me change my mind on a good product. Every design aspect of this case makes sense to me. The power button and usb panel is out of the way of airflow, not restricting it. Its a simple and smart design to position it on the side of the front panel. This case seriously has a full front mesh that way, from top to bottom as if one complete permeable membrane! Anyway its just me, I love the design. I couldnt tell you much about the quality of build however, until i buy it.

I'm also getting the clear window without the 25cm fan. Its unnecessary, doesnt come with a window and messes up airflow inside the case. the window case also can come with fans mounted on the side so it can bring cool fresh air to the cpu and gpu. Only thing i dont like is theres no firewire access port on the front.

I'm getting the black one.

Does anyone here have one of these cases? I want to know about build quality? Does it feel cheap? I used to run a computer business and had some cases that I couldn't keep in, because they looked great, they always sold out. But to be honest I didn't like them, the build quality was horrid, I mean a case is a case, but these things could have been picked up with one finger (obviously sans PSU). And the 400W PSU's that came in them where very low quality. I would pirate a case every now and then and take the PSU out and use it for myself until the third one burned out on me and I ended up buying a Antec PSU. I loved the cases from a seller's standpoint as I could buy them for $24 and I would sell them for $60 and people would buy them as fast as they came in. Like others here, I feel the design of these, well at least the windowed ones, is quite good. Whether it is a thermaltake, coolermaster, or Lian Li rip off is of no concern to me if I can get a well designed, well built case for a cheap price. That is simply the nature of a democratic economy. If no one has one yet, chikit, when you get yours will you give us the real scoop on these? Maybe some pics too if you don't mind. Thanks.

Glad to hear you had good past experience. IF this case works out it will take about $80 off of how much I was planning on spending on a case for my new system. Good luck.

Man, i dunno about you guys, but this thread has marketing written all over it.