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hey everybody this is Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and today we were looking at Rose Wells our five black gaming case it is a mid tower ATX sized case it comes with a few fans and some pretty cool features this case is an $80 range case so that means it is meant for those builds that are sort of probably in the 550 to $700 range you could there are a lot of choices in this range so you could also go look at the Zalman z11 plus cooler masters storm Scout NZXT XS and several other cases even dozens of other cases actually but this does make my short list of the top five or six cases in this price range and there are a few reasons why number one is because if you want a discreet looking case that fits in an office environment this is the case that you'd want to go with the storm Scout is a little bit more on the gaming side the z11 plus is definitely on the game inside because it looks like a transformer so if you want something discreet this is one to look at if that is something that immediately makes you not want a case then you may want to turn away now but it does have a good feature set it ships with three pre-installed fans and a fan controller it has two front 120 millimeters that are fairly quiet one rear 120 millimeter fan and it also has room for according to Rose well up to ten total fans that would be six that can fit in a 120 or 140 millimeter slot and four that can fit in a 120 millimeter only slot there's also room for a 240 millimeter radiator according to Rose well what they told us so that could fit the the h100 up at the top actually of the case right above the CPU and that area is very easy to access you can just pull out the compartment and stick the radiator in there it is also equipped with a a dust filter in that same area so you just flip it out like this and then put the dust filter in or take it out rather and clean it on the note of dust filters this case comes with four of them total it has two dust filters on the bottom one below the PSU directly and one below an additional fan bay it has one in the front that is easily flipped out just like the top one is you just pull the pull of latch and it comes right out and you can clean it under water and let it dry and then of course the one on the top that I've already talked about where the radiator can go and same thing there you just pull it out and clean it the case also comes with the fan controller that I mentioned it is equipped with up to three three pin fan connectors right now and I do have what complaint about that though that I felt the cable was a little bit short so I had trouble getting it behind the case behind the motherboard rather and connecting it to that rear fan so I ended up plugging in the rear fan directly into the motherboard and then routing and hiding that fan controller is wiring behind the the drive bays and connecting it to the front two fans so that was a bit of a problem for me because I don't want cables going cutting straight across the middle of my case it looks ugly and sloppy so I did not connect the rear fan to it but you could connect another one of the front fans or the top fan to it if you have a lot of cable or an extender this case also has a top mounted i/o panel so you won't be kicking it with your knees when you walk by it has one USB 3.0 port it does have the 20 pen USB 3 header so I can plug directly into boards that support it unfortunately it is only one port which I thought was kind of weird because normally you'll see two with that but I guess that's the decision they decided to make so it is one USB three two USB two one eSATA and audio out and a microphone in port it has two buttons of course the reset and power on switch the fan controller all of that is on the top mounted panel the inside of the case is where it tries to shine though because it does have I believe for cable pass-throughs with rubber grommets on them so there are four pastures for your cables to be managed and routed nicely behind the case unfortunately the four pin or eight pin 12-volt connector that plugs in near the CPU normally in the top left is not able to go through the back and out the top because the top just isn't there's a hole up there but it's not big enough for for a cable so there's just no way you're gonna do that you'll have to run it probably to the left up underneath the video cards and then plug it in there the back side of the case does have enough room to fit a fat 24 pin connector and still close it took a little bit of trickery to get it to close but it does close so you can fit some fat cable back back there I'm not sure the exact depth of that between the motherboard mounting wall and the side panel for the case but it is enough for your cabling and there are the standoffs where you can tie twist ties or zip ties with cables to keep them all in order so there is also exists in the back and the front so you can tie things down and keep them nicely organized so they're not in total chaos in the back there's also the tool list design for the entire case so your expansion bays are using thumb thumb screws and the drives the optical drives are mounted using also screws they're different from the Thor version two that we reviewed which was more of a push design a push-pull design for the optical drives that I complained about for breaking easily but this one instead of that push design has a typical screw turning design so you just turn it unfortunately I did think that the hard drive bays were pretty flimsy they weren't flimsy to the point where it'd be a deal-breaker for me on the case like if I'm considering this or the z11 plus the hard drive bays would not be what make me change my mind ultimately but they are flimsy and they feel pretty cheap which I just as general philosophy didn't like but they do get their job done I was worried that faster rpm drives like 10,000 to 15,000 p.m. would cause vibration but normally if you have that kind of speed drive you're not gonna be using this kind of case in the same region with the of the external days I had trouble with cable management because normally in cases I'm used to there being some kind of pass through or chiseled out area between the actual bays and the wall for the motherboard mounting wall but unfortunately in this case there is not one that means you have to if you're gonna pass a cable through the back of the case you have to either do it through the drive bays the bottom drive bays for hard drives or through the grommets you can't do any cool tricks with hiding cables by by like stuffing the optical cable between the power connector between the mounting wall and the bays itself but again nothing game-changing and beyond that we're really just looking at the main features for this case being reasonable cable management reasonable dust filtration actually very good dust filtration and a completely to list design in the eighty dollar range you can actually take out all of the dust filters without dismantling the case something that many cases cannot do that's all there really is to say about the case in terms of overall features if I had to give you other options I would definitely say consider these almond z11 plus the cooler master storm Scout NZXT is LexA S and of course whatever antic has out there in this range I think it's probably the 900 though it may be a bit more expensive so definitely look into those options if you have any questions at all about this case or about this build or anything else we do at gamer Texas Donette please feel free to push the comment below the full article review is in the description below so check that out if you'd like the full review please like this video if you liked it comment if you have any questions at all and subscribe if you'd like to see more of this see you guys next time you