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hey guys welcome back to another review today we're taking a look at the budget case from courser this is part of the Carbide series the 200 are now I'm sure many people appreciate the fact that coarser is fine thinking about the price conscious consumers and is able to contribute to the vastly saturated market of budget cases so let's see if the $60 case is in any way unique or it's just a standard black box that we are so used to with a courser logo now this price tag is the lowest we've seen so far from coarser so the risk of filing compromises and cutting corners is definitely there but does it manage to be functional well let's find out so starting with the front panel the connections are kept to a minimum with two USB 3 ports your audio jacks and your power and reset buttons then we have three five and a quarter inch drive base and blow that unfortunately a closed front intake pulling air from each side through the venting strips that have a built in dust mesh now courser includes a front 120mm intake although I would like to see mounting options for a 140 mm fan just to have a little more cooling potential and an additional 120mm fan can be installed right below to cool the drive cage however as you can see there isn't much opening for the airflow now the front panel is easily removable and we have this brushed aluminum look on the plastic it's a very convenient way to add style to the chassis without paying premium and moving to the top we have dual fan support for 120 and 140 mm fans with pre-installed rubber grommets which is always a bonus unfortunately no dust filters here but we can't have it all at this price point the side panel can house dual fans as well with this vertical alignment for cooling your GPU and your CPU and looks like the route grommets are also included here great to see these on such a value case and we have a difficult scene in the back 120 exhaust IO area 7 expansion starts with venting holes and the bottom mount the power supply with a removable dust filter the case is also slightly elevated with rubber feet this will allow your power supply to breathe and prevent the chassis from wobbling and make it a little more stable all right so far so good no major issues yet let's dive inside and see how it handles with our usual gaming assembly so right off the bat we have three tools mountings for your optical drives GPU and air flow opening an SSD cage and the 3.5 inch drive cage below are two lists and extremely easy to work with the SSD cage can house four drives they simply slide in place and are held in by clips on each side and you can also secure them by screws so they're not going anywhere and this would actually work really well for a raid configuration one thing though are the cables facing inside that will add the bit to the cable clutter and the drive cage below also uses the same concept of just slide in place and the drives are secured by clips and screws as well so continuing with the internals it looks very similar to every other coarser case simply because it works like the cutouts around the motherboard for routing your cables yes they are not grommeted but they still serves the same function a rear exhaust fan is included and you can mount an additional intake for the bottom unfortunately no dust filter here however clearance will depend on the length of your power supply so in this case anything up to 160 millimeters would allow for either 140 or a 120mm fan and in the back we have some cable tie notches and the area below the motherboard is indented to give you a little more room for cables and notice a slightly longer cut out for you eight pin connector which would come in useful for wiring any top fans now one thing that impressed me was the consideration to offset the mounting holes for the top 120mm fans from the rear exhaust fan now this would allow for a rear or top radiators to be installed without interfering with the fan of course if you are mounting a dual rat at the top you most likely will run into clearance issues with your motherboard and it would be nice to be able to have that option despite its value status the courser is standing strong behind their tools commitment towards assembly the 200 R comes with the motherboard standoffs already pre-installed so your workflow is completely hassle-free and the only time you'll need the screwdriver is to secure your motherboard in place so how does it handle longer graphics cards no problem with just under 17 inches of clearance for the top slot and anything up to 12 inches with the your SSDs connected and all wired up there's really nothing to complain about with regards to cable management and they cleaned up pretty well for under five minutes spent on wiring so to wrap it up the new car by 200 are offers great value for a mid tower we have easy to ask workflow excellent drive gauge support for long graphics cards and direct airflow into the motherboard area however while it is not intended for water cooling having such an option is a bonus and the little extra clearance at the top wouldn't hurt and having fully meshed front panel would allow for better airflow but as I've said already do 200 are serves as an excellent entry-level budget gaming chassis with great functionality that offers pretty much everything we want and deserves a damn good value award so I hope you guys enjoyed the review and we'll see you in the next one