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this video is brought to you by mano price offering you high quality cables at everyday low prices all with a lifetime warranty monoprice also has adapters keyboards headphones and even gaming monitors click the link in the description for more information or visit monoprice comm excellent when it comes to building a pc on a budget let's say the 400 to $700 range I find there to be a very common theme that is that folks will go pick all their core components out CPU motherboard memory graphics card and then they'll be left with like $50 for a case and a power supply and if you watch my show you probably know that I never ever advocate skimping on the power supply what about the case you can actually get away without a case entirely if that's your thing but you'll find that most people actually do use cases they provide some protection they provide some airflow and they provide a nice aesthetic for your build overall but for today I'm going to be taking a look at this cooler master Silencio 350 - a case that promises to hit a nice mid range between those more expensive $8,200 cases and the entry-level bare-bones and hideous all grey bare metal cases that will cost you maybe 30 or 40 bucks the model number we're looking at is si l - 350 - M - k kn1 it's finished into midnight black and it's made of polymer plastic as well as steel the dimensions are 200 by 378 by 453 millimeters or 7.8 by 14.9 by 17 point 8 inches it weighs about 10 pounds or 10.3 total four point seven kilograms and it will support mini ITX as well as micro ATX motherboards bear in mind you can't fit full sized ATX in here it is a smaller case but again if you're building on a budget that might be a feature for you as these smaller size motherboards can often be less expensive for drive support you have a five and a quarter inch drive bay up at the top so you can fit an optical drive in there or perhaps a fan controller or an additional card reader you have three 3.5 inch phase-two by way of the cage at the bottom which you can remove completely via the screws if you don't need it you also have an additional 3.5 inch mount just below the optical drive bays and then you can fit for 2.5 inch drives in this case along with the three 3.5 inch drives they've cleverly hidden them throughout the case the front of the case I've kind of glossed over up to this but it does have a nice matte finish with the Coolermaster logo towards the bottom the door swings open from right to left and it's not reversible this could be an issue if you're right-handed user actually Jay pointed this out in his video of this since it's a smaller door I don't think it's going to be a huge issue but there is noise dampening foam on the inside so that's going to prevent a lot of the noise from within the case from escaping directly off the front which is the most common means of noise pollution with a typical ATX tower build at the top you have your exposed five and a quarter inch Bay another exposed 3.5 inch bay down below that and then a easily removable fan filter here for your to 120 front intake fans again one of these is already populated with a hundred and twenty millimeter fan and you have room to add a second one if possible you can also fit a 240 millimeter radiator up here however in a case of this price I would hesitate to say yeah sure go ahead and drop another hundred bucks on a 240 millimeter all-in-one solution I might consider spending more on the case maybe jump up to the cooler master Silencio three six fifty two and that might be a better option nevertheless it is there if you want to take advantage of it or upgrade it in the future you could also fit a hundred and twenty millimeter all-in-one liquid cooling solution on the rear exhaust not the top mind you there's not quite enough space up there but that would be a bit more viable option if you're looking to go for a liquid cooling solution in this case an additional hundred and twenty or one hundred and forty millimeter exhaust at the top of the case this one is also also filtered it is a plastic filter that you need to remove from the inside so it's not quite as easy to get at however it is filtered so that's something and it comes with a plastic magnetic panel that you can add on top of that if you don't plan to use this as an exhaust and again that will help help kill some of the noise that might be emanating from inside the case the i/o panel on the front has two USB 3.0 ports and that's a great reason to get a case like this in a newer cases to have support for the newer standard you also have a single USB 2.0 port and that USB 2.0 port also shares a data connection with the SD card reader again very nice to have in here it's USB 2.0 only but very convenient finally you have an audio i/o so mic and headphone jack located there as well above all of that you have a power and reset button with corresponding LEDs expansion slots at the back are four that's again pretty standard for a micro ATX chassis and then for cooling you have a couple hundred and twenty millimeter fans that are included and these are not any ordinary fans these are cooler masters extra flow 120 and the connectors are either molex or a three pin fan header you can plug straight into your motherboard and then use voltage control in order to reduce the RPMs if you want the power supply mount is down at the bottom it supports full sized ATX power supplies it has four rubber feet at the bottom for some noise dampening as well as a removable fan filter for the power supply intake you might also have noticed that the entire interior of this case is all painted black and this is something that you often don't get if you're looking at budget cases it's a nice touch by Coolermaster they do a really good job with their paint and it helps keep everything looking clean and much higher quality internally overall if I have a complaint about the interior it's going to be the cable management there's essentially no space behind the motherboard tray at all if you wanna route cables there there's a bit of a gap at the lower side of the case so you can get your cables over to your drive bays for example however additional cable management is pretty much non-existent so you're going to need to be bundling up your cables and keeping them inside the case which is a good reason possibly to get a modular power supply if you want to keep things a bit cleaner it's not the end of the world of course but it is a limitation and something you might want to consider aesthetically cooler master has done a great job here as well for the silencio 352 they have kind of a glossy band around the front of the case that's kind of a carryover from their end series that they have transitioned over to the silencio series and they've made them a bit more silenced optimized apart from that though it's got a nice finish it's got a matte finish on the door which is a pretty fingerprint resistant as well it's a good job on the looks of this case cooler master and then one more little aesthetic detail that I like is that cooler master has sleeved all of the internal cables with black cable sleeving which again keeps everything looking nice and clean so let's wrap up this little video with some conclusions shall we about the silencio 352 I really like this little case in the short time I spent with it I noticed several things that really stood out to me one would be the fit and finish overall Coolermaster always does a great job with that and coming at at a slightly more budget level I was happy to see that this case all comes together very nicely the paint job is excellent Coolermaster also does a fantastic job with that and this is another thing that we are seeing trickle down a little bit more but not always on the mid or lower end cases I also like the drive support in this case not only do you have three 3.5 inch mounts but you also have four additional 2.5 inch mounts and they're in different places you don't use up your 2.5 inch mounts by installing a 3.5 inch drive so you can actually fit seven drives in this case over all at the same time other nice features are the card reader which is very nice to have the fact that all of the fan intakes are filtered which I almost demand on any case that I'm actually going to build a system in the fact that there's noise dampening included is another thing that's great at this price point on the con side I do have to complain about the complete lack of cable management behind the motherboard tray that's just something I'm a little used to granted that's something you can get around but then the other thing is just something that's again pretty common on cases at this price point the steel is still thinner gauge and although Coolermaster has added these bowed out sections in the side panels you can still tell there's a bit of flex there but once everything's together it stays together pretty nicely and it's nice and rigid but that is all for 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