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everybody I'm welcome to polish hardware today I'm going to be doing a review of this Rose will line em micro-atx computer case I'm going to start off with an unboxing and sort of a first look at this case because as mentioned I have not dealt with this one at all assuming I first look at it and then as you can see I've got some parts over there and those are the parts I'm going to be using to do they build in this case but I'll follow up anything later today or tomorrow whenever I actually get to do with all these videos I'm working on today and I will give you guys two my personal thoughts in more of a review style and how I feel about working with this case now one thing about cases the Handy handles I can get tucked up inside and make a difficulty to take the box off the more you know okay so here's this case itself and this being a budget case of course packaging we have some basic styrofoam and pieces plus the covering of course there we go packaging and the plastic moved I can get it closer look at the case alright so up here on top Rose well line em user's manual we've got sort of a exploded view of the case some info about connectors all the included duct screws and whatnot now here's the case so at first look I would say this is a fairly standard micro ATX case two five and a quarter inch bays up in front also three and a half inch Bay - its USB 2 - USB 3 with an internal plug mic and headphone as well as a reset button and power button hard drive and power activity lights nice mesh up here at the front with a fan located right behind it it's a blue LED fan I'm actually be swapping that out that one out for the builds because um blue LED is kind of a matter of preference and and since I'm building this for kind of a small office that's not really the preference Hey look black thumbscrews it's a nice feature for a budget case actual thumb screws that are also painted black and just popping those up real quick I'm also getting ahead of myself parts of I'm out there at the back no Maurice Maurice here we also have a simple oh this is like a D sub pop out and some grommet pop outs but they're here in the middle still on those there's a 20 pin USB connector I know Ari we also have of course knock out here free input/output shield one two three four five expansion bays down there at the bottom and 120 millimeter exhausts let me get these off as well so I can show you guys the inside like so all right side panel ah there we go side panels fairly thin as say as far as the metal goes but again budget case so I can't be expecting too much the main thing is totally painted black looks like a pretty clean paint job as well which is nice and then they've sort of rolled it over in several places so that definitely gives it some more sturdiness to it and let me just do the read reinstallation the side panel so not too bad although a little side nap notches cot where they shoot it and everything so there you have it panel I also have mounting points inside panel 420 and guessing this is also 92 and 80 millimeter fan mounts so you can add some additional ventilation to the case if you want some more of that pointing directly in please look at the interior a hundred twenty in the back 120 in the front one in the front set clear one with the led here is some accessories so it looks like they've given you I see so these are PCI bracket covers this is one of those versions where the in order to install your covers in the PCI base here at the back these actually pop off entirely so only remove the ones you want to because once you pop them off you can't put them back on but if you do want to replace them we've got a couple PCI brackets right there so you can pop those into place also black we've got about five black twists or zip ties for cable management ooh I like this look a speaker I find so many cases these days and many of them don't come with speakers and motherboards don't always have a speaker mounted but I like keeping one of these around because if your motherboard is especially if it's a lower end motherboard it doesn't have like LEDs or anything like that plug in the speaker you can actually hear the postcodes and it can help with troubleshooting all right what else do we have these are kind of your standard assortment of screws for mounting to the motherboard also mounting expansion cards here's another cool feature look at that so this is actually plastic but it's a for tightening other board standoffs so you pop it on a motherboard stand up and you can tighten or untighten it because when you're installing your motherboard standoffs you should always tighten up as far down as you possibly can provided of course you don't strip them okay so there's your screws and whatnot let's see front panel okay now the front intake fan has two plugs looks like you got both the three pin yeah so the little splitter here some molex if you want to plug it in directly or you can do the three pin to your motherboard if you want some better control over the fan and you don't want it just running at full speed all the time other front panel connectors 20 pin USB 3.0 connector HD audio AC net AC 97 audio also these are fairly long so even if your connection points it down here and then the lower-left like way down there you can still have enough cable lengths to reach around to them without too much trouble also USB 2 of course for those USB 2.0 front panels that mostly does it for the interior oh and front panel connect 6 K as well those are kind of tucked back away hidden front panel connectors with the gorgeous multi colored cable that does always seem to have except in some cases let me slip around to the back this case is very light I will give it that easy to maneuver all right now so there is like a motherboard tray there's no space back here though so don't plan on you than any of this for cable management because there's really zero space at all but they do have a knockout here at the back for CPU aftermarket CPU heatsink fans so you can get at the mounting tools for that there's a bit of space right here so you can wrap cables along that direction if you want to let's see so there's kind of a see-through look of it the bottom of the case has some rubber feet yeah there's a rubberized so that will keep your whatever surface you have it on clean keep vibrations down a little bit front panel should pop off there we go front panel pops off without too much trouble so that's also handy because it does have this mesh up here at the front so that gets crowded with us you can simply pop that off and use some canned air and blow that out I'm going to let Maya do this I'm going to put it back on front panel back on some toolless locking mechanisms for 3.5 inch and five and a quarter inch base I was reading a review for this and they said that these can be a touch on the flimsy side but if you don't like him just remove them and not dome with the screws because those screw mounting points are still accessible there I don't know if you guys can see very well on the side here but you got another 3.5 inch Bay down there that is not the front-facing one the upmost 3.5 inch bays your front-facing one so you can use that with a card reader three 3.5 inch bays two five and a quarter inch bays and then also there's mounting options at the bottom down here which n admit I'm not in a percent sure of all right so this looks like five times I this looks like a three and a half inch yes okay so you can mount another drive there via the four drive mats on the bottom so you can put a 3.5 inch drive down there in the bottom and about SSDs I think this is an SSD mount as well surely I have an SSD sitting around here somewhere yes of course I do alright so as this D mount as well right there I don't know if you could do both did you do both I'm gonna try it I'll try it and let you guys know because it looks like you could probably drop an SSD or at least a narrow one like that right there and then put a hard drive on top of it well maybe not it maybe with some spacers I don't know I'll play around with that and let you guys know what happens but at least a couple more drive mounts on there at the bottom because as you guys can see there's not a whole lot of the drive mounting positions in here but again small case you're not going to be cramming it full of drives I doubt you're doing a reader a or anything too crazy like that in here but there's sort of a first look at I'm going to go ahead and do my my build and my assembling here and then I'll come back to you guys with some final thoughts so continuing the review here guys and I have the system all set up in there and this is kind of a look at the system set up full build in it this is with my permanent cable management I'm not intending ever to switch any of this stuff around because it took me a while to get everything wired in there but that really as far as negative aspects of this case that's really what it comes down to cable management there's not a whole lot of space and I know that's just sort of kind of goes hand-in-hand with being a smaller form factor micro ATX system and this is a fairly small micro ATX form form factor system but you don't have a whole lot of room so you definitely want to plan ahead and you definitely don't want to have to replace your power supply like I did because it was kind of a pain in the butt but apart from that as you can see everything fits plenty of airflow nice space here from the front fan to the CPU cooler to the rear fan I was able to fit optical drive up top SSD in the middle to terabyte drive down there at the bottom build came together quite nicely if I have any complaints again it's going to be about the cable management and also the corner up here actually between the 5 and a quarter-inch tray and the motherboard there's not a whole lot of space to work with there in fact I had to remove this stand off for the motherboard in order to feed cables up behind there and that's actually really handy place to be able to feed those cables gives you a little bit more cable management but you do I almost dropped it you do have to remove the motherboard in order to get those in or out of there which I actually had to do which led to a bit of a rebuild of this build but that wasn't the fault of the case that was the fault of the power supply um let me flip around here to the back you guys can take a look right there and as you can see no space here behind the motherboard tray but you do have some space up here so this is where you're going to pretty much be trying to route all your cables through bunch them all up and should at least give you some space to work with and so in conclusion I've decided to get a haircut and change my shirt actually that's because I ended up having to sort of redo my build in this if you guys are curious why you can check out my other video which is specifically on the build in this case but in this video I'm actually just reviewing the rows align em so I will limit my comments to that I will say I really enjoy this case for a budget case it did a really good job I like the painted interior I like the layout inside it gives you a decent amount of room to add some drives it's got a nice clear open space behind the fan and intake in the front so it's going to give you a real good airflow and actually directional airflow from the front of the case to the back comes included with two pretty decent hundred and twenty millimeter fans and this is an inexpensive case it's a budget case this were more expensive case I would definitely be much harder on it because you know there are always some stuff you get in those higher-end cases that you miss in cases like this but that said I would if I was rating this on a scale from one to ten which I guess maybe I'll start doing I think I would give it an 8 but I would definitely recommend it as a budget case for budget builders looking for a micro ATX form factor but that is going to wrap it up for this video once again this has been my review on the row we'll line him a micro-atx computer case I'm Paul and you've been watching Paul's hardware if you guys would like to see more tech videos you can check out my Pulsar where YouTube channel thanks for watching everyone and we'll see