Nemesis Elite Case
Just got this thing in today and since there's no real reviews out there yet...
It looks like a pretty solid mid-tower case. Frame is 1 mm aluminum with supports and pretty sturdy. Toolless entry and toolless drive installation, it has 3 120mm blue led fans, one in the lower front, one in the side window, and one in the middle back. The window fan is a Maritech, the back fan has no label, seems fairly cheap. Window fan has an inner guard, the rear fan doesn't. I can't get to the front fan yet, it's pretty well buried in there. Power supply is made by Orion, don't know anything about them.
It has:
4 Exposed 5.25 bays
2 exposed 3.5 bays
2 hidden 3.5 bays
The front cover seems to be all plastic, tough thick plastic too. The door is pretty nice quality, and connects to the front panel with some pretty nice metal hinges and a remarkably good magnetic closer. The whole thing is very well painted, mine's a nice smooth black with a thicker layer of paint than I'm accustomed to seeing on cases. The top has a nice LCD fan control unit, according to the book (yes, this case comes with manuals... shocker) it comes with sensors for keeping track of CPU temp, HDD temp, and case temp. It also has a clock with programmable alarm and temperature alarm. The fan controller housing also has ports for:
2 USB 2.0
1 Headphone jack
1 Microphone jack
1 1394 firewire jack
The inside doesn't seem to have any sharp edges. It doesn't have a removable motherboard plate either but there's plenty of room to work in. Instead, it has metal rises and they're all labeled. Here's some good news and some bad, the good first. It has a decent plastic bin to store all the brackets and drive rails inside the computer. The bad news is that the bin is located directly behind the front fan pretty much completely obstructing the front intake. It's an amazing example of Polish engineering at its finest. It'll have to be taken out and I don't see another place to mount it inside the case out of the way.
Anyway, it's not a crap case, that's for sure. If you're thinking about buying it, I'll tell you it's fairly solid as cases go. You'll just have to decide if you want to shell out $120 for a computer case. Replacing the power supply and fans are given with just about any case, but you'll have some temporary spares to stick in a drawer if your replacements ever go out. I really can't point at anything in this case and say it's a bad design other than the storage bin location.
Overall, the case is on par with a Superlanboy in terms of construction quality, maybe even better.
I'd give the whole thing about 7.5/10.
It's definately worth more than your typical $50-60 cheeseball "get you by" case. I'm going to have to see the fan control in action to see if it makes it near the $120 mark the case sells for though. I know the fan controller doesn't control speeds on the CPU fan, appears to only be the three 120mm fans.
Just got this thing in today and since there's no real reviews out there yet...
It looks like a pretty solid mid-tower case. Frame is 1 mm aluminum with supports and pretty sturdy. Toolless entry and toolless drive installation, it has 3 120mm blue led fans, one in the lower front, one in the side window, and one in the middle back. The window fan is a Maritech, the back fan has no label, seems fairly cheap. Window fan has an inner guard, the rear fan doesn't. I can't get to the front fan yet, it's pretty well buried in there. Power supply is made by Orion, don't know anything about them.
It has:
4 Exposed 5.25 bays
2 exposed 3.5 bays
2 hidden 3.5 bays
The front cover seems to be all plastic, tough thick plastic too. The door is pretty nice quality, and connects to the front panel with some pretty nice metal hinges and a remarkably good magnetic closer. The whole thing is very well painted, mine's a nice smooth black with a thicker layer of paint than I'm accustomed to seeing on cases. The top has a nice LCD fan control unit, according to the book (yes, this case comes with manuals... shocker) it comes with sensors for keeping track of CPU temp, HDD temp, and case temp. It also has a clock with programmable alarm and temperature alarm. The fan controller housing also has ports for:
2 USB 2.0
1 Headphone jack
1 Microphone jack
1 1394 firewire jack
The inside doesn't seem to have any sharp edges. It doesn't have a removable motherboard plate either but there's plenty of room to work in. Instead, it has metal rises and they're all labeled. Here's some good news and some bad, the good first. It has a decent plastic bin to store all the brackets and drive rails inside the computer. The bad news is that the bin is located directly behind the front fan pretty much completely obstructing the front intake. It's an amazing example of Polish engineering at its finest. It'll have to be taken out and I don't see another place to mount it inside the case out of the way.
Anyway, it's not a crap case, that's for sure. If you're thinking about buying it, I'll tell you it's fairly solid as cases go. You'll just have to decide if you want to shell out $120 for a computer case. Replacing the power supply and fans are given with just about any case, but you'll have some temporary spares to stick in a drawer if your replacements ever go out. I really can't point at anything in this case and say it's a bad design other than the storage bin location.
Overall, the case is on par with a Superlanboy in terms of construction quality, maybe even better.
I'd give the whole thing about 7.5/10.
It's definately worth more than your typical $50-60 cheeseball "get you by" case. I'm going to have to see the fan control in action to see if it makes it near the $120 mark the case sells for though. I know the fan controller doesn't control speeds on the CPU fan, appears to only be the three 120mm fans.
