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Rosewill Legacy V4 mATX

WELP I went ahead and bought this anyway, essentially half off on Amazon with a gift card I had. I will let you guys know how it is, if anyone cares.
 
I will see if I can put together a more substantial "review" with some photos, but my first impressions are good. I think Rosewill can sell this thing for so cheap because they hired someone's cousin to take promotional photos. It looks GREAT in person, much better than on Newegg's website. It feels very solid when it's all assembled, but when you've got the side panel off it feels like it'd be easy to bend the aluminum. The placement of the components is...interesting, but of course it's always going to be kind of a puzzle fitting everything together in such a small space.

There are some negatives that you'd expect from buying a $60 instead of $120 case. Some of the edges can feel sharp, and the side panel takes four screws (not thumbscrews to remove), but would improving these areas be worth an additional $60? No way.

I think the biggest factor is how you're going to be using the case. I'm using it as an HTPC, so it's not extremely powerful and it's not going to get very warm. But you're going to struggle to do much overclocking. There are no front fans and three 80mm fan slots in the back that seem to have just beed added after the fact to wherever there was free space. The PSU placement would prevent you from using any really large coolers. It's probably not designed with overclocking in mind.

E: It's all built and sitting on my floor now and it looks like the monolith from 2001, I love it.
 
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