Apevia X-CRUISER3-GN ATXr Mid Tower Gaming Case with 5 Fans, Large Geen Side Window, USB2.0/USB3.0/HD Audio Ports, Fan Speed Controller, Colored VU/Temp/Fan Speed Gauges, up to 7 x Cooling Fan Space - Green

What an awesome case! I read all the reviews here and was a little wary before buying it, but when I received the product I realized that I had nothing to worry about. It looks great and installation was very easy. The big fan and the cool LED's make it a great product. Also, the temperature and fan gauges are pretty cool. All in all a great case. I would definitely buy this again.Just to let you know, I bought this for full price and didn't receive any sort of a discount on it, so I'm not being paid to share my opinion.

A word of caution with this case: if you want to use a liquid cooling system, you have to mount the fans on the TOP of the case, and the holes don't exactly line up. So be prepared for something a little funky if you do liquid cooling. (Photo included for reference.)Otherwise, this case is amazing. Well ventilated and spacious for upgrades. The side panel is clear and the fan has red LEDs, and the front panel is all sensors for monitoring temperatures.

Pretty solid case for the price.Exterior:The exterior is clean cut, not too much excess other than the hinged front door. The front door/face-plate has some decently sized gauges for volume, temperature and fan speed. I have no idea where the volume sensor is located for the 'vu' gauge so I cannot test its reliability. The temperature gauge (with sensor internal) is fairly accurate compared to reading from mobo temp sensor. Also reads in °F and °C. Fan Speed gauge is linked to the internal fan speed controller, which is adjusted via a top wheel. All gauges are blue, with white/orange writing and an orange needle; pretty good contrast. In addition all gauges light up with the appropriate blue. Sleep/standby mode flashes the LEDs at a consistent pace. The side panel is where it gets pretty great. Metal/see-through plastic so that you can view inside of the case. The plastic portion is vented so that you can leave the 200mm standard fan in place or replace with 2-140/180mm fans. The top consists of a USB 3.0 port, 2 USB 2.0 ports, Audio/Mic ports, fan speed wheel, volume wheel and a HDD activity LED (red).Interior:5 fans as follows 4 120mm unlit fans and 1 200mm blue/blue-lit fan. The 120mm fans are located at the front/bottom, rear/exhaust, and two top/intake.The 200mm fan is located on the side panel. All fans are powered by 4-Pin Molex which have male and female ends for dasiy-chaining to the fan controller. Note: molex is molex, which means they are averagely difficult to connect without bending the pins, do be careful. There is 5 5.25 easy-remove bays; two come with a quick snap lock. There is 4 3.5 HDD slots plus 1 floor mount SSD spot. There's a bag on the inside of the case that has the 3.5 inch quick mount rails; there is no SSD adapters though. Also note: Floor mount SSDs are terrible, there is generally not enough room to connect the SATA/power cables and not have tension on the plug. The PUS mounts on the floor. There is a vent for the PSU to be mounted down. There is another vent on the floor for an additional fan. There is no dust guards/HEPA filters on any vent. There are some pass through points on the revers side of the case for cable management. Note: you might have an issue with HD audio's hookup, my mobo has it at the back end of the board and it barely connects,I mounted an EVGA fully modular PSU, Asus P9X79 Full-ATX board, Corsair H60 Closed Loop Water Cooler, and a GTX 680 Full-Length/Full-Height/Triple-Wide graphics card. I built this as a case swap build. I was building another station for work when I decided I would use the ThermalTake Mid-Tower (That these parts were sitting in) and I would get a larger ATX tower. The ThermalTake I had was pretty small I had to gerry-rig my H60 to fit in the 5.25 bays with some zip-ties. It was a quick and dirty fix that reduced the ability for proper air movement through the radiator. The Apevia case was larger than my Mid tower (even though it is still classified as a Mid /shrug) which allowed me to easily fit my P9X79 mobo. Luckly the top mounted fans are also able to fit 140mm fans, the stock 120mm ones gave me enough clearance for the heat-spreaders on the mobo. I removed the exhaust 120mm fan to install the H60 radiator with a inside fan. The most worrisome thing happened when I was putting in the gigantic GTX 680. It barely had clearance to get past the outer 5.25 cage. With a little twist and angling the 680 made it in no problem. This brings a note however: You most likely will not be able to get a full length card into the case if you use the lower 5.25 bays; I doubt you'll be able to get 2 in for a SLI or Crossfire build. Also note that a full-height card will sit pretty close to the 200mm panel fan, make sure your cable management accounts for this or the fan will get jammed. Lastly the passthroughs made PSU cable management a breezeAll in all this is a pretty decent case. I would recommend for a beginner builder/workshop builder. I would not recommend for a water-cooling system, 240/280mm close loop water cooling system build; a SLI/Crossfire build; or a extreme overclock build.

This case was chosen for my girlfriends new custom build I did recently. While many of the features are fantastic, and it has a cool look, there are some glaring quirks I am not a fan of. I have a strong background of 17 years building custom computer systems, and I was shocked that there were some things that in my view this case fell short on, and why I gave 3 stars:1: No grommets or protective barriers for cables. While there are no sharp edges out those large cutouts (motherboard side) and they are nicely rolled, to prevent ANY chaffing APEVIA CORP should have added those protective grommets in those openings. Especially for cases in this price range. ThermalTake, Lian Li, and Corsair offer these on their cases.2: Poor design engineering for hard drive mounting. You are given a series of plastic rails that use the existing mount holes on the hard drive (the sides), and you are relying ONLY on force to lock that drive in place. On other cases I have built computers with there is a tray that you seat the drive into, but you can also use the screws that come with the case to securely hold that hard drive into place. Why does this matter? Well if you have to move at some point, that hard drive could dislodge and flop around in the case literally destroying the motherboard and other vital components.3: No filters at all. Now this really confuses me why APEVIA's design engineers negated this. First look at where the power supply is mounted, on the bottom of the case. To which you are supposed to face the fan down where the vent holes on the case are. Again that's become the norm, but on any case in this price range I have built computers with, there is ALWAYS one removable and washable filter included. This case has NONE. Not ONE filter to keep dust to a minimal. Oh sure you can flip the power supply upside down, but the fan is designed to draw air into it and force it out the rear vents. That still does not explain the lack of any filters in this cases price range.4: MOLEX connectors for ALL 5 case fans. Really? Why? These connectors are bulky, and a pain to make the cable management look clean, and molex connector pins bend pretty easy when trying to daisy chain them altogether for the cleanest look.I would have designed this case with a built in hub inside where all the case fans plug into, and utilize the 3 or 4 pin fan connector and nix the molex ones. Plus with that built in hub you could have tied it in better with the temperature probe giving even better read outs (for those that choose ambient temp reading instead of CPU/heatsink readings.) Yes I know you can buy these from third parties, but the cost is pretty nominal to be an included item in this case.5. No thermal tape. Yea this one is not really that big of a deal, but more would have been nice if included. As mentioned in the last section in above, you have two options to monitor the heat inside. One is ambient (letting the probe freely float in the case) or using a small piece of thermal tape to attach it to one of the heat sink fins.By no means is the case all bad. It is a pretty awesome case, and my girlfriend does like it (and YES I got her the pink version and with the red LEDs it looks stellar). I won't discourage someone from buying this case. Every component I got for this case went in perfectly. Routing the cables was very effortless, and it does make a very clean appearance once they are tied up nicely). I do want buyers to know from a professional computer builder's standpoint there are quirks that might be a bit bothersome if they are either new to building, or seasoned builders.

I have purchased computer case from practical all manufacturers, and this case (for the value) is tops. Easy access with plenty of space. I am very happy with this case with ,for the first time, the color PINK.LOVE IT.