Enermax Ostrog GT ATX Mid Tower Computer Case with Acrylic See-Thru Side Panel ECA3280A-BR Black/Red

Good quality w lots of interior room. This is the upper scale of a Mid sized case if you ask me, but that allows for work room & good air flow. Cable management is really nice & the back upper opening others complained about has been made larger. There are very few sharp edges & the hdd fasteners work well enough. I did remove 1 to use screws to hold a 5.25 to 3.5" plastic adapter. I also removed the middle hdd rack and installed the bottom base mounted 2.5" SSD bracket in its place - this worked better for me. I have 2 2.5" SSD's mounted here & 3 large capacity 7200rpm HHD's mounted in the lower rack. The 2 front 140mm fans are quiet and move a good amount of air when at full speed. The rear 120mm fan is a joke & I replaced w a more cfm fan. I also installed a top exh fan - that gives me 2 in & 2 out for good air circulation. Plus I have gigantic CPU, PSU & GPU fans - thats 7 fans in all! My AsRock MOBO has enough fan headers that all fans are connected to it & can be controlled thru BIOS software. I did remove all of the vent screens as they block air flow. The biggest issue is that the MOBO stand offs are too short to allow rear I/O usb ports to be properly used. Luckily I have tons in stock and found enough taller ones to raise my MOBO for better clearance. I still had to notch & bend both my USB 2 & USB 3 I/O areas so they could be used. Wish I could vote 4.5 as all was perfect except for back fan & MOBO fasteners.

This case seems pretty well made. I like the removable middle harddrive cage. The ssd cage is just ok, i'd like to see some tool-less instead of playing with tiny screws. I used the metal thumb screws from the ssd cage(mounted from underneath the case) on the back of the case since they are nicer than the plastic ones that are included back there... who is going to notice the ones on the bottom of the unit? They should have had them switched around in the first place. I wish the bottom hdd cage was removable. There is plenty of room for routing wires through the back, which is a huge plus. The rear fan seems pretty decent, but is not branded. The dust filters are pretty much garbage. There are cutouts for better snap-in filters to go under the power supply and on the bottom of the unit, but instead its just sloppy mesh. The front panel also has the cheap mesh filters. I wish enermax and other case sellers would sell nicer filters at extra cost, i don't mind that the case is inexpensive because they cut corners on the filters. I just wish I could bring the filters up to meet the higher quality of the other parts. Enermax also uses these filters on their $200+ enermax fulmo gt full tower, and its really a weak point. Especially because they are hard to clean once the unit has been setup. You have to lift the pc up or tip it over, with this case you could do that, with the fulmo, its ridiculous. The top of the case has a lot of different options for mounting fans and possibly radiators, but whether there is enough depth for both, i don't think so. Its likely the fans will need to be mounted outside the case, which means disassembling the fan connectors to get the wires through the upper grill and down into the case. Nice case though, i really like the style and strong frame.

For a relatively inexpensive mid-tower case, this has everything you could possibly ask for. I have used Cooler Master cases and Lian Li, but like this one the best. It is solidly built throughout and the plastic side panel is particularly attractive to show off the "goodies" you've used on your build. There are more than ample openings in the side that makes cable management a snap. As someone pointed out (either here or at another site) that the cut out for the 8 pin mother board power cable is placed incorrectly and sits directly under the mobo. I hope Enermax realizes this and corrects the error. However, there IS a small slot about 4" away that WILL allow you to route the cable from the power supply to the mobo. The tool-less design of the drive trays works great as does the front slots for the DVD player/burner and card reader I use. I did use some screws on the right side to give those things a bit more stability, however. The front panel with the red LED fans is really attractive as well as the overall design of the case. It's sort of industrial looking and looks like it means business! Kudos to Amazon for packing this case inside a separate cardboard box as added protection during shipment. It arrived in perfect condition and ready to go! If you're in the market for a case, look no further than this one. I highly recommend it and will be using the same type case for future builds.********************************EDIT******************************************This WAS my favorite case until the Fractal Design R4 came into my life. The Enermax houses an AMD build from a few years back while the newer Fractal case is the basis for a very recent Intel i5 build.

On the outside, this case is very nice looking, especially with the LED's turned on. On the inside though, it is a different story. Any amount of light coming from the inside of the case makes the window appear blurry or scratched from some angles, and the holes for cable management are not well layed out. The holes seem unnecessarily large, and the CPU power cable hole isn't even accessable once the motherboard is installed. None of these are huge problems, but just little things that annoyed me when I got the case. I do like, however, all of the space behind for cable management, and there are plenty of spots to mount fans in this case. Overall, this is a decent case, and I would probably reccomend it to a friend because for under $100 I'm not sure there is a better case. I'm very happy with my final resultUPDATE 3/18/14 - This case is working great! Perfect for a first build and looks amazing. I have noticed one thing which is that the power LED is an extremely bright blue light, and when the computer is asleep, the light flashes fairly quickly, and could be distracting or could prevent you from falling asleep.

This IS that case you've been looking for.PLENTY of space inside to work with. I got a GTX 980 card in there, which is a big one, and there's plenty of room to spare.The hard drive fans will probably keep your drives alive longer.My favorite aspect is that front panel, man. 4 USB ports, 2 3.0 and 2 2.0. Even handier than it sounds. Once you got everything installed in the back you'll never have to fumble around back there again. Fantastic.I like the power button, the big reset button and the light button. The lights just look kinda cool but nothing amazing.The look of the case.... I don't like the red... and I probably wouldn't like the blue, I prefer a solid black case. But it looks nicer than the cases I had before.I got mine for $67, if you're shopping for a tower case and it's on Amazon for that much... get it!I'm very happy with mine.

Fantastic case... looks amazing, lots of room for cards, drives and parts. It's very easy to work inside of this computer. The many fans inside keep everything very cool but also has the proper setup for liquid cooling if so adventurous.Do yourself a favor if you're getting this great case however and go on eBay and get 2 red computer LED light strips for a few bucks and put them on the inside of the windowed door above and below the window. When you get it all hooked up, it lights the case up nicely so you can see everything inside! This really should have been a feature of the case, it looks so much better when you can see inside the window. Overall I'm very pleased with this case and highly recommend it!rAy

Case is big enough for a decent sized motherboard. Plenty of air space to cool down your system. Some fans are included which was nice for the price point. All hook ups are included and there's even a bunch of extra supplies in case you need. I bought an open box and it came in pretty good condition. The size was kicked in but I was able to fix that. The door was a bit dented but still operational. If you purchase this as a non-open box I'm sure those issues won't be there. The build quality was rather good for this, so I'm glad I spent $100 to get it !

I recently bought this case got in a week not in two days. But this PC case looks awesome. I changed all my PC components from my old case to this case it only took an hour to change. Anyways the Ostrog case has tons of room for a large video card, lots of places for fans. And it keeps it nice a cool

This case was awesome to work with for my first build. Cable management is a cake walk, it comes with two LED 140MM Fans in the front and one 120MM in the back and there is plenty of room to add more. I added 2 in the top and one on the side of the bottom HHD racking .The holes were there but not big enough so I drilled them. You could aso add one between the PSU and the HHD rack but my PSU was too long for that.The only thing that I don't like about this case is the fact that we can't remove the bottom HHD rack, making the bottom front fan less effective.But that's only a minor issue since almost everyone is going to have at least 1 HHD.PS : If you don't like that Blue Power light that doesn't fit at all, you can simply unplug the two PWR LED connectors.