Wesena, ITX4-v3-Black - 100% Aluminum, Mini HTPC chassis

I dropped a star off the rating due to the price. However, this is quite a nice little case. I'd give it 5 stars if it was under $75.00.Pros: Case is bigger than I expected. You're not cramming the motherboard into the case, and you have enough height to run an aftermarket cpu cooler. If you take out the hard drive bracket, you can get a 65 mm high cooler in easily. More heat dissipation, quieter operation.WAF approved. It's small enough to make the wife happy. Big enough that I don't feel I'm battling heat. It has a very clean looking front.Has a slot for a PCI-e card and enough room to run a fanless video card.Cons: Price. It's a bit pricey.The supplied hard drive bracket is just in the way. I don't see how a 3.5" hard drive could fit in the bracket, unless you get an extremely low profile fan. There's plenty of room out of the way to place a hard drive. However, there's no way to secure it. So, I'd only recommend a SSD drive with this case, and the bracket removed.Overall, I'm happy with the case. Things I didn't put a rating on are no USB, or audio ports in the front. This may be a con for some people. I have enough ports on the back of the motherboard. I wanted a clean looking case, so it's a worthy sacrifice. Especially since it makes the wife happy.There's a suppled 80mm fan. Cheap, with no speed control. Either you care, or you don't. Take it out, replace it, or be okay with it. It's well placed at least, and provides good exhaust for the CPU fan.Follow up review.First, the 80mm fan supplied with the case is very quiet. Even though it has no speed control, you can't hear it. It's not spinning very fast.The case is very solidly built. It's not made of thin sheet metal, anywhere.I easily fit a Zalman CNPS8900 aftermarket CPU cooler in the case. Coupled with an Intel G2030 the Zalman keeps the CPU at 26*C with no audible noise (It's seriously dead silent) after configuring the BIOS to adjust fan speeds. I see no reason you couldn't put an i7 processor in it.I bought this power brick. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00905I1TI/ref=oh_details_o04_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1&tag=incepin05-20 Unfortunately, that brick doesn't work with the supplied power plug the case comes with. The case uses a 2.5 mm power jack (laptop style). I had to build an adapter to make the power brick work. However, with my CPU the 192 watts is complete overkill. Just make sure the power brick you buy has a 2.5 mm jack on it.I maintain, this is a great case. I'm very happy with it after a few weeks of use. I've been looking for a case like this for some time.It's being used as an HTPC with Arch Linux and MythTV.

Nice looking case but there could be some updates to the design. The drive mounting plate could be significantly improved; luckily I was only using a single ssd ... but even then I would recommend a straight sata power connection. A 90 degree connector will fit but not very well.THINK ABOUT THE PSU BEFORE PURCHASE!!! This will not accept any variant of ATX power supply (obviously). This may not seem like a big deal until you think about the potential financial impact of a cheap power supply disrupting or frying your system (theoretically). I ended up using a hdplex 160W psu which I have been happy with thus far (though the case required modding). I shied away from pico variants due to some less than stellar reviews I found on 12V ripple and DC regulation. These reviews could be inordinately harsh... but then again I couldn't find a descent spec for any version of pico either.For reference, I’m using an intel processor (54W TDP) with a max system power draw of ~122W; idles ~30-40W at the wall and is always on.