Compact, good housing, and good value, cooling and space and beautiful details and facilities

Compact, good housing, and good value, cooling and space and beautiful details and facilities

Aerocool PGS QS-200 Mini-Tower, Micro ATX (Accessories)

Customer Review

I found this case actually just happened. After reading the specification and looking at the pictures, I ventured a try and bought this case (Aerocool QS-200) for the workstation of my parents, who should be compact but also quiet.

As in my other reviews, I would like to again note form on which I believe, take, advantages and disadvantages, and even add to the one or the other info with.

Pro:
- Compact, yet plenty of room inside for good thoughtful floor plan; no unnecessary bells and whistles, which the housing is just as great as it is absolutely necessary.
- Good workmanship; the housing generally makes a valued and stable impression; nothing wobbles, nothing rattles
- Good facilities at the front with three USB2.0 and eSATA port, which is connected to a corresponding socket on the motherboard via a SATA cable for the rest internally
- Good and quiet cooling possible; so you have the chance, 120mm fan (go even smaller) to be mounted, depending on the model achieve a correspondingly better throughput at low speed and, in the case of the two front fans, still can to blow almost freely into the interior and so on a good supply of fresh air provide. Next match larger tower heatsink into the chassis. So could mount on an AMD motherboard a EKL Alpenfön large Clockner who has just fitted so still inside.
- Simple but good holding quick-release fasteners for drives
-. Ingenious hard drive installation, including decoupling + installation of two 3.5 inch or 3.5 inch or three 2,5Zoll and 2,5Zoll HDD possible
- The 3.5 inch hard drives can be personalized with the plug-in connections to the front just installed so which and what is possibly even necessary, if you want to build in a large Tower cooler
- Beautiful small but fine details: fold-out handle and at the same time stand (when erected housing) for the HDD rack; Headband for the rack, so you this, when lying on the side of housing (ie the position where you mounted usually all) is highly known "unfold" and hang it, for ease of installation / connection cable, meaningful and well-placed retaining clips for cable
- No sharp edges
- Anyone who wants can further two case fan mounted in the side wall, this then goes but possibly at the expense of the space for a tower heatsink
- Even longer graphics cards that would look over the mATX board addition, can be mounted
- Both side walls can be interchanged (I had both interchanged because I thought it would give me a better airflow and acoustic insulation)
- Reset button is well secured against unintentional press (this must press quite far down)
- Built-in dust filter for the front fan
- Sidewalls Perfect fit and easy to install (know another case where I was allowed more than annoy very bad about the fit and the associated poor installation of the side walls)
- Many screws this that are packaged to have sorted (not all thrown together)

Cons:
- By the rather unusual arrangement of the hard drives, it can happen that the distance of the connector to a single SATA power cable of the power supply is not enough, if you want to run multiple hard drives to the rack and you are forced to move one line each per disk although just several plug would find it
- Pad on the rear wall of the power supply is indeed apt and practical, but it is quite large failed in terms of depth, which there are problems with the assembly of certain power supplies may possibly or otherwise, the fan is a little obscured in circumstances
- Inner side wall where the motherboard is screwed, has no opening at the location of the CPU, which in one or the other alternative CPU cooler can be handy (I had this opening never needed, as I the cooler always without bucket MoBo affixes)
- The sheet metal of the side walls is kept a little thin, and I again see the price of housing and about then slightly away can see, moreover, since they are MMN still thick enough to disturb it too much
- Lt opinions and tests from the Internet, the pre-assembled chassis fan should not just be quiet;. I had not even tried, and they replaced the same as First against good and quiet case fan

Doubtful "cons" - to consider the following two points as a disadvantage I see more doubtful, since one of the advantages of the housing up, the compact dimensions, so maybe not unlimited space available, three times when plus value good on a undisturbed air circulation is placed. Accordingly, I bring them to the place isolated on:
- Limited number of drive bays (see amount under "Other information";
- It just fit in with Mainbaords Form Factor microATX / mATX / uATX

Other info:
- The I assembled system is very quiet, at the same time good values ​​at the temperatures. Even with Prime with maximum CPU load / temperatures remained all values ​​well below 50 ° C (read with the latest version of HW monitor and CPU core). For example, the peak value for the CPU cores was 43 ° C and 20 ° C outside temperature. The system is as follows: AMD Athlon II X3 445, ASRock M3A785GMH / 128M, 2 x WD Caviar Blue, Big Shuriken + Enermax Twister Cluster 120mm + Noctua NT-H1 thermal compound, 3x 120mm Enermax TBSilence throttled to about 620rpm (two front , one rear), Seasonic S12II-330, memory card reader, DVD burner and side walls of the housing just exchanged.
- Sample, I had a EKL GroßClockner mounted, which fit just so in the case in the above system into
- Housing has the following drive bays:
External: 2x 5.25 inches and 3.5 inches for example 1x opt. Drives, card readers or fan controllers
Internal: 2x 3.5 inch or 3x 2,5Zoll (Alternatively 1x 3.5 and 1x 2,5Zoll) for hard drives / SSDs
- The two hard drives to the intended rack so I could cabling that I do not have to disconnect if I want to show the rack
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Of course, everyone has different requirements for an enclosure.
I think and hope my opinion is enough detail before, so everyone can decide for themselves whether we can use this thing or not, whether the housing are the claims (only uATX, rather poor for SLI / CF systems suitable, compared limiting to other housings number of bays) enough or you prefer to another cross.
Should it meet its own requirements, I would recommend this case more than fully.
For the money, what this housing costs and for what it offers in the order, an absolutely amazing product that I would buy again at any time.

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