Antec P101 Silent Performance Series Mid-Tower PC Computer Case with Sound Dampening Panels, 4 X 120/140mm Cooling Fans Pre-Installed

The stand-out thing on this model is the dust filtering. I've bought several other brands, some of which force you to pay extra to buy an accessory dust filter kit, none of which are as fine in terms of particle filtering or fit as well or clean as easily as the front filter on this unit. The front dust filter is just about the finest without being incredibly restrictive of air-flow that one can get and in my dusty home that's pretty useful. It also simply slides out and can be rinsed or wiped down.The sound dampening is also pretty good, the isolation of hard drive noises from multiple spinning disk magnetic drives, including enterprise drives is also quite good, probably not as good as be-quiet with their specialized isolation caddies but it's a lot cheaper. The hard drive caddies themselves are plastic, not too impressively built, kind of cheap but they work, don't transfer vibrations that badly so I can't complain that much, certainly not for anything in the sub $150 range as far as cases go.Airflow is good, for a media server build the fact that the hard drives are located in the front directly in the path of airflow is great because I want to keep them above all else cool so they last longer. It is a rather simple design, most PC's I've built for gaming have either top and/or bottom fan mounting options but this is a simple straight-through.The default fans after nearly a year of constant use aren't suffering any whine or annoying noises, if they do fail I'll just replace them with some Noctuas. The front 3 fans at least aren't PWM (back one is), so you can't control them with software or the motherboard with temperature targets, instead they're controlled with a switch on top which has high, low, and off settings. On high they're noticeable in quiet scenes when a movie is playing on my nearby TV but on low they're not really noticeable and wouldn't bother most people trying to sleep in the same room as them as long as you're at least 8 feet away. Lack of PWM on default case fans on a budget case is to be expected, par for the course. If you want that buy aftermarket. Noise level could probably be lowered a bit from these or I could increase the air movement without raising noise level if I replaced them with Noctuas but once again the noise isn't annoying on low with no other sounds around. If I wanted to really run them at full speed all the time I'd definitely replace for the sake of my movie-watching experience them but a lot of people could probably tolerate even that.Cable-management is fine, there's plenty of room for routing things neatly and cleanly and building was not a struggle.One potential annoyance for some people may be the glowing white lights around the USB ports at the top of the case. I could certainly do without it but it's not so annoying that I've sought to try and disable it, suppose one could take nail polish or similar and carefully paint over the lights with it. The hard drive access light at the top blinks like crazy for a media server build like mine so I ended up covering it up with a piece of black electrical tape. Not sure why those types of lights still exist or can't at least be disabled in UEFI/BIOS.

I ended up getting the P7Neo.I'd say the overall the layout is decent. I was able to install a full-ATX motherboard in it, and it ends up right at the edge of the optical bay bracket. I don't have an optical drive installed currently, but it looks like you can get one in there with an ATX board installed. There are enough cutouts to make cable management fairly easy, and you can end up with a nice tidy case with clean airflow if you just take a little time getting things routed behind the backplane. There's enough room behind the backplane that you can actually run the cables back there without having to cram the rear hatch shut when finished, which is nice. It's not what I'd call roomy, but I've had cases in the past where you have to really mash the rear hatch to get it seal up right.The 3 included case fans don't exactly push a ton of air, but they stay very quiet, and I suspect the sound dampening side panels also help. Honestly, with my build, I can barely hear it under any workload (my GPU has an oversized cooler on it). A bit of heat can build up around the CPU area, and with no top opening or fan mounts, you may want to put something higher volume on the back to get that warm air out.The thickness of the materials are definitely on the lean side. I've never owned a case so light before. Once it's buttoned up, it's sturdy enough, so it's really not a concern for me. The light weight can maybe be a good thing when it comes to moving it around, but I would want something more durable-feeling if I regularly transported it. I did heed the other reviewers about removing the expansion slot dividers. The breakaway design is obviously a cost-save move, but you do want to be careful so you don't mangle things. I recommend popping out the ones you need to remove before you mount the motherboard, as the back-n-forth wiggle to break them loose could potentially scratch the motherboard. My GPU is heavy and takes up 3 slots, but it only mounts to 2 expansion slots, and the end result is sturdy enough, IMO.If I had one wish, it would be to have more than just 2 USB-A slots on the top front. If you keep your case on the floor under a desk, those rear ports can be hard to get to, so I'd prefer 3 or more, but oh well. In the end, it's a worthwhile case, and I'd buy it again. It does the job without all the windows and RGB madness. My CPU (130W) isn't one of these modern-day space heaters, so I'd be a little hesitant to use this with any of your hotter running CPUs or with motherboards that produce a lot of VRM heat. It's fine for a midrange build, though.