COUGAR MX330 Mid Tower Case with Full Acrylic Transparent Window

I hope you find this a helpful review in your computer case selection process. I do not have any association with the sales or manufacture of this case. I purchased this case for a gaming computer I was building for my grandsons.Really nice case made with nice smooth edges most everywhere in all important locations and especially where any wiring passed through the case. Good value, was not expecting something this nice.Power supply mounts in the bottom of the case. SSD drives mount on the back side of the motherboard, mounting plate, room for two. HDD drives mount in the bottom area of the case near the front, room for another two drives. I used one SSD and one HDD drive in my design. I was a bit concerned about heat, but after assembling the computer, both my SSD and HDD drives ran cool to the touch, not warm. The case also has room for a DVD player in the front face of the case, at the very top. You can't see it in the Amazon sales photos, its well hidden if your not going to use the space. A clear plastic left side cover would have been nicer if your interested in seeing into the case. That was not important to me nor did I add any extra light to my motherboard. There is a removable magnet perimeter air filter screen on the top of the case and a fixed filter screen on the bottom of the case beneath the power supply mounting area. The front of the case is well ventilated with minimal restrictions. It's single supplied, I think 120mm, fan is quite and along with my power supply's fan seemed to be very adequate cooling. I did not utilize any of its other fan mounting locations.

The media could not be loaded. I have minimal drives inside so with my modular power supply and a bit of velcro to mount the fan controller to the back of the ssd drive section I didn't have trouble with the cables inside the left/back panel, however I can see that it could become a serious crunch in there. Otherwise there's plenty of space for everything, my old 3.5" HDD is currently installed in the rack provided (there are 2 slide-out trays) beside the power supply in the bottom compartment. The case came equipped with one exhaust fan mounted in the rear. I'm using it as intake from the top for the CPU and it didn't add any significant noise. I opted for the upHere RGB 3-pack 120mm fans with controller and it's utterly gorgeous, especially behind the dark tinted acrylic! I was able to remove the case badge and replace it with my MSI badge attached to a bit of refrigerator magnet and it looks awesome. Didn't have trouble plugging the case controls into the motherboard. I hadn't bought a new case in 20 years and I am very pleased with this one!CONS: The power button on top does get stuck sometimes. You have to push directly down on it, any wiggle and it'll get hung up on the return. Not a real problem, Cougar might want to just think about making a deeper housing for the power button or find a button with less travel. Also, mounting the fans in the front section of the case was a headache. I had to use stick-on silicone bumpers to prevent the fans from sitting on metal bumps and potentially causing fan buzz.

I wasn't expecting much considering the low cost of this case, but I was very pleasantly surprised! I put in a Micro-ATX board with a GTX1070 Founders Edition, and 4x case fans - absolutely no issues with space. Plenty of room for drive expansion, too. The cable management isn't stellar, but not bad at all considering the price point here. You'll only get 1 case fan, but there's room for at least 6 total, so cooling shouldn't be a problem. The clean design and decent cable management options means good airflow, and the mesh design at the front seems open enough to allow lots of intake.The PSU basement is fairly cramped, so if you have a modular PSU, you'll probably want to plug in your cables before mounting the PSU in place. My only other complaint are the plastic thumb screws. They work okay and they're easily replaced, they just feel a bit cheap and fragile compared to a full-metal thumb-screw. Buy a cheap bag of them along with this case. There's also a bit of a gap between the acrylic window and the case, which is likely to cause some airflow issues in high airflow cases, but it's nothing too noticeable.All in all, I'm very impressed with how far my money went with this case. Good quality, nice design, and the price is absolutely right. Well done, Cougar!!

This case is very lightweight. WAY lighter than my Cougar Panzer-S model. Mainly, because it has an acrylic side panel. I actually prefer the acrylic for my secondary PC; I won't have to worry about shattering it every time I open the case. The metal is fairly thin, which is to be expected on a case at this price point, but no sharp edges.If you're using either of the two 3.5" HDD bays in the lower section, you're going have trouble threading in the thumb screws that hold the trays in place. Just use one of the regular #6 screws that are provided to get the threads started and then they'll go right in. I think that was something missed from the factory.Everything else went in smoothly on my build. The most difficult task was figuring out how to cleanly route the cables but there's plenty of openings on this case to allow you to snake the power, USB, etc. in / out / around the way of everything.The only additional part I can think of that would supplement this case is an male / female (extension) cable for the 4-pin +12V ATX power for the motherboard. If you're PSU doesn't have a very long reach on that connector, you may end up running it across the motherboard to reach from the lower bay. I always like to bring it up and over the top of the board and you won't be able to do that with this case unless you have the slack for it.