Cougar QBX vs Lian Li A4-H2O

You'd be mistaken though for thinking that these are aluminum panels, as they do have that brushed texture, but surprisingly they are just plastic, an...

99. The A4 HTO features four removable aluminium panels, the one on the top is 2mm thick, while the ones on the side and the front are 1.5mm thick. Ta...

It is not a fingerprint magnet unlike aluminum cases. Review: Cougar really stuck by their product and actually boxed the case in a full color black box with images of the QBX. This is unlike their normal boxing methods of plain cardboard and an outlined drawing of the case. The overall feel of the case is solid

Lian Li A4 H2O gets my seal of approval 👍. Good build quality, easy to work with, not too big, good pricing (with pcie 4.0 cable included), no major flaws unlike all other ITX cases that i have used so far.

5" (2 in the bracket and 1 behind the odd drive), the other one is a bit more tricky due t o cable management but still ok, you can add easily a 3.5" drive, so you are covered for drives (plus M2 on your board maybe!), in term of heat, I have a full graphic card shapphire rx580 and an i7-9700k processor, I have switch the original 92mm fan from the case with a noctua, gives me PWM and silence, you can fit a cpu cooler up to 145, and so giving up the side fan, I have a 125mm cpu cooler so I could technically fit a slim fan on the side, so far I didn't add any other fan, even with overclock the temps are ok, ~35 idling and ~70 full load. (you can easily add 2 120mm slim at the bottom, 1 120mm at the top, one 80mm in the front). Probably the best case if you are in need for good ventilation

And the side panels are not a significant barrier, as you can see. On the GPU side, it is also very well controlled because of the exhaust. So no heat...

So starting with the size, it's not the most compact ITX case out there, just be aware of that, plus it's not that thin either, it is quite long becau...

So did that, got this in the front door, everything fits, although, you know, as you can also see at the bottom of the case here, I will have some lit...