KINGWIN KT-436B-WM - KINGWIN KT-436B-WM

CONCLUSION
Incase you couldn't tell by reading the rest of the review I am very impressed with the Kingwin KT-436B-WM. Especially for its rather modest price of $159.00. I was afraid the case would not have as much space as my old Chieftec/Antec/Coolermaster/Directron case as it is a few inches shorter. This was not a concern. The Kingwin is easily as wide as the other cases on the market as is significantly deeper. It even relieved the difficulty many people have trying to remove the hard drive rack when a longer video card is installed like the GeForce4 Ti4600. And have I mentioned this is a tool-less case? I know there are others on the market that are also tool-less but unfortunately there are not enough in my mind. It always pisses me off when I open my case to make a small change and then realize another component is any the way and have to get up and hunt down a screwdriver.

Another concern I had was the that blue tinted panels might look cheesy or cheap, they don't. Everything about this case is quality. Putting a window in a case yourself is not one of the easier things you could do in life. You of course would need the proper tools, a window kit, a place would you could actually do the cutting, the time, and of course you better hope you don't cut to big or scratch the case. The Kingwin takes care of this for you. It obviously has more than enough windows. I also greatly appreciated the protective plastic inside the case to protect my delicate little fingers and hands. For those of us that are constantly upgrading, change cooling, or swaps it out entire system you really appreciate how nice it is to have this protection

The only things I see that might need to be improved on with this case is the durability of the acrylic front face plate and to add a side fan over the AGP slot. I did not have a problem with the face plate but a couple of other websites have mentioned that they tightened down the thumbscrews on the front to far and have cracked it. And I would like to see a side fan simply just to help cool my overclocked video card.

Overall, I would strongly recommend the case and in fact give it the coveted OCA Recommended Award.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks to Plain Label PC for providing this case for review. If you are thinking of picking it up (which you should) then swing by their website and order one for a very fair price.