be quiet! Pure Base 500DX ATX Mid Tower PC case | ARGB | 3 Pre-Installed Pure Wings 2 Fans | Tempered Glass Window | Black | BGW37

I just assembled a dream rig in this case. Noise levels and near silent operation were most important to me in this build, but so was a more compact mid-tower form factor to fit under my desk. I've used BeQuiet!, Phanteks, and Lian Li before for my custom work builds, and this one came down to a choice between the Phanteks P500A and this 500DX. I went with this for its size, noise levels, and thermals. I was worried about losing some of the premium features from the Phanteks, but I was pleasantly surprised. This looks great, is the right size, and is whisper quiet.Specs:* Gigabyte Aorus Pro x570* AMD 5600X* Noctua NH-D15S Chromax.black* MSI 3080* 5x Arctic P14 PWM fans* BeQuiet Straight Power 11 850wGreat:* Outstanding build quality, fit and finish.* Optimal use of space inside. Compact but efficient.* Excellent noise levels.* Excellent thermals.Needs Work:* Once the motherboard is in--and especially with a chunky air cooler like the Noctua NH-D15S--things get really cramped in there quickly. The CPU power socket and the system fan pins in the upper left corner of the board are almost impossible to reach in this case. Even better if there were an extra 10-20 mils of height along the top edge of the motherboard.* The BeQuiet logo cable cover to the right of the motherboard needs work. It's so close to the ATX board and the opening is so narrow, it makes it nearly impossible to route the thick main motherboard power cable. I ended up shooting it straight out in a really awkward way that cannot be great for the cable.* Installing fans with the motherboard installed was nearly impossible. Lots of swearing and the purchase of a stubby philips head screw driver later, and they are finally in. Even better if the case had removable fan mounts that could be slid in once the fans were attached to the frame.* I'm having trouble controlling and syncing the RGB on the front with two Phanteks NEON Digital RGB strips. All are plugged into the mobo, but I can't find software that can control them both. I don't care enough to find a solution, though. I settled on a soft blue glow on the case and matched the strips using the Gigabyte RGB app. Since I don't change these ever it wasn't a big deal.One word to the wise: I purchased 5 Arctic P14 fans thinking the non-PWM Silent Wings that were included in the case weren't controllable (based on a previous experience with the non-DX 500 case a few years ago) or up to the task. I was wrong. This wasn't necessary and is totally overkill. In fact, I made it worse, not better, with regard to sound. The included fans were perfectly silent and up to the job.

I had read that that the case would take a 360mm radiator (3x120mm fans), so I bought it because i wanted one of the smallest form factors that would still do that. I'm using an MSI 360R V2 CPU AIO.The first move was to take one of the three bequiet fans that comes preinstalled in the front to the forward top position. The other two fans are installed in top-aft, and aft.I tried mounting the fans and radiator on the same side of the case (both outside front), but the front panel would not quite go onto the case. It interfered with the fans, and made it so that the plate/pin connection for the front side LED could not be made due to the separation.It did not look like the fans would fit in pull mode on the inside of the case, but I eventually discovered that I could move hard drive cage forward (there are two positions for it).In order to move the hard drive cage to the front aft position, I had to pull the full size 1000W ATX PSU out, but the case makes it easy, because the case bracket that holds the it in has thumbs screws, as does the hard drive cage. The PSU was then squished back into the case, requiring near 90 degree bend radius on the PSU cables, but no big deal.Then I had to move the radiator fans to the inside of the case, so final configuration is radiator mounted on outside front, and radiator fans mounted in pull on inside front.That was really my only pain point. It is tight working in the case, but that is actually what I wanted.Pretty much every cable (except massive VGA power for 4070 Ti in my scenario) can easily be hidden behind the back panel. There are ample passthroughs in a all of the convenient locations to keep cables out of site in the air chamber.The see-though panel is an entire side of the case, and turned out to be super, heavy-duty, tempered glass, which was a surprised to me at how good of quality the window is.The PSU and hard drive cage are in a completely separate compartment at he bottom of the case. The PSU is accessible from the rear as mentioned above, and power cables are accessible via the back panel. It takes like 10 seconds to pull it with the thumb screws. The hard drive cage is accessible from the back panel.The case is a little bigger and heavier than I expected, but it needs to be for what I needed it to. In the end I was utterly surprised at the overall value for this case to be under $100.Pro-tip: if you want to sync the front panel LED lights to you ARGB 5v system, hold the LED button on the front of the case for 3 seconds. The manual is not the best at explaining that.