be quiet! Pure Base 600 ATX Midi Tower PC Case| 2 Pre-Installed Pure Wings Fans | Black | BG021

big fan of be quiet! fans and now i have a sweet looking pc case, Pure Base 600. *Airflow is great because fans are powered from the top front Switch (positions are Low-Med-High) *this pc case met all my needs: 1) the cd/dvd rom player in 5.25" drive bay(s), 2) padded walls to dampen sound (my legacy pc system cpu/gpu fans were quite noisy, 3) i could rearrange the interior bays to suit my needs by adding extra HDD 4) plenty of room! 5) the best part... extra 140mm and 120mm fans! Now, the downside that prevented me from giving 10stars and a gold smiley... top cover can accidentally be smashed in and bend or break off the top lid tabs. keeps the dust out and i love the top lid feature! my retro gaming (offline) build: mobo: MSI 760GMA-P34 GPU: ASUS GTX770 DirectCU II 2Gb AMD FX 6300 w/ SilverStone KR01 cpu cooler really old CODEGEN 500X (550W) 3 Hard drives (but i'm testing more in future for total of 3 different OS builds) i hope i'm worthy of praise from be quiet!

You can't hear it when it's on, but you can feel a vast amount of air being pushed. The top vent can actually fit a 3 fan cooler(barely) despite manufacturer stating otherwise. The instructions aren't clear, so this is not a beginners build. This is a high quality case. The top vent cover seems kinda cheap.

I have the non-window variant. My build just uses pretty standard-size equipment. I've got a micro ATX motherboard and a Radeon RX 580, and that all fits without issue. I use the stock CPU cooler on my Ryzen 5 2600, and the case fans do a great job of keeping everything cool even when gaming at 4K in GTA V. And the whole time it's /really/ quiet. In a room with some background noise you can't even hear it running, and in a silent room it's utterly inoffensive. It's not even in a particularly well-ventillated space, either. It's been about six months since I put it together and it's still just as quiet despite being on thick carpet and not being cleaned yet. There are a lot of clever holes for cable management, and it's really easy to get it tidy on the inside. I really like the built-in fan controller; I think it's awesome to have that capability and I use it often. I also really love that you can selectively remove the parts of the rear where PCI devices like graphics cards and wireless adapters might go, while leaving the other slots covered. It forms this metal grille in the back that allows for airflow but won't let you accidentally drop anything inside. I got the all-black one and it has an understated yet really gorgeous look to it. The only detriment I can think of is that the manual is lacking in instruction. I think someone else who reviewed this encountered the same mistake I made with the SSD mounts -- I put them on backwards. Don't try to squeeze your SSD into the underside of the mount next to the motherboard; the SSD goes on top of the mount away from the motherboard, and the screws to mount the SSD go in through the side of the mount that faces the motherboard, and then screw into your SSD. Once you have it on the mount, you just reattach the mount to the case with the thumbscrew and you should be looking at the full unobstructed face of your SSD. I don't know why they designed it this way, but I like the flexibility of its placement once it's attached to the mount, as there are two places in which to attach the mount to the case. Overall, great design -- it works stupendously for my purposes. Couldn't be happier.

Overall I'm pleased. It fits the gigabyte aolus ultra motherboard with a noctua NH-U14S. It is quiet even with a total of eight fans running (three front, one back, two CPU, one chipset, one power supply), and the damping material on the case sides seems to be at least somewhat effective. I like the just plain black case with no place for multi-color LEDs. The power button is centrally located on the top front bezel and is easy to get to, and the reset button is small and unlikely to press accidentally. The tall feet on the bottom are a good idea especially if you mount the power supply to use the bottom vent. (I know other reviews complain about a motherboard standoff without the thread hole, and mine had that too, but I think it's intentional and not considered a mistake.) Unfortunately, there were a few downsides. The thumbscrews are cheap, and on my unit screw arrived slightly bending the thin steel it was screwed into. At this price point I expected quality screws throughout, engaged with standoffs or bushings. All the screw are cheap, inside and out. They thread into tapped holes in thin metal. I expect these to cross-thread and strip out easily, even handled with care. Cleaning the filter in the front panel is going to be inconvenient, because I can't pop the front panel off to get at the captive air filters without taking off the side panels to release the front panel tabs. I prefer cases where the front panel can be popped off without taking the case apart. It comes with three drive trays, and five slots to hold those trays, and no one has the extra be quiet HDD cage in stock. The 2.5" cages on the back of the motherboard tray are jokes. I'm not sure what drives they would actually fit. Maybe the 5mm ultra thin drives? The 7mm drive I tried certainly wouldn't fit at all. In any case, there is no effective air flow in that location behind the motherboard tray anyway, so I would consider those cages to be there only for show. The USB 3 slots in the front are not color-coded blue, and I wish they were. There is no USB-C connector on the front, nor any convenient way to add one. It would be nice to have a USB-C 3.1 connector with a type-e connector on the other end to work with modern motherboards. If you want that installed nicely in the front, you'll probably want to use a 5.25" drive bay adapter, in which case you can't have a fan mounted in front of the 5.25 drive bay. It looks as if you could fit 3 of the be quiet Pure Wings 2 140mm fans in the front, there are references to being able to add fans, and I thought somewhere I had seen a reference to placing three of them in front, but you can't actually fit three. It comes with one in the middle, which you could move to the top or bottom of the front, or you can have one fan at the top and one fan at the bottom, but you can't have three covering the front. I bought two extra Pure Wings 2 140mm fans, and then discovered that only one of the two extra would fit. I solved this by putting the third fan in the middle, but inside the case closer to the hard drive cages, and used four M4x60 bolts through the middle-most mounting holes in the upper and lower fans, through the mounting holes in the case, and then through the mounting holes in the inner, middle fan. Also, the fan switch on the front can control three fans. It comes connected to the 120mm fan in the back and the 140mm fan in the front, and there is one extra header for a second fan in the front. I have connected all three 140mm fans to the motherboard instead, and have the fan control switch connected only to the fan in the back.

This is a non-bias review of this item. I was not paid or offered the case for free or as a discount. I was building my own computer rig and was looking for a case that would allow me to install an internal DVD/CD writer to it (I still burn backup copies of music & DVD's; as well as installing DVD installation programs). I was not interested in a case that would show the fancy lights of the power supply and/or the RAM sticks. If that is what you are looking for: a non-frills case, this is it! This case is well designed. I placed in it an ATX-motherboard (MSI-B450 A PRO motherboard) and it fit perfectly. It came with all the features needed to install the various computer parts (cables and screws to add 2.5" SSD drives, M.2 Internal SSD drive, HDD drives & SATA devices.). It came with a front & rear fan. I added 3 more fans to it (Be Quiet Fans). One to front and 2 to the top. Now the way the case is designed, you hardly hear any noise coming out from it!!! You think that the computer is off! I would greatly recommend this case. It is easy to disassemble to bare bones in order to place the selected computer parts. I guess the only thing that may be annoying to some folks are the instructions. They could have been more descriptive and better written, but again you can figure that out. That does not in any way detract anything from the overall quality and craftmanship of this case. I highly recommend it!

I like the case quality. Rigid structurally and flexible as to how cabling and the amount of drive space. Fans of good quality and quiet. The top cover could be a better design as far as ease of adjustment, like the ability to lift and secure at different ventilation levels for the fans.

This case is beautiful if you're looking for a case without a clear side and with available 5.25 slots. The fans are very quiet and the built in speed selector works well. I actually bypassed it because of personal preference. (I prefer the motherboard to control the fan speed as it needs it, but again, that's my preference.) I've purchased two of these for businesses that I help out. They don't need/want to see the interior of the device. The case is rather wide in the front, but this accommodates a very spacious motherboard side for cable management. The removable HDD cages are a nice feature as well. I took two of them out because the client didn't need them and I used two SSD's that fit well in the aforementioned space behind the motherboard. (The SSD's mount on the backside of the removable mount.)

I just finished building this system a few days ago, and I have almost nothing negative to say about the case. I got this particular case because I wanted one capable of installing two optical drives, which most cases no longer allow for. I'm sorry, but everything can't be streamed! My other purpose for the drives is a huge amount of LP ripping and family 8mm video transfers/edits, which I will burn to discs for family members. Working with this case was a breeze. It comes with a pretty thorough manual and all the screws/parts needed for a basic ATX build. There's room for more 2.5" drives than I can imagine ever needing, and a few 3.5" drives as well. The case comes with two fans pre-installed, one in the rear and one in front. I installed one additional fan in the front, and two up top. If you didn't want to do optical drives, you could put one more fan in the front for a total of three, and the top frame will accept a liquid cooling fan assembly if you want to do that. My build is currently running very cool with the 5-fan arrangement, with good airflow. The front of the case allows air in on the sides of the front panel, out through the back, and the top panel is either completely removable with a screen for protection, or the top panel can be popped up in two increments to allow a perimeter gap for air escape (this is how I set it up). When building my system, everything fit exactly as it should. All screw locations are spot-on, power supply slipped in effortlessly, ATX motherboard fit perfectly, PCI cards, drives, everything! One thing I didn't go for was lighting, which this case is not really designed for. It has solid sides and front panel. There is ample room for cable routing, even if you stuff it full of drives. Note that there are three 3.5/2.5 drive mounts provided (and room for two more if needed), but I only used two for now. My one and only complaint is that I wish they would revisit the way the top panel tabs work to set the panel at two different levels for air opening. They do work, but it is too easy to accidently touch the top panel and pop it back down to a closed condition. It's a very delicate process to get it right, and I have had to place pads around the perimeter to keep the panel in place and prevent it from pushing back down to a closed position. All in all, a great case that I wouldn't hesitate to buy again.

Best case I have purchased so far. It's been a while since I pruchased a computer case, and this was to complete my new build after a issue I had with a graphics card being to big for the Fractal Design Define R3 E-ATX case. This case fits everything in - I had to do my research as the new build was already escalating in price. This case is very flexible in its configuration, especially if you still use DVD or Blu-ray drives as well as tradition al 3.5 SATA hard disk drives or even SSDs. Cable managmeent wasn't brilliant maybe because the configuration of the mainboards are so different and also a non modular PSU is a bit messy I suppose Other than that the airflow is good, and I do regular maintenance with the relative ease of access.

La caja es un tanque. Es grande, cuadrada, rígida, sin ventana y de metal grueso. Parece que ha salido de una oficina de hace 10 años, y me ha encantado. Tiene espacio suficiente para las bahías de 5,25" y discos duros HDD y SSD. Trae tornillos de sobra. Los ventiladores son de buena calidad, aunque sólo de 3 pines, por tanto el control es analógico (5V, 9V y 12V). Es una caja muy grande, sobre todo muy ancha, con espacio suficiente para el cable management. La organización de los cables es correcta, trae unos velcros muy útiles, y con un poco de cabeza los cables quedan muy bien ordenados. El hueco lateral es tan grande que los pocos cables que me sobraron de la fuente los pude dejar doblados en ese espacio. Me ha decepcionado un poco al ver que una placa ATX tenía problemas al colocarla, va muy justa, y tapa las aberturas de los cables. Recomiendo montar una micro ATX en su lugar. La longitud de los cables incluidos (ventiladores, I/O, etc. es correcta.) El frontal y la tapa son las únicas piezas de plástico, pero son de buena calidad. El frontal se quita muy fácilmente con unas pestañas laterales de plástico. La tapa superior, sin embargo, me parece un sistema pésimo. No sirve para ventilar, sólo para que escape más ruido, y la apertura es horrible, con unas pestañas muy malas. Recomiendo dejarlas cerradas y olvidarse. Por cierto, como se puede ver, el frontal es cerrado, así que no esperes que tenga un gran airflow, no metas componentes que sepas que se van a calentar, porque probablemente tengas un problema con las temperaturas. En resumen, caja muy grande, muy buena calidad en los materiales, buenos ventiladores, bastante silenciosa con los ventiladores en bajo/medio, no muy buena para una placa ATX, no muy buen airflow, pero un gran producto, me ha gustado montar un ordenador en esta caja.

Ging zelf nieuwe pc samenstellen, moest volledig gesloten zijn, geen glas of plexi. Er zijn er dus nog maar weinig waar je uitsparingen in hebt voor dvd, etc. Goede koop, mooi en overzichtelijk, goede gebruiksaanwijzing. 1 puntje, de bedrading voor de ingebouwde ventilators is niet duidelijk, 1 draadje aansluiten op de voeding, ok, maar er blijft nog een draadje over wat niet duidelijk is, zou gaan voor extra ventilator aan te sluiten, blijkt volgens opzoekingen op internet

Excelente material aislante, no se perciben sonidos agudos.

I was surprised to see this case at a steal deal rate. I already have a Magforge 100r and needed a new case to replace my DIY PC case for the file server. PROs - very Quiet even in a silent room, 140mm fans are the quietest, fan speed control, spacious with ample cable Management. CONs - screws on side panels are not the best. Stand offs too of similar quality but passable for the price. Ssd trays are very tight to fit a standard sized SSD rendering them almost useless. Overall the cons did nt deter me from giving 5 stars considering the budget and other products on similar price range.