Antec VSK4000E-U3_US Black SGCC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

Fantastic case for the price. Perfect for a cheap build. The case is lightweight, thin, and cheap, but just sturdy enough to work. Discrete styling, easy to access case buttons and USB 3 and audio jacks. Rare to find three external 5.25 drive bays in this price range.A lot of sharp edges, so be careful. The plastic 3.5 bay cover was exceptionally difficult to pop out.The case is small and cramped. Everything will fit, barely. It is clearly smaller in comparison to the Antec Sonata II below it in the photos (although the Sonata II cost twice as much). No fancy drive rails for easy installation, but none to misplace either.Cable management can be challenging due to the tight space.Very tight fit getting the motherboard installed. There is less than a quarter inch between the motherboard and the 5.25 drive mounts, and even less once the power cable is plugged into the motherboard.Keep the included screws in a safe place, because they are all smaller than typical case screws. such as the motherboard standoffs and screws, and the pci card screws.Airflow is good due to the large perforated area above the motherboard and cpu, however dust might be an issue.Overall, affordable and cheap but works. I'd buy it again.

After searching and looking at many other micro atx cases, this was the only one that seemed to satisfy my (presumably rather ordinary) criteria: 1) At least four 3.5" drive bays. 2) Not enormous. 3) No paint on the inside - cases with painted interiors tend to have very poor grounding/shielding, in my experience. 4) No mesh on top. Really I'd prefer no mesh at all but it seems hard to avoid this baffling trend which has the potential to transform a spilled beverage from a common, petty annoyance into grave, costly foul-up. If the point of a case is to protect the components within then drilling/punching unnecessary holes hardly makes much sense. This case does have mesh on one side but I'll cover it with something. I dock one point for the mesh and because most PCI bracket screw holes weren't threaded. I have a basic tap&die set but didn't have enough space to get a tap lined up properly. Eventually I used the screw from the first slot to tap the rest - the metal was only just soft enough. Overall, the case is cheaply made but its design does not take any particularly gross departure from common sense.

All the criticisms of this case are true. There's a few funky hole locations, no cable management space, and flimsy sheet metal. But it is one of the few cases with enough 5 1/4 front panel bays, which is exactly what I was looking for. I'm building a utility box to save files, test distros, and record from an old Sony DV camera. This box fit the bill. Every old desktop box I had, I was constantly crawling under the desk and switching hard drives and stuff. With that in mind, I put a 6 bay icy dock, drive switch, USB 3.0 panel. and a multi port card reader on the front panels. Its a budget build, so I didn't want to break the bank on the case. I did a couple of light mods including mounting a couple fans on the side panel for intake. This case was an excellent solution to my problems.

This is an older style case with the power supply mounted at the top rear. There appears to be plenty of room for 3.5" drives. I wouldn't fill it with high-powered components, because there wouldn't be enough air flow, but for the MB with an AMD K6-3 that I plan to put in it, it should be fine. It would probably make a decent DIY NAS case also. With 5.25 to 3.5 adapters, it looks like it should hold 8 drives, but I'm not sure. It might hold 9 with a front drive bay insert (3x5.25 to 4x3.5) but that may take a little sheet metal work to get the tabs on the side out of the way. That would depend on the insert.I haven't used it yet, and may not for some time yet.

Well organized and plenty of space to put Hard drives and DVD's very nice

this is probably the cheesiest case I have ever attempted to use in the last 35+ years of assembling desktop computers. The metal is so thin, it only has one side. The motherboard mounting standoffs are not the standard thread thats been around for many years. The standoffs rotate in the sheet metal and won't tighten up to allow the motherboard screws (which are not standard threads, which results not being able to fully seat the motherboard screws to the standoffs).If I could give this product less than 1 star, I would gladly do so. ANTEC was once reputed as top tier in the industry, but sadly, those days are long gone for this company. This case is so much a piece of junk, I'm just going to eat the cost and send it to the metal recycler. I would NOT recommend this case to anyone. Pay a little more and get a head and shoulders a higher quality case. UPDATE - After further attempts to use this piece of garbage, it is next to impossible to get the motherboard mounting screws to line up properly to mount the board. Ended up ordering and additional mounting screw kit that included standoffs and "nuts" to have the ability to secure the standoffs to the case. It is a sad state of affairs that ANTEC cheaped-out by having this case made in China. This is a very, very, very poor quality product. Do not buy this or any other ANTEC products.