BitFenix Enso Mesh Case Review – The King of Budget Cases?

BitFenix has packed the Enso Mesh reasonably well. It arrives in a thick, brown cardboard box with the contents printed clearly on. For a case with tempered glass, the internal packaging is adequate. The use of thick foam on the top and bottom of the case should protect it from even the most over exuberant delivery courier.

The case is covered in a thin plastic bag and anti-scratch plastic film is applied to both sides of the tempered glass panel for protection. Included with the case is a bag of assorted screws, three extra motherboard standoffs, six small zip ties and one spare thumbscrew for the tempered glass panel.

The front panel is of mostly plastic construction apart from the mesh which is steel – a woven fabric sits behind the mesh. Although strong, the plastic front panel takes considerable force to remove it – almost to the point where it feels like you might damage something. The front I/O consists of 2 x USB 3.0 sockets, a 3.5mm headphone and microphone socket, a power and reset button and an RGB lighting control button. The addition of a USB Type-C port would have been beneficial on the front I/O but BitFenix chose to omit this from their design.

There is, however, a noticeable problem with the colour of the front panel, which does not match the steel parts of the case. The two are completely different shades of white. Admittedly, It can be difficult manufacturing two different materials with the end product being a perfect colour match, but in this instance its not even close and a bit of a disappointment. This problem carries over to the bottom section/feet of the case which is of the same plastic material as the front panel, although the colour match is not as noticeable as with the front panel, it is still visible here too.

BitFenix has also attempted to combat the dreaded dust build-up with a top mounted magnetic mesh filter of a similar design as the front mesh. There is a bottom sliding filter for the power supply fan which pulls out from the side beneath the tempered glass panel. Obviously, the front panel mesh acts as a large dust filter, which is also magnetic so easily removable for cleaning.

RGB Gallery

RGB LED lighting is integrated into the perimeter of the front panel of the Enso Mesh and you are supplied with one RGB LED fan. BitFenix has added an RGB lighting controller board mounted on the rear of the motherboard tray.

The controller is operated by the button on the front panel, which can cycle through static colours to match a system with a particular colour theme and also features various rainbow patterns. BitFenix states that their RGB lighting is Asus Aura Sync compatible. We found that the RGB lighting integrated into Enso Mesh also worked in sync with the Gigabyte motherboard during testing and can be adjusted with Gigabytes RGB Fusion software.

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