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The Arctic White is very nice, and will look great in a bedroom or living room environment. We are certainly impressed with the overall looks and design of this case, especially in regards to the ‘handles' on the top and bottom. The left-hand side of the case has a fairly large grill to keep the components cool.
From the front, we can see there is only a single external 5.25″ bay, but this should be enough for an HTPC system build.
On the right-hand side of the case, we find the Power On and Reset buttons, as well as 2 x USB3.0 ports, a microphone and headphone socket.
The back of the case is unusual and is dominated by a 120mm fan, compared to the size of the case this is quite large!
The main point to note is that the motherboard is to be mounted horizontally so the I/O panel is positioned to accommodate this. The BitFenix Prodigy also has 2 PCI slots, potentially allowing for a graphics card and sound card to be fitted.
From the bottom of the case we can see that they have even included dust filters on the power supply intake fan grill.
The white looks much nicer than the black IMO. good review, I like this case. would need a new motherboard however.
Very stylish little case and I think people need to give Bitfenix some credit. when they first came out, their cases were badly flawed and since then they have adapted to fix problems based around user feedback. anti fingerprint material,. better build quality etc.
This is an excellent little media case, i love the looks.
Waiting for availability to buy one of these, cant wait. white rocks
No one else see the similarities between these and the old coloured G4 business macintosh cases? almost identical, just reduced in size!
The Prodigy should be an example of what not to do with an ITX board. I’ve seen fully featured M-ATX chassis smaller than this behemoth. BitFenix, try again.
I have a question. The 230mm Fan in the front; is it possible to have both, the 230mm AND the 5.25in optical drive in this case? Maybe I did not read it in the review, but that sparked my interest for this case.
well ive seen one and tink its a piece of trash too big bad plastic , not so good ventilation and cmon miniitx??? 1 pcix for graphics , im i suposed to buy a motherboard for what 100$ and then have only 1 pcie16 sure .. forget all the rest sound card sli and so on
i bought one today. the guy in the shop opened up the package to show me it, and it was damaged. the top plastic bits had come loose from the main chassis. i bought it from him discounted.. now ive spent a while assembling my NAS box into it. its one of the nicest cases ive used (and there have been a few). and i didnt get cut at all. it is very high standard & well engineered, just couldve made the top & bottom plastics slightly less flexable. Also this being ITX, god knows what sort of PSU you’ll fit in here + power up 8 drives…