Fractal Design Meshify 2 Compact Black ATX Flexible High-Airflow Light Tinted Tempered Glass Window Mid Tower Computer Case

This case is very nice. It's a great size. You can fit a full-size ATX motherboard inside. The PSU has its own bay and there's a hard drive rack for 2 drives which can be actively cooled by the fan. 140mm fans in front and 120mm in rear. I love this case but it can get very cramped if you use SSDs instead of NVMEs.SSDs need active cooling. If you use the mounting slots behind the motherboard, the SSDs are going to get hotter and won't live as long. Fortunately, this case has a drive rack at the base next to the PSU. Gamers Nexus said that you are forced to use an SFX PSU in this case if you want to use the hard drive rack as well as a fan. This is wrong. I have a Corsair RM850x installed and there's plenty of room for the drive rack and cables as well as a 140mm fan cooling the drives.The drive rack is perfectly doable but it is cramped to get the drive rack in place. You have to put the drive rack in before the fan, so adding a new drive, removing a drive or replacing one means taking out the fan first and then the drive rack. It's quite cramped so it's quite fiddly dealing with that drive rack. But it's done that way to keep the size of the case down so it's fiddly but appreciated because I like a smaller case. The case itself is similar to the Fractal Arc Mini R2 and that was for MATX motherboards so yes, it's a nice compact case. The bottom fan filter comes out at the front which is very nice but to remove the top fan filter, you have to remove the top panel which unscrews from the back. So that's not so nice. The front panel filter just pops off so thats not too bad. The case feels very sturdy.One major annoyance is the PSU shroud. It looks nice and it's very sturdy but it's riveted and Fractal say it's essential to stay in place and keep the case together. That's a pain because it makes getting at the drive cage and PSU all the more fiddly and dark. It also means you have to have the PSU with the fan facing down. You might like it that way but it would have been nice to have a choice. I just found the PSU shroud to be in the way a lot of the time and I often wished I could remove it. Seems silly to design a case with a PSU shroud that can't be removed.Still, it's a really nice case and I didn't want the bigger Meshify 2 case so I went with this and I'm happy with it. Top marks to Fractal once again.

I really like my current PC case, a Fractal Design Mini C, but needed slightly more space for a longer graphics card (although I prefer smaller cases) so I chose the Meshify 2 Compact. It's another quality Fractal Design case and has better airflow, thanks to its mesh front panel which also has 1 USB C + 2 USB A, is wider enough for a 4070 Ti graphics card, has a dark glass side panel and a solid side panel (to hide the cabling mess), has lots of rubber grommets to neatly pass cabling through including above and below where the motherboard will sit, and has a PSU shroud. The only negative points, which haven’t affected my 5* rating, are that the bottom filter fits very loose so is very likely to rattle from time to time which is annoying. I had this with the Mini C and had to put some tape along the edge of the filter to wedge it in place. This time I will probably slightly bend the metal grips underneath that the filter slides into. I would also like to have seen some sound dampening material on the inside of the solid panel, like the Mini C, although with a mesh front panel it probably would be of little benefit. In a few years time, when I replace this new PC, I expect to see Fractal Design cases at the top of my wishlist again.

Worst case I've ever built in, the standoffs were all stripped within minutes and required a plyers to screw them in. I had to disassemble the pc recently and my motherboard couldn't get away from them.