Logisys Clear Acrylic Case

This arrived at my school mailbox, in a rather large box. The walk out to my car was interesting! The packaging is really quite sturdy, with plenty of layers and padding, and even a full coat of peel off plastic to protect the case from scratches. It’s good to know that Logysis cares about their product. Some of the plastic coating was pretty hard to get out of the cracks in the case, but not too bad.

And here are some pictures of the packaging and the case after unwrapping:

I thought it was going to be much gaudier than it really was. The overall design is pretty clean-looking, and much as I’m normally not a fan of fan grills, these aren’t too bad. I would maybe prefer just some mesh instead, but that would be an easy fix.

Looking at the case, it’s not going to be much fun to work on. Both side panels are held in by ten screws each, with no possible way for a quick release to get to your CMOS jumper, and installing new hard/optical drives will be quite a project for future upgrades as well, because the motherboard mounts directly onto the left side panel. Also, because of the way to mount the motherboard, the easy way of hiding your various cables behind the motherboard tray is automatically voided.

The case comes with three 80mm blue led fans already installed. One in the front for intake, one in the side panel for intake, and one in the rear for exhaust. The overall size of the case isn’t small, but not overpowering like a full tower, either. Perfect size for the normal user. The actual dimensions of the case are: 7 5/8" x 17 3/8" x 18 5/8".

The components used in this install are as follows:

Testing System
• Processor: AMD 2200+ Thoroughbred B
• Motherboard: Abit AN7
• Memory: 512MB PC3200
• GPU: PNY Verto FX5900xt
• Hard Drive: 40GB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm
• PSU: Aspire Concord 450w

Thoroughbred processors are pretty notorious for running hot, so I think that this will be a good test of the overall cooling capacity of the case, especially since the cpu heat sink/fan cooling combination isn’t all that great. As I’m using a stock heat sink with an 80mm fan bolted onto it with Arctic Silver 5, probably the bare minimum I would trust with this cpu.

The power supply went in perfectly, which I was a little worried about. However, to contradict this the motherboard did not go in so smoothly. The brackets flat out didn’t fit the mounting holes for the AN7. So, after trying for the better part of an hour, I just left the bottom right corner hole unmounted. I guess this isn’t a huge deal, but it was rather disappointing that after all the work spent on protecting the case, the measurements were a bit off.

Everything else fit in pretty well, the only exception being the hard drive, which required a little bit of flexing to get all the screws in and the drive secured, but this did not take much time and being that it’s acrylic, not bad for the case either.