I decided to move my parts from an ancient Corsair crystal case to a fancy $400 ROG Hyperion case since I got a 4080 super and it’s huge. It’s been fine but honestly not much more room to built than the tiny old crystal case, back panel is squeezed for space.

I was tempted to go dual chamber and most certainly will next time. The doors don’t close well, nothing seals them, and the PCI-E slots are impossible to screw off without a long skinny screwdriver. No thumb screws and you have to go through tiny holes to get to the screws or have a tiny screwdriver. I have a 2” one that was too long even. Icing on the cake is when I went to go finish the build the sticker telling me the door is glass doesn’t even peel off. Idk what I was thinking with this thing.

I felt like making a change after rocking Thermaltake's CTE T500 case for awhile so I ordered the ROG Hyperion off Amazon. It came in its enormous box covered stickers warning of its weight, not for me but employees. and a shipping label indicating it had to be sent via freight, because it was so huge and heavy lol

I was impressed with the aesthetics but the airflow wasn't great - especially considering that for a full tower case it doesn't have that many fan mounts imo. I finally decided to return it, but Amazon offered a $200 credit just to keep it (I can only assume because the damn thing takes up half a warehouse shelf and every stage of it's transport risks a workers comp injury lol)

So, plied with a discount, I decided to see if I could rig up the rest of my unused 140mm fans in it and brute force some better airflow. Now I have 8 140mm's and 3 120mm's, and it's roughly on par with my old case temps so I'm much happier now.

Is it excessive? Yes! Is it a great value? Absolutely not! Does it look really cool? I gotta say, yes.