Phanteks Eclipse P300A (PH-EC300ATG_BK01) high airflow full-metal mesh design, compact ATX Mid-tower, 120mm black case fan, Black

The cost to quality fallacy gets musicians and tech nerds the most. I love how one reviewer says, "this is a good entry level case for moderate gaming". Huh? Moderate gaming? Temperature is the metric that means the most to me... you know, performance?I do intense gaming with a Ryzen 5900X and RX 6750 XT. AAA games at max settings w Ray Tracing for hours on end at 1280. I can also render to my heart's content, including Blender and StudioOne projects. I've got 4 Blender projects rendering right now on the computer I am typing this review on, and HWINFO has both the CPU and GPU at 60C.For fans I have 3 Corsair 120ML Pro and 1 Corsair 140ML pro. The CPU is cooled with a Skythe Fuma 2. Bottom line, temps are never a problem.As for other features, I like that it is relatively small for an ATX case. The side panel is made of heavy high quality glass that sits in solidly. Cable management it fine. The controls and USB interfaces are fine. Drive space is fine and easy to access from the back or by removing the front panel. The front panel is easy to remove but still sturdy when in place. PSU storage is fine with an easy to remove and clean dust filter on the bottom.No frills is the path to bang for the buck. The thing that many more expensive cases get wrong is simply restricting air flow. That's all. No magic. This case's mesh front does great at letting the air in.If I had to search for one nit-picky gripe, there is a weird little white LED light strip thing at the bottom that doesn't line up well and is distracting to the aesthetic, but I just unplugged it and you can't notice it was ever there. But it was a strange design choice.

The p300a is a great, airflow focused, compact ATX case! I found the front mesh, tempered glass panel, buttons, etc. all to be very good quality and the case looks great. The build was fairly smooth with a few small quirks:1) I had to remove the rear exhaust fan to seat the motherboard properly in place. The fan is almost directly on top of the rear I/O and my motherboard has a heatsink and small 40mm right there as well. Once the motherboard is fully installed, then the fan could be reinstalled without any issues.2) The power supply space is a little tight. My power supply is 150mm long. I had to partially uninstall the HDD cage and rotate it out of the way to get the power supply in place.3) There is one "mystery" wire that I found running from the top/front I/O to behind the hard drive cage. I thought this was a relic from the RGB controller of the standard p300 case and was tempted to cut it out of the case, but did not. Once the build was finished and powered on, I saw that there is a small, white LED light strip just under the bottom edge of the tempered glass panel. This cable supplies power to that light.4) The front has fan mounts spaced for 120 or 140mm fans. I already had 140mm fans from my previous case. They installed fine, however, the actual cutouts for the fan blades are sized for 120mm fans and roughly 20% of the blade area for my 140mm fans was blocked. I cut the openings larger using a Dremel. This was absolutely not necessary, but made me feel better about the setup.I bought this case to replace a massive (by comparison) fractal define r4, and couldn't be happier. Much better airflow, and the system is quieter than it was in the fractal case since better airflow means the fans don't have to run as fast to cool the system.

+Low price for a tempered glass windowed case+Standard parts fit in a standard fashion+Black color goes with everything+Convenient built-in cable ties and time-saving pre-tied front panel wires+Lack of sharp steel razor edges, sometimes found in low-price cases•Tempered glass is very slightly tinted. Reduces the ferocity of those eye-searing gamer RGB LEDs, but can make it a bit dark in there.•Side panel thumbscrews have a retaining system. You won’t lose them, but they’re slightly more fiddly than the standard bare hole and flat bracket.-PSU and cables are a very tight fit. Easier if you don’t have 3.5” hard drives, because then you can remove the drive bay in the front of the basement.-Low cost is achieved by not supplying extra fans, SSD brackets, and by having minimum front panel connectivity options. If you need them, you will spend all the money you would have saved.-Gap between the motherboard tray and the backside panel is very slim. Some wires may be pinched here, especially if you have two 2.5” SSDs powered by one cable from the PSU. But, as above, if you want to run 2 SSDs, you should look at a slightly more expensive case.-This case is not optimized for airflow, so your parts may get warmer than you would like. Make sure to update firmware and get those fan curves operating.Overall: a functional case, with some trade-offs to achieve a competitive price. If you have a short parts list, or are planning to run M.2 SSDs almost exclusively, or if you have spare case fans, this is a great choice.