Silverstone Redline Series RL04

The Silverstone Redline Series RL04 mid-tower case is on the test bench at eTeknix today. Overall they seemed pretty impressed with the RL04, here's a quote from the review:

The RL04 is a rock solid entry to the budget friendly end of the market, so much so that I’m amazed that it costs as little as it does. Silverstone have gone the extra mile here to cram in as many features as possible for as little money as they can and normally you would expect there to be some big sacrifices in build quality to ensure you get everything within a certain price range, however that really isn’t the case.

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That's some special kind of ugly right there. Oh Silverstone, what's happened to you.

Jeebus...did Transformers have a black sheep of the family nobody ever knew about? That case is ugly...

It's an Antec GX700 with an even uglier front panel, if that's possible. I have one of those with a dual-Xeon mobo and two E5-2680s folding@home in it, and it's great for keeping this baby cool.

These are actually pretty good cases but they have some weird and somewhat undesirable nuances, like the front panel falling off easily if you don't have an optical or drive bay device to help hold it in, and that flat back where you instinctively grab the PCI slot cover (don't) to pick it up.