Cougar Panzer EVO RGB Black ATX Full Tower RGB LED Gaming Case with Remote

I am extremely happy with my purchase due to the fact that I just love the pure aesthetics of this thing. That being said it does have some issues with spacing despite being absolutely massive.The headspace of the case is inhibitory of putting a large radiator with fans pushing air out. There isn't much clearance in the headspace between the the heat sinks on the motherboards.Another thing the header cables for the case itself come down from the front and over the first of the 3 fans in the front of the case and make it difficult to squeeze in a radiator on the top of the case. It's not impossible and I managed to get a kraken x52 in there, but i couldnt mount both fans pushing air out. Instead I had to put 2 fans pulling and one fan pushing.Another thing, you absolutely have to watercool this case. Your parts will be INSANELY hot if you dont. Either that or be prepared to take the front glass plate off as well as the dust traps as my R7 3700x was seeing temps of 82C under load before I watercooled it which dropped the temps down to an average of about 58.6C.Cable management in the case is not terrible. There is a nift spot for the cougar RGB box on the back panel where you can magnetize it.

This case is very sturdy and well-built. It supports just about anything you want in your PC: drives, cooler EATX motherboard, and power supply with room to spare which makes it easy to work on. The front panel cables (along with the fans) are cabled and easily accessible. There are numerous ports for routing cables and connectors. The built-in handles make moving the case an easy exercise. Remote control lighting is great. If you are ok with the dimensions, this is a great case to showoff your build.

There are some good selling points for this case but there are also downsides you must be aware of because they aren’t really disclosed or not in full context. Just did a high end build with it.The good- love the handles because I do need to move it occasionally and a glass display case (like most) isn’t terribly realistic. This totally fits the bill and is sturdy when moving it with the handles. Unique to this case model.- good front header button placement. Many cases now out on top (I have a cat that likes to press buttons if they are in too, ok, that is cat owner specific)- glass peg mounts are good, solid, easy (although wish it was a swing door)- pretty good ssd and HDD placement in right side.- good combination of glass, magnetic mesh options, decent airflow, tested, but be sure to consider how many fans and placement because I had to move them around to achieve this- ARGB fans that come with it (3) are pretty damn good. Work well and aren’t super high speed but get job done. Saves moneyThe bad- the front header cables that come with it are very poor quality. The USB 3.0 cable locked into the motherboard and pulled off the the bracket on the mobo and ruined it. I had to file down the licking clips before using another mobo replacement the cable does NOT have any release mechanisms but “locks”. This is insane. Clearly out of spec.- the rest of the front header cables are generally very cheap and too short making wire management very difficult. All the power button and LED cables very finicky. Know where these go in your setup, let build run for a few days, then pull all wires to do cleanup (do these last).- good wire holes to feed them through, but nowhere specific to conceal wire runs. The glass is tinted so try and use that to advantage.the biggest issue is that it really didn’t do a good job in the design for cooling devices. If you are doing cooking you need to know this. Those handles? They include those in the overall height dimensions but there is dead space below them. Then a glass compartment, then below the actual roof of the inside frame. It appears that their design perspective is that radiators would go inside the case above the mobo (that is all that will fit there), and then fans on too feeding air downward). This is a big no no, generally don’t want to feed air flow down against a radiator that has hot air rising against it. I could have flipped the fans to draw air outward but were other issues with this (ugly on top through glass) but primarily just forcing air into a glass compartment and don’t think it would be good for the overall airflow of the case. You can’t mount the radiator on top of the fans (tubes don’t fit and don’t want to have it in the outside enclosed compartment).You can also mount the radiator in the front. Ultimately this is what I did. I kind of had to. But it gets even worse. There is only on place to mount it, starting at very bottom (defines holes for radiator and fans). The place to actually worked for my airflow but since all the holes are predefined you go from their 2 fan concept to 3 (or have a giant dead air space above radiator which you really don’t want to do in my testing) which leads to 2 fans close together and the third spaced apart. This really sucks.I added two more ARGB fans to the top which is very flexible as to how you want to place these (for 120’s anyhow).Nice touch on the headset clip, little touch but actually something I am using a lot already. It’s optional.They also include an RGB hub. You can run it manually or plug it into an ARGB port on the mobo. So options here. They provide a remote control it all works pretty decent. The valve that goes into the ARGB port is actually good quality, compared to my thermaltake (which is like a loose sock and have to send it back).Overall the top compartment that provides advantage also imposes some considerable drawbacks that aren’t obvious or disclosed. For peole that like the advantages, won’t be impacted by the disadvantages and don’t mind extra detail for cleaning up the wiring, it’s a great case.For those looking to do more complex builds, particularly with many fans and water cooling, should look to a different case as it’s design clearly didn’t prioritize this aspect. It’s also ATX on the outside but in the inside it’s very much mid tower and will be cramped to pull off anything elaborate. I have big hands, headlamps and magnified glasses and was still a total PITA. I will eventually deprecate this to my second machine once new Ryzen and Nvidia Ampere comes out so I won’t ever have to mess with the innards again and look to an ETX that is designed for more elaborate builds.Oh and the instructions included are terrible, and leave out some key items. They don’t have support either. So, there’s that...

The case looks great, it arrived on time and the packaging was in good shape. I will say that the back handlebar was bent but I'm not knocking of a star for it because I took the handlebars off. The materials used feel solid and i have noticed no damage on it. Overall this is a really good tower although I did use some standoffs on the front window panel (in front of the 3 preinstalled 120mm fans) to allow for more flow air being pulled in.UPDATE: so I came back to add a couple of things as I've modified the case and I also need to mention a few cons that I failed to mention before: 1) this case does in fact have an issue with some atx mobos fitting due to the back fan. I purchased a gigabyte aorus z390 ultra and the heat sink at the top right of this mobo will bump against the back fan, causing you to not be able to install the mobo. To fix this, I just removed the back fan and left it off i can see how this would be an issue for some because they will complain about thermals but I when I have the computer on, I take off the main glass panel exposing the insides and I'm not a computer expert here but when I take that glass panel off everything inside is pretty cool just a little warm to the touch (am wearing gloves when touching any of the parts) so this method has done a lot to help ME with thermals. When I turn the computer off I just replace the glass panel to help prevent dust getting in. Now I know a lot of people are going to say that taking off the glass panel is going to hurt your thermals but after after a couple months of use, my computer parts are still running great even under load and I'm not having any overheating issues. Again this fix worked for me but idk if others experience will differ. I will also not that you do not need mobo standoffs for this case as the dimples inside the case act as standoffs you just have to make sure the mobo is centered on them. I'll come back with another update if I notice or come across anything. Hope this helps and again I'm not a PC expert just providing my personal experience with this case after almost 3 months of use. Overall it's still a great case but I knocked off a star because of having to remove the back fan. Not a deal breaker for me but I can see how for some it would be.