MONTECH HS01 has lots of design flaws. Bad engineering. Really weird design that causes issues. I bought 5 in total. Really tried to like them but i just cant.
Montech if ur reading these pls improve. I like the concept of this case but the product itself is just BAD.
The issues are as follows,
PSU extension cord has to be bent 90 degrees to be plugged into PSU. Every single time i was worried i might break it. U can simply use a 90 degree converter cord instead so i dont have to put so much excessive stress on the cable itself. For real, space for the power cord is extremely limited for no obviously reason. Why does it have to be this way?
Refer to my 2nd photo. That piece of metal ledge sticks out scratching the rear of my GPU. It also kinda blocks the GPU from being fully seated in the PCIE slot. I cannot push the GPU all the way in becuz it was touching that metal ledge.
Eventually i have to apply quite some force on the case and bend that piece of steel to make room for my GPU. GPU is a Gigabyte 4070 Ti.
Whoever designed this case, why would u make that piece of metal stick out by a few millimetre? Just why?
Refer to 3rd photo. The built-in GPU support bracket is actually not touching the GPU at all. There is about 2mm gap in between. And the screw is already at its lowest position. U can simply make the bracket 2mm longer when ur designing this case and it will work just fine. But instead, it is 2mm short. And i have to put a ugly looking external anti sag bracket down below.
3.5 inch HDD mount at the back has small opening. And it is partially blocking SATA power cable. Again i have to apply some force and almost break my SATA port on the HDD.
360 AIO cannnot hide its fan cables behind the AIO. There is no space. So as u can see my fan cables are just daisy chained and hanged out like that. Kinda ugly looking.
Somewhat hard to plug in PSU 24-pin mobo power cable. It's better to have some space to the right of the 24 pin connector. Again, I had to bend the mobo main power cable with excessive force otherwise it just wont fit.
So to summarize,
extremely narrow space for power cord that forces user to bend it by 90 degrees
metal ledge sticks out by 2mm that blocks GPU installation.
GPU anti sag bracket is short by 2mm.
Better HDD mount pls?
Can we have some room to hide AIO fan cables?
Make it easy for ppl to plug in 24 pin mobo cable pls.
I wont buy this case again even if it were free. Considering I have purchased and built 5 computers with them, they had given me enough headaches. I prefer to steer away no matter how good the price is.
I do like the double rear fan exhaust design. But Montech just do something. Make a HS-01 Pro 2.0 or HS-11 or HS-01 Neo whatever the name is. Just get rid of those annoying "features" listed above thank u.