So what do you get for a case retailing around plus minus 90 euros ? A super ventilated case, nearly silent in operation, with even more cooling potential if you ever feel the need to add extra fans. If Air cooling is not your thing, this case has room and space foreseen for bottom and or top 120/240 radiators. (radiator dimensons have to be verified ofcourse)

The craftmanship is top notch. No sharp edges, beautifull black finish. Coolermaster provided more than enough holes to neatly tuck away all them horrid PSU and S-ATA and other cables. Our BeQuiet PSU is not modular and has pretty long cables with a whole shabang of connectors. there was absolutely no problem to hide them from eyesight inbetween the mobo tray and the sidepanel.

Storage wise we are spoiled again, not only has Coolermaster provided us not only with 2.5" SSD compatibility, also the 1.8" versions are supported. The old rotational drives are cooled by the front 140mm fan. The tool free hard drive trays are solidly engineered and click firmly into place.

 The external S-ATA X-dock is already being semi copied on new competitors cases introduced at CeBIT 2011. We had some issues with drive recognition, but that was purely the Operating System Install to blame. A reboot gave us each time access to the files and folders...

At the given price of around 90 euros it will be hard for competitors to beat the combo Coolermaster has put together here. The windowed version is, as expected 15 euros more expensive. There's even a special Nvidia Edition for the fans of the green team. Similar to Corsair 600T,  a white version makes your build to really stand out of the crowd. 

Due to the superb craftmanship features and cooling performance we award the CM 690 II Advanced the High End and Performance award :

I would like to thank the following persons without whom this review would not be possible :

Rogier from Asus NL for the continuous support

Gareth from Corsair for the RAMs and SSD drive