Cooler Master Gladiator 600 Case Review

Conclusions

Cooler Master Gladiator 600 is a mid-tower case targeted to the user that wants an inexpensive good-quality mid-tower case with a good selection of features. Here is a summary of what we found about this product.

Strong Points

• Meshed bay covers.
• Dust filters on the front panel.
• Hole in the motherboard tray for accessing the backplate of the CPU cooler.
• Holes for routing cables on the motherboard tray.
• eSATA port.
• The two USB ports are far away from each other allowing you to install two “fat” USB devices at the same time.
• No sharp edges where you could cut yourself while building your PC.
• Good number of hard disk drive bays (five or six, if the 5.25”-to-3.5” adapter is used).
• Individual screwless mechanisms for fastening daughterboards.
• Screwless mechanisms for fastening the disk drives.
• Outstanding cost/benefit ratio.

Weak Points

• Slot covers could be meshed.
• Dust filter for the power supply fan is hard to remove and clean after the PC is built.
• No noise absorbing mechanisms for the hard disk drives.

We think this is a terrific product for the user that is on a budget and is looking for a good mid-tower case. Costing only USD 50 at Newegg.com, this product is a no-brainer. We could complain that it doesn’t come with a rear fan, but at USD 50 this is hardly a “defect.” If you buy this case we highly suggest you to buy and install the rear fan, which should be mounted in exhaustion mode, i.e., blowing air from inside the case to the outside.