Cougar MX300 Case Review

Inside the Cougar MX300

Each panel is attached to the chassis using two plastic thumbscrews.

The motherboard tray has a huge cutout for you to access the backplate of the CPU coolers without having to remove the motherboard from the case, and holes for you to route cables behind it. The case supports ATX and smaller form factor motherboards.

Figure 10: overall look

Figure 11: a view behind the motherboard tray

In Figure 13, we have another overall look inside the case. Notice that the top panel supports the installation of two 120 mm fans. The case also supports radiators up to 240 mm in length there, but there is a small distance (about 1” or 25 mm) between the top panel and the motherboard area, so probably only slim radiators with slim fans will fit here.

Expansion cards are fastened using regular screws. (The case comes with four extra thumbscrews that can be used here.) The MX300 supports video cards up to 12.2” (310 mm) long. You can install CPU coolers up to 6.3” (160 mm) tall.

Figure 12: overall look

The power supply is installed at the bottom of the case. It can be installed with either its bottom fan facing up or facing down, so you can decide if you want the fan of your power supply pulling air from inside the case or from outside of it. As shown before, there is an air filter for the power supply fan.

You will be able to fit power supplies up to 11” (280 mm) deep, which is more than enough to accommodate most power supplies available on the market.

There is no support for fan installation on the bottom panel of the case.

Figure 13: power supply compartment