14 DAY TRIAL // Mid-tower cases usually have enough room for several optical drives without taking away the room needed by everything else essential, but Cooltek decided to do things a bit differently for the UMX2.
UMX2 is the latest case that Cooltek made, and actually does stand out from all others of its kind at a single glance.
One reason is the way the base curls up at the bottom, putting an inch or so of space between the ground and the actual case itself.
Another is the single-piece front panel, which only has the gaps needed for the I/O and whatever slot-in 5.25-inch ODD you install inside.
In fact, the front, bottom and top panels are one single piece of aluminum curled around the chassis, providing a streamlined look and feel.
And with the side panels following a similar design, Cooltek is bound to attract customers based on the outer looks of the UMX2 alone, never mind the insides.
But speaking of the inside space, it is divided in such a way that it lets owners create system configurations featuring a slim 5.25-inch optical drive, a graphics card of up to 280 mm / 11.02 inches (or more than one card), three 3.5-inch drives (HDDs or SSDs), two 2.5-inch drives, seven PCI Express expansion slots and, of course, the motherboard pulling them all together.
Said motherboard can be a mini ITX, a micro ATX or a full-ATX platform. The case does, after all, measure 445 x 200 x 421 mm / 17.51 x 7.87 x 16.57 inches.
The Cooltek UMX2 has a price of €169.90, which means $230, although maybe we'll be lucky and the product will ship for $169.90 in the US. Thanks to the specially designed decoupled side panels, whatever PC is built within should make little noise.
