My goal for the evening is complete! I left some feedback and had a couple of questions for
@Wahaha360 in the album.
I'll start with the only negative I have for the whole experience, and that goes to the user manual. The second iteration is much more informative than the first one, but I ended up using a combination of both, plus Ali's build video for anything I had questions on. I think specifying which screws are for what would be greatly beneficial. Including each instruction in an album instead of separate links would be nice as well.
Now for the good stuff! There are many, and I mean MANY satisfying steps to building in this case. To start, I really enjoyed my experience with the flat packaging. It was convenient, easy to organize, and added another step to the PC build process I've never had before that I greatly enjoyed! The CNC work is truly a thing of beauty, and the friction fit sections are satisfying indeed! The mesh is surprisingly heavy, and by that I mean I feel like one side weighs as much as the entire frame put together. It's quite premium! While all of that is good stuff, I have to hand it to the riser strut for taking the win as my favorite part of the case. How one little part can be so integral is what makes it so special. When I realized the motherboard standoffs went on it (I did things way out of order), I got a big dumb smile on my face b/c it's very cleverly done!
If I had any concerns about anything, it would be the bottom front section of the mesh not having any support to keep it from bowing into the case. This might be a nonissue once I put parts in the case, but I don't see how that will fix what I'm talking about.
I initially planned to migrate my system into my T1 tomorrow, but I think I'm going to wait for my power button and just plan my custom sleeving routes instead. Goodnight all!