Montech seems to always have a lot of good budget cases

If they can make a profit off of $65 for a case, imagine how much you're being ripped off by others that sell it for $100+.

I was actually surprised how much Montech offered for their price. I bought the Sky Two and it came with 4 aRGB ring fans (2 reversed) and the case looked so good on my wife's white/pink build. I had an issue where I kinked the USB C header cable and had an issue with their fan controller blowing full speed all the time and they sent me the replacement parts in 3 days without needing me to send anything in for RMA. Would definitely use them again on my next build.

Montech's Customer Service is actually very good; based on the one time I've had to contact them. A few years ago I purchased the Montech X1 case, in white, for my kid; which he picked out. Early last month, June 2023, I was taking the glass side panel off and it slipped from my hand and fell distance of the PSU shroud to the top of my desk, 4-1/4", and shattered. I got on Montech's website and put in a request to purchase a replacement glass panel. They replied to me within an hour asking for my shipping info, the serial number (sticker on the back of the case), and my order number. I gave them the order number I had from NewEgg and the date of purchase. Within a few days they sent me an email with one word, "Processed". Within a week I received a new glass side panel. Didn't pay for it. I asked how much I owed them, and they told me I owe nothing since that case is old and discontinued. For me Montech went from a brand I would overlook to a brand I would highly consider/recommend to people. You should do a review on their fans; especially the reverse fans they have.

I've used a couple of their products over the past couple years, I've never been disappointed for the price. I had an issue with an older case that I don't think they sell anymore where some screws were very prone to stripping but I've had that same issue with bigger brands as well so not really a deal breaker for me

Mine just showed up in the mail a few hours ago. Im honestly impressed with the straight forward design and how kuch you get for the price. It's also not a complete hassle to build in like other budget cases.

I love Montech cases. I picked one up in the summer of 2020 on a whim because it was only $40... Still very happy with it to this day, and have built four or five computers for others with this brand's cases. Whenever they decide to enter the small form factor market, it's going to be game over.

Love the review. Love the fact that you did a budget one instead of some case with only some slight changes to the previous model, but costs costs loads more than this does.

montech is really doing pretty solid work in the budget range which is so awesome

I got the Montech Air X ARGB case and I absolutely love it. The case has great airflow and is very easy to build in.

Wow this case is amazing! I’m for sure going to be picking this up for my next budget build! There is just something amazing with finding the best bang for buck deals and saving money and making a budget PC. Thanks Jay!

Montech have really found an amazing spot in the market. I actually just built in one of their cases and I absolutely love it. I have so much room for upgrades in the future in it and thermals and noise are low as hell. Couldn't recommend them enough

I love high airflow budget cases. These look amazing.Thanks for letting us know about them.

If you get the correct size rubber fuel line for the hole. You can slice it lengthways and push it onto the metal chassis to make your own very sturdy gromits. It's an old mechanics trick for running wires through firewalls. The smaller the hole the smaller the tube you need. You can also use the clear fish tank tubing. The thicker the sidewall the better it holds in place. A little rubber cement makes it stay in place.

Damn it. You always come out with the most amazing budget options to recommend after I've built something. I was sold on the interior having enough space for three 360 radiators. It's not that I think I'll ever need three radiators, but just having the option to put one radiator in three different places means I'll never have to compromise on radiator placement and play the "where's the air bubble in my loop" game.

Nice walk-through Jay. If you use the 903 for a build, it goes great with the Metal DT24 air cooler from Montech. I just did a review/build with both and I LOVE how it turned out. They are killing it in the PC component space!

Good to see value for money these days so hard to find thanks for showing us Jay.

Looks like a great case for the $$. Good find Jay! Love my Lancool III, but if I'd seen these at time of purchase, I might've downgraded to the Max here. And it would be a minor downgrade, but at half the price, arguably more value I think.

Love this! Great to see solid cases for a good price.

Montech is really good. I picked up a case of theirs a few years ago to do a budget theme build in and was pleasantly surprised what I got at that price.

Thank you, really appriciate you looking at budget stuff as is usually my price range.

I've been shouting about Montech for quite a while now, it's nice to see it get bigger coverage. For a budget quality case, in my opinion its definitely worth it.

I bought the montech Air 2 and absolutely love it. Montech definitely gives a ton of value for the prices they have.

That is a sweet case! Love the fact that the front comes off easy. I always have to battle when trying to remove my front panel for cleaning ad have dropped it a few times☹

This is the case I'm striking for on my first build, as my budget is like 800 bucks, and man 75 bucks is a great value for everything the case offers, thx for the vid Jay!

Looks very nice. I'm currently using a Montech Sky One Lite case, which I'm happy with. This Air 903 Base is not only $5 cheaper, it comes with three 140mm PWN fans (Sky One had three 120mm DC fans) and the front panel looks much easier to pop off. If I were building my PC today, I'd go with this one.

5:25 - I like the right placement, no accidental touching and a shorter cablerun.

I'm getting Lian Li Lancool 216 vibes... It could be that I just bought one but they are very similar. One thing I like about the Lian Li over the Montech though is the PSU area has a mesh inlet on the same side of the case as the glass so if you do mount fans above the PSU they have more area for intake. Aside from that, there doesn't seem to be significant differences in overall layout.

Pretty outstanding for a budget case. Simple, but effective. Perfect case to put leftover or outdated components in.

I was away from technology for 14 years, i had no idea what happened in PC market. Your videos helped me to understand what I have missed those years. Thank you for that .

I think a good analogy for the "air gap" you mentioned in 9:20 is to imagine that the small area between the filter and the fans is like a very shallow funnel. If the fans are right against the mesh, there's no "funnel" and it's only using the area of the filter thats the size of the fans. If they're a bit spaced out then it's like the whole mesh acting as the "top of the funnel" that lets air in.

I'm using the Montech air 100 I love it. It's meant for a Micro ATX and I can still fit A 4070TI in it. You can also use the R GB button as a restart as well.

I have a sky one mini. Great little case. Surprising what you can get in there.

This looks like really good value considering the build quality and what you get. I would go for the MAX version as well, even if I didn't want the RGB. I also quite like the design, I've seen cases that cost a lot more that are a lot less good looking than this. I will consider buying a Montech case (maybe this one, but I know they have many other cases as well so we'll see) for my next build and will probably modify it. I'm currently working on a Mass Effect N7 case design and might do something similar with the Montech case.

i really like the magnetic front mesh. Overall case has form and function. For $70, no complaints if there is enough room for cables behind left side panel.

Great explanation of those budget cases, Thanks Jay

I'm very happy with my current Fractal case. But if I was looking to build a new budget PC or build for someone else, this would definitely be on the top of my list.

Appreciate the heads-up on a good deal. Thanks Jay and crew!

Seriously looking into them now. TY.

You got to check out Montech Air 1000, which has the push-removable front filter, having the USB/power/audio jacks panel at the front rather than the side, AND ALL the bell and whistle you've shown. The preinstalled fans is so damn quiet even running at 100% speed (via Fan Control software)

Had my montech Argb100 for a year and a half now and its been the most straightfoward case ive owned would happily buy a higher end case from them.

It's great that you are willing to give "no name" brands a chance and give honest reviews. I find myself sometimes wondering where the reviews are for certain items I find on Amazon only to realize no one reviewed them because they are from a no name brand.

I love when jay is sensible!!! Funny yet sensible commentary! More Vids like this Jay!

Got some real Home Shopping Network vibes at the reveal of the price on the Max. I really like what Montech is doing in the budget space, I just wish they'd make a knockoff version of the Fractal Pop Air (or just something with a 5.25" bay)

After comparing everything at Microcenter within our budget, my son and I went with the Montech. It came with fans, glass windows and everything you expect to get. He is very happy with it.

9:35 You could also do it with a radiator and a FLIR camera, showing the "hot spot" on the radiator, where the fan motor and frame are against the rad. Then when the fans are air gapped, showing how that becomes evenly cooled in the FLIR image.

Bought a Montech from a previous video Jay did & I love it.

well found the case my kids pc will be using, thanks Jay!

I picked up the Montech Sky Two a few months ago for under $100 in black, it looks fantastic! everybody who has seen it asks what case it is, it runs my pc nice and cool, all air cooled the cpu and GFX card both idle around 34c in there and it's super quite with the included fans. A little bit tight for cable managment but apart from that it was the easiest case I have ever built in. Strong 9/10 in my opinion.

Montech has been an absolute must for PC flipping. Most bang for your buck cases around.

13:29 got me with the gazer hold. Brutal Jay! Keep up the great videos

Good for them. Looks like they have a good product.

Great video! Tons of options for not a lot of money. Feeling inspired ✨️ 😌

i have recently built my new pc setup and am using the montech Sky Two but the Moroccan Blue colour and its a solid case. No complaints at all so far.

5:14 no Jay, if you put the controls right above the top on the Temporary Glass side then you will have wires in the way. Better they are off on the back side than on show off the glass side.

Glad to see montech step up and make affordable cases, I've used 2 previously and they weren't as feature rich.

Great video Jay, really enjoyed it, thank you.

I just built a system in a Montech Air 1000 Silent. And just wow! I was looking for a great case with dustfilter and included fans for a powerful workstation. I will buy this one myself when I will retire my 8 3,5" hdds. It was fun to build in. Im just here to look for other Montech cases.

I couldn't agree more, I've used the Montech sky two 5 times, just can't be beat on price to features. The big brands could learn a thing or two!

We need more products like this

Nice! I've been rocking the same Corsair case since 2008, and when I upgraded last year I left the case off the list because of cost. It's fine, but there's no room for cable management, has 5 DVD drive bays that I don't use, and no room for a water cooling setup. I might have to pick one of these up to support a brand that is providing a well-thought-out product at a budget-friendly price!

I really enjoyed this video. Relaxing.

Bought this Montech case for my secondary computer. Love it except for that the LED button is hardwired to the reset cable. So now I can reset it with either button.

Oh I'd absolutely buy that white one. Fantastic find, Jay & team, thanks for sharing.

I will definitely consider this case for my next budget build, but I really wish case manufacturers would stop with the 1 non-rgb fan in the back of the case, especially when you have glass side panels. That is more visible than the front fans sometimes.

Thanks for this!

Montech is killing it. I recommend their cases to anyone I know who wants to build a rig under a thousand.

That case looks pretty nice, especially for the price. I wish it was available when I built this pc, I would have gotten it any day over the nzxt h510i I went with at the time which cost more.

I learn something new in almost every Jay video. :D

I've always wanted a similar version of that case which was the air 900 mesh (argb), it was an amazing budget case but for some reason it stopped selling basically everywhere about one or two years ago (ofc I wasn't able to get one on time) and now I'm thinking of buying this 903 to replace my current Corsair x465 which isn't so airflow optimized

I've built in quite a few Montech cases. I've always said they're good bang for buck cases. Def recommend!

Should definitely do a quick simple build in it to see if it has any significant drawbacks...as you say looking at an empty case is only a little bit of the story, have to build in it and see how it performs with a system respective of the price category

Im actually using a montech case at the moment 😅 love your videos Jay watching you from Zambia 🇿🇲

I've been happy with the quality of the Montech Sky Two. They're my go to brand for cases now due to quality vs price

Im really looking forward to the Montech Sky 3 case.

This would certainly make my top 5 for budget build chassis

Bought a $45 Montech mid-tower at Microcenter last week w/ the 5600X3D bundle. Feels a little flimsy and all the fans included were Molex that need to be replaced eventually, but other than that, I really like it, especially for the price.

I went with a Jonsbo D41 mesh version for $65, it's a great case and has a uniqe PSU installation, it doesn't come with any fans though. It can come with a display at the top front, which is probably the biggest display you can get at the $120 point.

Ordered the white Max. I currently have a NZXT H510 and it worked fine (even with the very poor air inlets) for a RTX2070. Upgraded to a RTX3080 and had to remove the glass panel to get enough air.

Wow! That's a pretty solid case for the price. Good on Montech (again!).

I've used two of these so far, fans go out in about 3 to 4 months on both. Besides that pretty decent case

Great review.I really like that case.

Ok now im sure i need this lian li 011d takes up so much space

Bravo Montech absolutely gorgeous towers for absolutely stunning prices as a UK guy I'm 100% down for this company to strive.

Dude I got a Montech case 3 years ago and it's great for the price. In fact after I got it I commented about it on a video from either your channel or Gamers Nexus cause nobody seemed to be talking about Montech back then.

thanks for this affordable review

I just picked up a Phanteks G500A-fanless edition for my build but this Montech looks really good.

The 903 Max seems like a great option. I do wish that the width on the backplate side was another quarter inch, but for under $80 for the entire series that's a minor gripe/wish.

Awsome buildbrother

....honestly, USB C on a $65 case is impressive enough. That $75 full fan setup, alone, without RGB control? Impressive for the price.

Length of the card vs the case is perfect to make some brackets to hold the card at the front.

I got a clear montech case that looks amazing clear on the side and front with fans on the opposite side instead of having them in the front

FOr me, the top buttons are on the proper side. I would set the case to the left of my monitor so the glass side is facing out, leaving the top connections to the right. This allows any cables to hang "hidden" from view.

I appreciate you having your eyes on the tech horizon for us...

ive only ever built in a couple montech cases, but they are always really nice and look good too. Easy to work in as well. Too many people get caught up with the "big brand" names and some of these lesser known/smaller companies makes some really good stuff for good prices.

Montech is killing the game! I bought the Montech X3 a while back, and it came with 7 fans!!! SEVEN! And the case was like maybe $80. It's killer!

I enjoyed this video Jay ❤

Looks good. I've reviewed some cases in the past from aerocool which are very similar in terms of what you get for the money.

Awesome. Love seeing lower cost quality parts.

5:31 u connect that to ur RGB hub, some hubs have 2pin LED headers that u connect these to. Then you can control those hubs by clicking that LED button on ur case, but not all hubs have that 2pin LED header, the ones that do can and should and will be controlled by that LED button.