Let us start with the good first: the Antec ISK 600 is a clean chassis, which would look good in many different scenarios, ranging from the HTPC, a Gaming PC, or a work station on the desk at an office. Its overall construction is also quite good for a case of this price segment. Those with lots of storage requirements will be happy to hear that you can stuff four HDDs into the case, even with a large graphics cards, but only with a compact CPU cooler or if you go straight for liquid cooling. Assembling your PC is also painless since you can take out individual drive cages and the interior is readily accessible. You will also have to watch the length of your PSU with a long graphics card, which is usually why you would want a bit more power. This could cause problems for those looking to stuff crazily high-end graphics cards into the chassis to then realize that a PSU with enough power throughput may not be short enough. Granted, this is a fairly unlikely scenario, and the high efficiency of modern PSUs really helps with the choices you do have, but we had to mention it nonetheless.

What is really bothersome, though, is essentially a part of the front panel. Antec equips the chassis with a bare-bone set of USB I/O, with one plug of each generation, even going as far as to offer the right cables within the chassis for two USB 3.0 ports to be used with either the 3rd- or 2nd-generation headers. Another design flaw are the identical Power and Reset buttons, which have been placed next to each other. While their symmetrical design does look good, it is not very user friendly.

The Antec ISK 600 ultimately is a nice Mini-ITX chassis with an understated look, but it has to go up against other compact ITX cases, like the Cooler Master Elite 130 or Silverstone Sugo SG08 Lite, which cost around the same amount or less, but come with dual USB 3.0 ports and an otherwise similar feature set, which, given such tempting choices, makes it hard to recommend the ISK 600.