The Fractal Design Node 605 is a beautiful case - perfect for its intended audience. It does cost a tad bit more than similarly shaped HTPC cases with a card reader and USB 3.0, but it uses a modern, timeless design and has excellent cooling possibilities with included dust filters. This readily justifies the price for a case of such a format. There are two aspects you need to watch if you buy the case: maximum PSU length and maximum GPU length. Both of these aspects have an effect on how many hard drives you may install into the chassis. Only if both parts are short enough can four drives easily be placed within the Node 605. That is the only real drawback of this fairly compact chassis.
It still offers crazy amounts of cooling possibilities for an HTPC chassis while also including everything you may want from a home theater system besides a built-in display. But the benefit of such a compact interior shows: the Fractal Design Node 605 is one of the shortest HTPC cases of such a format by clocking in with a depth of just 349 mm - a depth identical to most Amps and HT Receivers out there. The front cover is made of thick aluminum, just like you would expect of such a chassis, and the flip-down cover hides all of its ugly connectors and drives, which makes the case look quite spiffy in an HTPC rack.