Test System

Assembly

Installing the motherboard is done by traditional means, with spacers and screws. As you can see, there is barely any room around the edges, but you should still be able to get to all the important connections well. Also, as the Fighter 600 is so short, really long GPUs could get in the way of a thin radiator, but the Palit GeForce RTX 2080 still fits just fine.


Adding an SSD using the tray is definitely the easiest way, as you may secure the SSD outside of the confines of the case. Once the tray is filled, simply put it back into place and secure it with the thumb screw.


Installing a drive in the trench, as I call it, means you have to get to the screw holes through the interior. If you have a radiator installed, you will not be able to reach two of the four holes for each of the drives.


To add 3.5" drives, pull the whole tray out and utilize classic screws to hold the drive in place. The connectors of the drive line up with the cage nicely—plugging in the SATA data and power cables should work well.


Adding a PSU underneath the shroud is pretty straightforward, and while the Fractal Design unit fits just fine, you won't be able to put in an extra-long variant. That having been said, the target audience for the Fighter 600 will be perfectly happy with a solid 650 or 750 W unit, which will easily find room.


With everything installed, the interior does not really look as clean as with other cases. This is due to SSD spots getting in the way of some of the cable-routing when filled, and the fact that the audio cord needs to run all the way across the bottom edge of the board, which is a little unfortunate because it clashes with the very clean windowed panel a little bit.

Finished Looks

Once turned on, the LEDs in the fans also turn on in their fixed color configuration. As you can see, the rear fan lights up differently from those in the front, which is unfortunate. At this point, I would have rather seen LED fans of a single color, maybe white instead, but that is subjective. A small blue LED in the aluminium strip lights up to let you know the system is up and running.


On the upside, the fans in the front line up well with both the mesh and the Montech logo, while the clear and clean side panel will easily show off all your parts inside as well. In the rear, everything is where you would expect it to be in a modern PC case.