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Beta 920B L24 24mm Square Drive Long Series Hand Socket with Bi-Hexagon Ends
$33.15
The Ciceri family began producing tools in Northern Italy in the 1880s. Today, family owned Beta, or Beta Utensili is known for its direct involvement in Grand Prix racing, a relationship that dates back to the early 1970s.

NZXT Beta Classic Series CS-NT-Beta-B Steel Chassis Midtower - No Power (Black)
$49.99
While I've only had this case a few days, I'm confident that this case is going to be in use for a long time.

There's plenty of space to route your power cables behind the motherboard via an extra-wide mount for the power supply. It left enough room to route all my cables. The space between the case support rails and the cover left enough space to flatten out the rounded cables from my Thermaltake power supply.

Just make sure you install the power supply first, route the cables, then install your optical drives and hard drives. THEN install the motherboard and adapters. Otherwise you'll be stuck trying to route the power cables behind the motherboard, which is nearly impossible.

The mesh front allows for ample cooling and having the colored fan looks great (although I replaced mine with a red LED.) If you have experience with some of the Coolermaster cases, the mesh is similar.

As the other reviewer mentioned, the case comes with enough screws and tool-less adapters for optical drives and hard drives. Installation is simple and quick.

The case has mount points for ATX, MiniATX and MicroATX, all of which are labeled. I can tell you that my ECS GeForce6100PM-M2 motherboard fits perfectly.

The only negative things I can mention are the lack of a black back plane cover and the fact that there's an internal 3.5" bay but no way of accessing it through the front of the case. So if you have a 3.5" card reader, you're going to need an adapter for the 5.25" bay or buy the Vantec UGT-CR905 58-In-1 Internal Card Reader sold by Amazon for less than $20.

I've owned quite a few cases over the last 10 years and this one is going to be in my use for years.


Despite the minor negatives, I think my 5 star rating is well-earned.

Beta 920B L17 17mm Square Drive Long Series Hand Socket with Bi-Hexagon Ends
$23.14
The Ciceri family began producing tools in Northern Italy in the 1880s. Today, family owned Beta, or Beta Utensili is known for its direct involvement in Grand Prix racing, a relationship that dates back to the early 1970s.

Shure Beta 58A Supercardioid Dynamic Microphone
$300.40
The Shure Beta 58A is a road-ready, industry standard for live performance mics.

Known for it's bright BRIGHT, clarion sound, it is an easier mic to work with,
from a live sound engineer's perspective, than the popular,
but more problematic (feedback-wise) Shure SM58.
Being SUPERcardiod, the Beta58A has a tighter/closer pickup-pattern,
and so is less prone to feedback---You just sing closer
to a supercardiod mic than a cardioid--Sometimes, almost, or maybe even lightly, touching the mic.

Any engineer will tell you that the extra-brightness of the Beta 58A mic gives you
better sound to work with at the board---It is simple to "darken" a too-bright sound with
a little EQ. But a "too-dark" sound is definitely harder to brighten with EQ
or any engineering manipulation.

For recording, the Beta 58A is OK, mainly for beginners, as a vocal mic.

For advanced/pro recording use, it is good mainly on electric guitar cabs
and some percussion.

And, it is a durable mic, for sure.