# How is This So Cheap in This Economy?? ## Метаданные - **Канал:** JayzTwoCents - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZD7MP2EXNM - **Дата:** 18.05.2026 - **Длительность:** 28:09 - **Просмотры:** 94,861 - **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/51810 ## Описание The Montech TEN might be one of the most surprising budget PC cases I’ve looked at in a long time. For just $69, you get impressive build quality, great airflow, and a surprisingly modular design. 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Yes, I know I haven't finished the other build. It's over there, okay? I'm working on it. A lot of other things have gotten in the way. I am sorry for that. I think it's going to be worth the wait. It's turning out pretty dang good. Anyway, with that said, we're going to take a look at the 10, which is basically it's a convertible case, which is kind of like the norm these days, but I'm going to start with the price first because that's backwards, but so is the whole concept of how much things should cost versus what they really cost. And this comes in at $69. Nice. Look, one of the things that we love about Montech, especially when we very first discovered them at Micro Center. Now, they've been around 10 years, obviously. It's a 10-year anniversary. Is their price-to-performance. They've just Remember like the early days when it said more value or extra value? Yeah, with great value. They had so many little things. Um, they've truly really just made us look at cases differently because of the fact that so many companies want to charge so much money for their stamped steel, right? And powder coated it black. But, um, this is kind of unique because it's them sort of getting into the more smaller form factor stuff. Now, it's 28 L. It's not super tiny. What I'm starting to say is that they just completely are changing the way you should think about cases. Now, Oh, a little shocker there. Here's the thing with cases right now. I'm seeing more and more people say, "Well, components really suck in pricing. " They do. RAM, storage, going to get worse, guys. I'm sorry. Soared flat for a while and now apparently Q3 is expecting another jump, which is so stupid. Anyway, I'm seeing a lot of people say, "Well, I want to upgrade. I kind of don't like my case. I'm looking at cases now. So, I feel like cases are kind of becoming a little bit more popular again simply because of the fact that if you maybe cheaped out on your case when you did your build, which is I the way I would do it, honestly. I would say, "Okay, get the cheapest case you can afford that can fit your components and not choke them to death with airflow, and then later on get yourself a nice case to put your nice components in rather than having a really nice case with cheap components. " Um but you can see right here with the form factor of this guy, it's pretty nice. It's not big. Every single side of it is mesh. I love it. It's like everyone took the whole, "Fine, we get it. You want mesh. We hear you. Dang it, we'll give you all the mesh. " They're like, "Now if it's too much mesh and you complain, what the hell do you want from us, right? " Okay, so tear down. It's tool-less. You can see the top right here has this little frame on there. This is not going to really affect airflow. Um it's just nice support that way you're not getting the bowing of the mesh. I've seen people not like go full mesh like this and not support the middle of it and then you get this ugly bow or twist. Um look at the nice brushed Is that real metal? That is real metal, Phil. That is brushed metal with like chamfered polished edges, which look really, really nice. Cuz one of the things they're going for with this case is a smaller form factor like this could live in a living room or obviously a bedroom or computer room or whatever, but it doesn't have a utilitarian feel to it. It's utilitarian with form as well. So, a lot of times companies will go, "Oh, our super cheap cases will just be, you know, completely function over form and then not look pretty in their space. " But this obviously does. You can see the mat like finish right here on the steel. It's really nice. Again, full mesh. Porosity, have no way to measure that. It looks like it could be about 50%, but I'm just guessing. Um everything also is You can fully tear this case down. There is not a single riveted frame piece. Now, there are pieces that are riveted together say on the motherboard tray and such, but everything on here as you can see on the top of the screws is you can tear this down to a flat all flat pieces, which is cool if you want to paint it or do something custom to it so that you can you know get it to more fit in your aesthetics or your custom uh theming if you want. Now, it does support up to 360 AIO as you can see right here. For air coolers it fits up to 155 mm in the M1 or M2 position cuz I think I mentioned already, maybe I didn't, but this is a convertible chassis. — [snorts] — It supports mini ITX and micro ATX. It is not an ITX or an ATX board, which is kind of surprising given the fact that it's 28 L. Again, that's not super tiny, but it's also not really big. A lot of cases these days are in the 50 L, 60 L range. Um so, this is more designed to be a smaller footprint type of case. Now, it has three different motherboard positions that lead to nine different power supply positions including SFX and ATX power supplies and seven different GPU positions across those three configurations. So, it is a smaller form factor case that allows you to really sort of customize the internals for how you want them. Now, we got a pretty thick box right here. How do we get this sucker out? Do I have to zip tied in? So, to get the accessory box out it looks like I have to take off this side piece here uh which is a another fan mount potentially AIO mount, I guess, because that box does not actually fit through any of the openings. I want to see what comes in the accessories. We have here some brackets, a GPU support, an extra rubber thingy. They give you a lot of Velcro straps. And they're not branded, which is kind of cool. I kind of hate when they put it that's on that side, which is fine, but I kind of it's like not really in your face. I hate when it's just like if it were like Montech Montech like that it takes away the cleanliness, if you will. A PSU bracket, couple extra clips that go in the metal pieces for the side panels, few traditional zip ties. Looks like we have some extra screws for cases. Wow. We have rubber grommets for hard drive mounts, extra case screws, stand-off adapter, some of these very bespoke looking adapters. I've no idea what they are. I'll look into that. And then even more stand-offs — and like M3 screws. So, they give you a lot of extras. You have ### Parts Fitment [6:23] two different mounts for GPU. You've got here, there's also a fan right there. It's a 92-mm fan. It's the only fan that's included in this build. And then you have a more horizontal style GPU mount right there. Front panel connectivity. Bet you it's a unified front panel. Nope, it's HD audio. This. So, it's not technically unified as much as they are individual, but they have this little clip that's holding them all together in their proper position. So, that's kind of nice. USB-C, USB 3. Um and then our one fan header right here for the 92-mil exhaust fan in the back. And then our power supply extension cable, because obviously the power supply is mounted internally without the plug facing the rear. And then the one that's pre-installed for the power supply adapter, as you can see, is the SFX power supply. If you are not going with an SFX build or an ITX build in this mini ITX, I would probably not run the SFX power supply just because of its price. Like SFX high watts is more expensive than ATX high watt. But, as soon as you change this adapter out, uh you're going to definitely now have a lot longer cables than you really need. Okay, so I tested this with our ### Example Parts Installed [7:36] NX600 cooler, but there's a bit of flex in the back wall. Just want to point that Look, as I move the cooler, I mean, it's not a lot, but it's not really supported on the top, which is kind of why it's doing that. But, anyway, if you look at it down the side, you can see like, "Uh-oh, is their own cooler going to fit in their case? " And the answer is yes, cuz it's a 160 mm cooler, but this is a 155 mm clearance in the case. However, it does clear just fine without actually even touching the side panel. Now, the reason why it's they say 155 is if you're going to use the side fan mount, it doesn't fit cuz it hits the cooler before it can tab in. But, this is really like perfect for the AIO configuration, cuz what you can do is you can mount the AIO on the top. Obviously, you're only going to have a small profile pump taking, you know, taking up space in this area. So, this whole chunk of cooler will be gone, and then you could have fans blowing in cool air to get right to the CPU cooler as well. That way it's not just hot air from the GPU making its way to the AIO. Or, you could flip it and have them be intakes if you wanted, and this could be exhaust if you wanted. So, it just kind of makes an L-shape on the flow. So, you have a lot of flexibility on how you'd want to do that. Now, let's talk about GPU clearance real quick. Um for GPU, it does say in different orientations it has different cooler lengths that are supported. But, as we know, cooler length is only half of the story. So, for instance, if I look at and I've got to go ahead and take off these covers anyway here. Now, this is the standard orientation. To be honest, I I'm not going to demonstrate the ITX orientation for a couple of reasons. One, uh I don't personally feel like I would use this case for an ITX build. I really don't. Uh it's not going to the ITX location for the um GPU doesn't change. It could potentially come up one slot, which could help get big fat GPUs in here, but I think that this is just going to be better suited for an mATX build. As I put in a standard size card, like this is I say standard size, this is really big. But it's a big card versus like the old days, but it's a small card versus like today's standard, right? It's really weird to say that, but that's the way that it is. So anyway, that is a 5090 that's in there. 5080 would be the same size. 5070 is even smaller, obviously. Um so there is room with this motherboard to be able to get my finger down in there to do the retention release slot. Motherboards that maybe don't have this m. 2 slot right here, which is very rare these days. This is m. 2 slot right here. Could push that up tighter, which would mean if you don't have a motherboard with a push button release in the back and you have to do this tab release right here, depending on your cooler, you may not get access to that. That's true That's a motherboard problem, not a case problem. Just want to point that out right now. Did it just break? What? — The tab. Oh, yeah. I think it just popped off. I hate these tabs for that very reason. Like it's not broken, it just un like clipped itself. Now the problem is no longer existent because it would just pop itself up. This is ASUS's lower end board from back in the day a bit. Okay, speaking of tough, um I just grabbed a large GPU off the shelf. And now I need to see if this is going to fit. Because of the motherboard orientation, a big jeez, a big Forgot how heavy they were. A big fat GPU may not fit cuz that's also why I pointed out that slot location. Like to get that top slot moved up one would be ideal. But then you have the release problem that I just mentioned. And something else it actually said to do Oh, and the feet do just pop off. So you could literally invert the thing now if you wanted. So, that's technically inverted. And then, that's not inverted. It's just that simple. Symmetry, imagine that. So, you can see right now by putting the big GPU down here, we're going to lose access to our top fans. So, I am going to Well, it depends on where you put the feet. So, that's what I was just going to say. Top / bottom. This would be a normal, traditional, right side right orientation, right? Case is on your right. There's no glass, so it doesn't really matter which orientation you put it, cuz although the mesh they do call a visual mesh, that you can see lights inside cuz holes, that's how holes work, but it doesn't matter if you put it on your right or left side technically, because it's just going to be mesh everywhere. So, that is that would be your traditional layout, which would mean you could have intake fans on the bottom, and then you could have exhaust fans on the top, since you can't use the side bracket here. If you do go with an AIO, you could have intake fans on the bottom, intake fans on the side, and you could have exhaust fans on the top for your cooler if you wanted to do it that way. But, almost every GPU you install kind of blocks down here. Now, this is only there because if you invert it, then it suddenly becomes like, you know, upside down. With that ### Large GPU Fitment [12:53] said, I'm just curious, will it fit the top? Yeah, I don't There we go. Cuz what's happening right here is the card, the corner, before I can get it seated into the slot is hitting right here. And this is where screwed-in components are very nice, cuz now I might be able to put this in first. So, now the GPU is literally threaded in there. And because that's a recessed power plug, I we'll have enough slack on it. Okay, so you can see I sort of threaded the card in, but it's still a little too fat. It's hitting on the bracket right there. Which means we can't get it to lean over enough to line up the hold down holes right there. If this were a board that had the slot one slot higher, it would work. So, whether or not a big card like this will fit in this case is truly going to be dependent on the motherboard. So, if the motherboard has a top M. 2 slot, which like 99% of them do now, cuz they want to get it closer to the CPU for direct lanes, then it will not work. Um but for all seven of you that can afford a 5090 or a 4090 type card or big old 5080, then uh you're going to have some compatibility issues. For the rest of the world, it's probably not going to be a problem. ### PSU Size Considerations [14:23] But, what I wanted to say is earlier I said SFX power supplies are more expensive per watt, but in a chassis like this, it might make sense because if you go with a bigger ATX power supply, it's going to the cables and stuff that come off are going to incur in this area down here, which means if you have a really long GPU, now you could have a problem. So, if I stick the 5090 FE back up to it a little bit, you know, representing what all of you clearly have, you can see the back of the graphics card overhangs where the bottom of the power supply cables will come out. So, SFX power supplies might be your best option for cable management. And uh and here's the thing. SFX used to have a huge um caveat with them where, okay, you can they're super small, but they cap out at like 600 watts. Now, you can get 1200 watt SFX power supplies now. They're expensive, but you can get them. Because the moment we change the bracket out, and I'll go ahead and do that real quick, cuz this is important. I want to make sure I'm not showing this going, "Look at all the stuff you can fit. " because this is why we put hardware in there. So, you can see the three holes, right there. So, you have one, two, three positions where you can move it down slightly. You might want to move it down so you have a little bit more clearance for an AIO up here. For AIO, you need to account for about 60 mm of clearance because you have 30 mil thickness for the radiator, you get 55 mil, and 25 mm for the fans, usually. Some AIOs now are coming with 28 mm fans and maybe even 30 mm fans because they I give them a more aggressive blade pitch, which really helps with static pressure to pull air through the resistance of all those fins. So, you would want to put the bracket in the lowest position. Let's see what we get now with the ATX bracket. So, you can see now this is going to clearly take up a bit more room in there. It's not even in there straight. Looks good to me. There we go. So, that's the lowest position right there, which you would need to put it in for AIO. Or if you were doing air cooler config like we are right here, put it in the highest position possible to give yourself the most GPU clearance. But again, if I hold the PSU or the GPU up to the build, you can see you're not going to have a lot of room before you potentially hit the bottom of the GPU with fan with the cables. Uh and that's a pretty standard size power supply that you would put right there. Like if you use a long one, you can't use a long GPU. So, then it kind of makes the 28 L in this not seem very big anymore. So, that's why I'm saying it might be prudent if you were buying components from scratch for this to run an SFX power supply. Otherwise, if you're running ATX, just know big boy GPUs are going to potentially have a conflict with the power supply. Now, let's talk about inverting it. So ### Inverted Mode + Vertical GPU [17:11] following along with the manual here, it does say and I need to take off the feet. I'll do this with a bill. I need to take off this front panel here and flip it over. And this position I'm putting it in technically called liquid master. The first one's called airflow specialist, the second M2 position, which is also inverted, is called liquid master for like ultimate AIO compatibility. We're going to see what happens right now when I do it with the air cooler in there. Now, if you wanted like I showed, you could literally just have the GPU in here inverted like this. If you wanted, you could probably even still run a fan back here. Um Yeah, probably not. But if you aren't going to run that with fans in the bottom pulling air down, which I guess you could push you pull air up and have the GP pulling air down and just be a weird conflict of airflow. You could do that if you don't want to run it the way we're about to show you. But because it's liquid master, now the GPU is intended to use these vertical mounts. Now, here's the thing. This is now why this is going to be super important because it's going to be a floppy tooth because uh unless you have a riser cable, which it doesn't come with, riser cable must be optional. Let me find out because I just realized that. How are you going to slot that into the It doesn't come with a riser cable. Okay, so this is liquid master position. It recommends a riser cable of 250 mm. Um obviously doesn't come with one. They're not perfectly lined up, although they kind of you could might be able to even find a rigid one that would be nice to give that some support. But now we're going to talk about the GPU support thing here. So, this you have a little bit of adjustability in there and how far apart that can go. Now, in this instance, we don't have enough height to like sandwich on the card. So, what we're going to do here is I'm going to undo this screw. They even show this in the manual, too. I can slide the top out. Put this back on. Keep it sort of loose. This just attaches It hooks under the rail like that. Can I get on there? Get on there. There we go. And it can slide along this rail. And what it allows us to do now is if I was to hook this up underneath the GPU, the pressure of the GPU pushing down on it will hold it in place. It won't fall out. It's not the most ideal scenario, but it's better than nothing, I guess. If you were traveling, this is not a good idea to travel with it like this. Like this is not a good like LAN build, if you would. See, I can't get that to be super solid, but at least we have for it sitting still on your desk, another level of support. I don't like this system that much, but it is what it is, right? For sitting still on your desk, that's perfectly fine. Doesn't interfere with anything. You can see I've got the power supply bracket in there, the full ATX one. Now you actually have plenty of room, not to really worry about the amount of um cable space you have. Plenty of clearance for up top. the AIO. In fact, we could even still I don't I wouldn't recommend this, but maybe I would just for support of the side panel. Now we can get this guy back in here. And that would just give us some more rigidity on the side of the case. There's not enough room in the position that I currently have it in for fans between the GPU, but now if I were to move it back one more slot, I still think there's a fair amount of space. I think even if I went back one more, there's potential interference though on hitting the power supply bracket. So that means I can't fit fans right here blowing directly on the GPU, but I don't think that's truly necessary, to be honest. But now we have some more rigidity support on the side here. Plenty of room for our AIO technically below the motherboard. And then um yeah, so that would be liquid cooler position. I'm not going to show you the ITX position cuz like I don't have an ITX board to even be able to show you. Now you can run an AIO in the traditional configuration, too. It's just this right here I think might be better for your GPU. It's definitely pulling air from the side. Um super thick GPU is not going to fit in this orientation. Again, just to show you simply because of how close the power supply bracket is to the GPU. If you run the SFX, maybe, but I still like you're just going to have to stick to standard size GPUs as far as I'm concerned. They show the Strix card in their manual, um but I think it just starts to get a bit cluttered. Just like this desk right now messing with all of this. So remember I took the front panel connectors off in the whole board there um to get the wires out of the way, but for the inversion process you saw I flipped this front panel over because we have to get the buttons back on top, otherwise they would have still been down here which don't do you a lot of good. It's really hard to plug in a USB port when it's down at the bottom facing the table. You also want to make sure the orientation is correct because you could technically flip it the other way and have the 3 1/2 mm jack over here, which won't work with the top panel cuz as you can see they need to line up with their corresponding holes. So now that lines up There we go. That's in there. Um this is the new front panel. Right. Yep. That. See, side panel has a hook on one side. So it's got this hook right here. It does have a top and bottom orientation. That's the bottom. The little mushroom tabs are on the top. Like that. And then the last side panel. This is what I was saying, it doesn't really matter if you invert it cuz you're like, "I want to see my stuff. " Now, you're going to see any lighting through this, but you're not going to clearly see your components. So, whether it's left side or right side, doesn't really matter. Now you can see there's our box. Our box of stuff. So, now technically it's oriented left. You could technically see any lights through there, but again, the mesh blocks so much it doesn't really matter. Like, it's a lot of work to flip it unless you wanted to go with the vertical GPU orientation, which again I highly like. Come on. I really like the GPU in the more oriented fashion like this, that way it's getting fresh air from the side panel rather than pulling it up through the bottom where there's going to be more resistance because of the dust filter, which is just magnetic, by the way. If you wanted to take that off, you can. Then you got really big mesh flow through. Either way, I don't think your components are going to be choked off in this. Now, ITX, like I said, I don't ### ITX Dual Chamber Mode [23:58] have an ITX board to show you. Um it's a little bit different here. So, you see these holes right here. There's two holes right there. So, what will happen is on the motherboard tray this piece right here, you'll mount the PSU box to here and put the SFX power supply in there. You'll remove this piece. This piece comes off, and then this whole tray basically flips this way. So, instead of the back of this motherboard tray being like this, the front will face that way. And then it will mount to these screws right here, which will then take the motherboard instead of facing that way, like that direction, it'll flip and face that direction and put it more in the center of the case. And then it turns into a dual chamber. So, the GPU will be on one side and the motherboard's on the other side. And it also drops it down to about 55 mm of CPU clearance for height, so you can run a low-profile CPU cooler, which would be really silly in a 28-liter chamber or case. Um but more importantly, you can run 360 AIO with that. Um wish I had a motherboard that I could do that with to show you. Um, but anyway, it is something that they thought of when it comes to ITX. I still think this is a good If you could fit mATX in here, why wouldn't you? I mean, it's better cooling for the motherboard, it's better layout, easier cable management. I would just run mATX versus mini ITX with this. One last thing I want to talk about real quick before we get out of here. These guys. It was like, "What the heck are these guys? " These are 10 mm offset brackets. You'll notice right now it can support 140s and 120s, right? Um, if for some reason you needed to offset it, you can literally put that there in there like that to offset an additional 10 mm. So, you might be like, "But there's two rails. What What's the deal? " Is because one's for 140 and one's 120, these are not 20 mm of offset. You need an additional 10. So, that's what these brackets come in for. So, you might think you can just go from here to there. Oh, wait a minute. You can't, right? So, if I use this fan as an example, you can see if I wanted to offset it like this, you use these brackets right here, these offset brackets. So, yeah, I saw those in the beginning when I was unboxing all the components. I'm like, "What the heck are these? " Right? Even with this, those three right now. So, yeah, that's kind of neat the way they came up with these brackets. This is something they obviously identified they need to fix and support. And there it is. So, now you can offset the 120. I have a feeling this was something they realized later during practical testing. Like, "Oh man, we should have had a third rail. " And it was a lot cheaper tooling-wise probably to have these little brackets cut and bent than [snorts] it is to have this whole piece. Because remember, these pieces are like symmetrical. They're like the same kind of all over. So, now you've got that bracket offsetted and we're good to go. ### Wrap-up [26:46] All right. Well, there you go. That is the Montech 10 commemorating the 10-year anniversary of Montech, everything you just saw is $69. So, you got to ask yourself, how's Montech doing it so cheap? Or, why are the other guys doing it for so much more? Thanks for watching today's video. If you're new around here, why don't you go and hit that sub button? I know things kind of stink right now, but we're going to be talking about a lot of stuff that I think is still relevant to people, especially if you have existing PCs that are aging, ways to keep your PC feeling, you know, newer longer, um optimization settings, just try to get the most out of what you currently have because most people have been priced out of upgrading. So, I think that's important topics for us to talk about. The genre is not dead. It's just being like beaten up right now. It's like I just got in the ring with freaking Eddie Hall and I don't stand a chance, but I'm sure as hell going to go down fighting, right? So, same thing for you guys. It's like the market sucks, but we're going to do what we can to at least show you guys content that is relevant to you in some way. And cases right now seem to be a topic a lot of people are bringing up and talking about because they're like, "Well, I can't upgrade anything else, but I can at least put a new box put everything in a new box to make it feel new. " And why overspend for that box? All right, guys. Links are down in the description below. Thanks to Montech for sending this over for us to take a look at, and as always, we'll see you guys in the next one.