Itek Spacebox Computer Tower

This is a review of the iTek Spacebox Ultracube Chassis. I ordered from Amazon Italy as it was cheaper than through Amazon UK. Delivery was quick – about a week. I am a recent convert to dual chamber cases and needed a cheap version to house a lot of components I was reusing from older PC’s. The Spacebox was the cheapest mATX dual chamber case that I could find.The case itself is very compact. It has the usual thumb screws to remove the sides and you can prise off the front. There are no fans included. There are USB2 and USB3 connectors at the front together with audio. Other than the front, which is plastic, the case is black metal, inside and out.I attached a 90mm fan as exhaust to the rear of the case and managed to install a 240mm Corsair water cooler (2 x 120mm fans) to the front of the case as intake. According to specifications, the watercooler should not have fitted. Indeed, the mounting holes at the front were in the wrong place for a radiator. However, careful use of a Dremel allowed the holes to be located correctly and the radiator could be installed with about 0.5cm to spare.There is no rear cutout for the processor and so you have to install before inserting the motherboard. The case takes a standard ATX PSU, has mounting spaces for a 2.5” drive and a 3.5” drive. There are adequate cable channels between the chambers to allow a neat build. One thing to watch out for – although there is a 5.25” front DVD Drive bay, you will only be able to use this if you have a very short PSU. My PSU was 16” and would not allow the DVDRW drive to be installed without pressing up hard against the PSU cables. There is reasonable space for a graphics card although I compromised that by installation of the front radiator and fans. Even so, it could comfortably take the HD6770 card that I installed.Ultimately, the dual chamber design meant that I ended up with a very neat build in a highly compact chassis. The build quality was better than you might expect for the price and I had no problems working with the space available. I had spare fans lying around which kept the price down. Even so, it is still a very cheap option if you want an mATX dual chamber case on a budget.