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FSP CUT593 Premium Edition

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The FSP CUT953P may look like an ordinary ATX mid-tower chassis but features a unique cable management system for the ATX as well as CPU power leads, by embedding these into the backside of the chassis. With such a cool feature, we dive in to see if the case provides a solid build experience as well.

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Soft curves on this case looks really nice. But damn they messed up everything else.
 
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Seems like a fairly basic case that's had a lot of surgery and not all of worked.

I like the fact that the side panels are hinged at the back and there are no bolts protruding from the glass, but I don't like that there are clearly still cutouts in the chassis for steel side panels and these don't engage with the glass so it's just a couple of weak magnets holding the door shut. Those cutouts are the weak point in an already weakened chassis since none of the bolt on plastic is helping the rigidity, the side panels aren't even structurally attached, they just rest against the frame with magnets, and there's zero reinforcement from the absent recess that stiffens up the rear panel or front drive bays that used to provide a ton of additional rigidity to this kind of chassis tooling.

The custom wiring extensions look nice but create several more problems with PSU compatibility, drive bays, other cable routing, and additionally require you to purchase a white GPU power extension seperately otherwise what's the point in half-assing the aesthetics for all those downsides?

The rear panel is a single punched sheet of that horrible, cheap, flimsy design that used to be the realm of ultra-budget cases costing $50 or less. At least they're not snap-off slot covers but this general design lacks structural rigidity for heavier GPUs and I/O shields that have stronger sprung tabs or foil-backed foam that needs to be compressed. The end result is usually just that this entire panel flexes out of the way instead, misaligning the GPU retention tabs by a few mm.

Not including any kind of PWM or RGBLED hub at $150-160 is disappointing because they're cheap for manufacturers to source and expensive for end users to buy separately. It means that this case is competing at closer to $180-190 against cases that have a fan hub included, and that just hurts its already poor value even more.

Finally, the plastic front cover with fan filters seems like an afterthought since it doesn't cosmetically match the top panel. Perhaps they needed to include to tick the box for dust filtration, or perhaps the steel front panel has poor airflow - the holes look small and there is quite a lot of metal between them which is generally terrible for low-pressure airflow like front intakes. They do know how to do airflow holes because they did that for the rear fan bay.

It looked good at first glance but there are just too many small issues that add up.
 
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This is a $150 cheese grater.
 
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What an absolute 150 dollar disaster. How dare they call something that looks like it uses 40-60 dollar case tooling Premium? Are they aware of what actual care and proper craftsmanship 150 dollars can buy in the PC space?
Get your stuff together, FSP
 
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Terrible case for the money.
 
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Maybe FSP should just stick with psu's..
 
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horizontal MB is not very common but it reduce stress on big rad/fans
 
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How dare they call something that looks like it uses 40-60 dollar case tooling Premium
This is the problem I think. I recognise the underlying steel chassis from far cheaper cases.
There's only so much lipstick you should ever try and put on a pig and this pig is 80% lipstick.

Maybe that's too harsh. If someone gave me this case for free I'd probably use it without complaint. I just can't see myself buying it for more than about $75 because it's based on the same budget chassis that I can pick up in Kolink cases that have an MSRP of $50 but are usually on sale for much less than that. I once bought five of them on clearance for just £16 each, including VAT.
 
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This is the problem I think. I recognise the underlying steel chassis from far cheaper cases.
There's only so much lipstick you should ever try and put on a pig and this pig is 80% lipstick.

Maybe that's too harsh. If someone gave me this case for free I'd probably use it without complaint. I just can't see myself buying it for more than about $75 because it's based on the same budget chassis that I can pick up in Kolink cases that have an MSRP of $50 but are usually on sale for much less than that. I once bought five of them on clearance for just £16 each, including VAT.
What's annoying in this case (no pun intended) is that the case industry has learned so many valuable lessons in recent years regarding design, tooling, cable routing, hardware mounting and accessibility. Then there's this 150 dollar thing coming out straight from 2010.
 
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