Montech Sky One Lite

[Darksaber]

The Montech Sky One Lite is not simply a cheaper version of the original Sky One. It diverges from what the original offered and improves on several elements, while balancing well focused, useful functionality to provide a budget chassis that manages to punch well above its weight.

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[Space Lynx]

@Darksaber

Do you still have the Montech Air X laying around that you reviewed? It says it supports 3x140mm fans up front, with an asterisk next to it, but I for the life of me can't figure out what the asterisk means.

Do you think I could fit the Arctic 420mm AIO cooler in this case if I were to jimmy rig it a bit?

AIR X White

Telon Co., Ltd. has been engaged in Taiwanese PC industry for more than 30 years. And its team includes experienced engineers & designers and after-sales personnel.

www.montechpc.com

 

[ymdhis]

Looks like it's the same as nearly all the standard cases out there nowadays. Yawn.

 

[Space Lynx]

Looks like it's the same as nearly all the standard cases out there nowadays. Yawn.

At least this one has a hinge. So many do not for the glass panel. I really like the idea of having a hinge. I have three PC cases at the moment, and none of them have a hinge sadly.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yeah how about one image here

 

[ffolekram]

@Darksaber

Do you still have the Montech Air X laying around that you reviewed? It says it supports 3x140mm fans up front, with an asterisk next to it, but I for the life of me can't figure out what the asterisk means.

Do you think I could fit the Arctic 420mm AIO cooler in this case if I were to jimmy rig it a bit?

AIR X White

Telon Co., Ltd. has been engaged in Taiwanese PC industry for more than 30 years. And its team includes experienced engineers & designers and after-sales personnel.

www.montechpc.com

I have the Air X,
I don't think you can fit a 420mm aio in the front, I have a 360 in the front which leaves a gap less than 10mm to top
the extra length due to the tubes and turns would cause it to be longer than the available space.

 

[Assimilator]

@Darksaber I'm not seeing where 6 drives could fit in this case. There are 2x 2.5" behind the motherboard and 2x 2.5"/3.5" under the shroud - where are the other 2?

Looks like it's the same as nearly all the standard cases out there nowadays. Yawn.

Show me another chassis that comes with USB-C, filters on all the air intakes, 3 fans, an ARGB controller, tempered glass side panel, and the ability to mount a 360mm radiator - for seventy freaking dollars or less. I bet you can't.

The budget chassis space is currently dominated by obsolete recycled rubbish lacking one or all of the features I mentioned above, and Montech has a great opportunity to massively shake it up with a product this good at a price this low. They cannot be commended enough for refusing to take the same route as all the other manufacturers and just slapping ARGB on a design that was good a decade ago.

Literally the complaint I can make against this chassis is that it doesn't permit for a 360mm rad in the top. If it allowed that it would be perfect; as is it's superior to both every other budget chassis I've seen so far, and indeed quite a few midrange products offered by big-name brands at considerably higher prices.

We generally think of innovation as creating new features, but bringing existing features from the high-end to the low-end is an innovation in and of itself, and for that reason I would like to request that @Darksaber considers this chassis for TPU's innovation award in addition to the deserved accolades it's already received.

 

[Chrispy_]

That's an awesome case for the money.

I was naively hoping that the "Lite" meant they'd scrapped the ARGBLED nonsense to cut the price down and focus on the essentials. I mean, it's not an overpriced case, but you have to wonder what percentage of the BOM is taken up by the pair of ARGBLED cables, the dedicated PCB and contacts to connect the front panel to the wiring, the machining of the front panel for the LED strip and the ARGBLED strip itself. I'd guess 10% and whilst that's not going to shave 10% off the price (because the BOM is typically only a third of the retail cost) it adds labour and complexity and additional component supply-chain dependencies to the manufacturing.

I'd trade all the ARGBLED nonsense for one extra fan any day of the week.

 

[Assimilator]

That's an awesome case for the money.

I was naively hoping that the "Lite" meant they'd scrapped the ARGBLED nonsense to cut the price down and focus on the essentials. I mean, it's not an overpriced case, but you have to wonder what percentage of the BOM is taken up by the pair of ARGBLED cables, the dedicated PCB and contacts to connect the front panel to the wiring, the machining of the front panel for the LED strip and the ARGBLED strip itself. I'd guess 10% and whilst that's not going to shave 10% off the price (because the BOM is typically only a third of the retail cost) it adds labour and complexity and additional component supply-chain dependencies to the manufacturing.

I'd trade all the ARGBLED nonsense for one extra fan any day of the week.

Sadly ARGB is something that every marketing department has convinced itself its product needs or nobody will buy it.

 

[Enigma95]

Hey Everyone,

So I have a really weird issue that I cannot figure out a solution for. I purchased a Montech Sky One Lite case and swapped out all my old parts from my old case into this one (was looking to downsize my full tower). Once everything was hooked up I powered on the PC and all was fine. I was sitting on the Windows desktop and thought I would try changing the RGB strip color on the front of the case. Once I pressed the physical LED button on the case it completely reset my PC. This had me wondering, so I opened the case up and looked at the wiring from the LED button and it seems to be apart of the front panel wiring like the HDD LED, Power Switch, Power Switch LED, etc. What I tried was to just plug in the power switch header and after doing that the LED button still reset the PC when pressed. With that behavior, I assumed the LED button on the case was daisy-chained or tied into the power switch header cable. Does anyone know what the issue could be here? My MoBo is a Prime Z270-K (I know it's old) and does not have RGB headers or anything, but I would like to be able to control the case RGB using its physical button. Another thing I noticed which I am assuming ties into this issue is when I shut the PC down it just starts itself right back up, also, when I put it into standby mode it just takes itself right out. It appears the case front panel headers are sending starting and wakeup signals to the MoBo. I am assuming the case is the culprit here because when all the same exact hardware was in my old case this did not happen. Any thoughts, ideas, or solutions are greatly appreciated, I have exhausted all of my troubleshooting ideas on this! Thank you!

 

[mosh]

Hi, when installing the mb did you use additional raisers. I noticed the case comes with preinstalled ones and I'm not sure if I need some extra, thank you!