be quiet! Pure Base 600 ATX Midi Tower PC Case| 2 Pre-Installed Pure Wings Fans | Black | BG021

big fan of be quiet! fans and now i have a sweet looking pc case, Pure Base 600. *Airflow is great because fans are powered from the top front Switch (positions are Low-Med-High) *this pc case met all my needs: 1) the cd/dvd rom player in 5.25" drive bay(s), 2) padded walls to dampen sound (my legacy pc system cpu/gpu fans were quite noisy, 3) i could rearrange the interior bays to suit my needs by adding extra HDD 4) plenty of room! 5) the best part... extra 140mm and 120mm fans! Now, the downside that prevented me from giving 10stars and a gold smiley... top cover can accidentally be smashed in and bend or break off the top lid tabs. keeps the dust out and i love the top lid feature! my retro gaming (offline) build: mobo: MSI 760GMA-P34 GPU: ASUS GTX770 DirectCU II 2Gb AMD FX 6300 w/ SilverStone KR01 cpu cooler really old CODEGEN 500X (550W) 3 Hard drives (but i'm testing more in future for total of 3 different OS builds) i hope i'm worthy of praise from be quiet!

smallproject_guy · 2025-10-19 · via amazon

You can't hear it when it's on, but you can feel a vast amount of air being pushed. The top vent can actually fit a 3 fan cooler(barely) despite manufacturer stating otherwise. The instructions aren't clear, so this is not a beginners build. This is a high quality case. The top vent cover seems kinda cheap.

Amazon Customer · 2026-04-21 · via amazon

I have the non-window variant. My build just uses pretty standard-size equipment. I've got a micro ATX motherboard and a Radeon RX 580, and that all fits without issue. I use the stock CPU cooler on my Ryzen 5 2600, and the case fans do a great job of keeping everything cool even when gaming at 4K in GTA V. And the whole time it's /really/ quiet. In a room with some background noise you can't even hear it running, and in a silent room it's utterly inoffensive. It's not even in a particularly well-ventillated space, either. It's been about six months since I put it together and it's still just as quiet despite being on thick carpet and not being cleaned yet. There are a lot of clever holes for cable management, and it's really easy to get it tidy on the inside. I really like the built-in fan controller; I think it's awesome to have that capability and I use it often. I also really love that you can selectively remove the parts of the rear where PCI devices like graphics cards and wireless adapters might go, while leaving the other slots covered. It forms this metal grille in the back that allows for airflow but won't let you accidentally drop anything inside. I got the all-black one and it has an understated yet really gorgeous look to it. The only detriment I can think of is that the manual is lacking in instruction. I think someone else who reviewed this encountered the same mistake I made with the SSD mounts -- I put them on backwards. Don't try to squeeze your SSD into the underside of the mount next to the motherboard; the SSD goes on top of the mount away from the motherboard, and the screws to mount the SSD go in through the side of the mount that faces the motherboard, and then screw into your SSD. Once you have it on the mount, you just reattach the mount to the case with the thumbscrew and you should be looking at the full unobstructed face of your SSD. I don't know why they designed it this way, but I like the flexibility of its placement once it's attached to the mount, as there are two places in which to attach the mount to the case. Overall, great design -- it works stupendously for my purposes. Couldn't be happier.

Homegrown Handyman · 2019-01-09 · via amazon

Overall I'm pleased. It fits the gigabyte aolus ultra motherboard with a noctua NH-U14S. It is quiet even with a total of eight fans running (three front, one back, two CPU, one chipset, one power supply), and the damping material on the case sides seems to be at least somewhat effective. I like the just plain black case with no place for multi-color LEDs. The power button is centrally located on the top front bezel and is easy to get to, and the reset button is small and unlikely to press accidentally. The tall feet on the bottom are a good idea especially if you mount the power supply to use the bottom vent. (I know other reviews complain about a motherboard standoff without the thread hole, and mine had that too, but I think it's intentional and not considered a mistake.) Unfortunately, there were a few downsides. The thumbscrews are cheap, and on my unit screw arrived slightly bending the thin steel it was screwed into. At this price point I expected quality screws throughout, engaged with standoffs or bushings. All the screw are cheap, inside and out. They thread into tapped holes in thin metal. I expect these to cross-thread and strip out easily, even handled with care. Cleaning the filter in the front panel is going to be inconvenient, because I can't pop the front panel off to get at the captive air filters without taking off the side panels to release the front panel tabs. I prefer cases where the front panel can be popped off without taking the case apart. It comes with three drive trays, and five slots to hold those trays, and no one has the extra be quiet HDD cage in stock. The 2.5" cages on the back of the motherboard tray are jokes. I'm not sure what drives they would actually fit. Maybe the 5mm ultra thin drives? The 7mm drive I tried certainly wouldn't fit at all. In any case, there is no effective air flow in that location behind the motherboard tray anyway, so I would consider those cages to be there only for show. The USB 3 slots in the front are not color-coded blue, and I wish they were. There is no USB-C connector on the front, nor any convenient way to add one. It would be nice to have a USB-C 3.1 connector with a type-e connector on the other end to work with modern motherboards. If you want that installed nicely in the front, you'll probably want to use a 5.25" drive bay adapter, in which case you can't have a fan mounted in front of the 5.25 drive bay. It looks as if you could fit 3 of the be quiet Pure Wings 2 140mm fans in the front, there are references to being able to add fans, and I thought somewhere I had seen a reference to placing three of them in front, but you can't actually fit three. It comes with one in the middle, which you could move to the top or bottom of the front, or you can have one fan at the top and one fan at the bottom, but you can't have three covering the front. I bought two extra Pure Wings 2 140mm fans, and then discovered that only one of the two extra would fit. I solved this by putting the third fan in the middle, but inside the case closer to the hard drive cages, and used four M4x60 bolts through the middle-most mounting holes in the upper and lower fans, through the mounting holes in the case, and then through the mounting holes in the inner, middle fan. Also, the fan switch on the front can control three fans. It comes connected to the 120mm fan in the back and the 140mm fan in the front, and there is one extra header for a second fan in the front. I have connected all three 140mm fans to the motherboard instead, and have the fan control switch connected only to the fan in the back.

Michael K Johnson · 2021-03-06 · via amazon

I like the case quality. Rigid structurally and flexible as to how cabling and the amount of drive space. Fans of good quality and quiet. The top cover could be a better design as far as ease of adjustment, like the ability to lift and secure at different ventilation levels for the fans.

patsfan · 2025-09-18 · via amazon

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