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GAMEMAX MeshBox Desktop ATX Computer Case w/ Mesh Front & Side Panels

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Newegg has GAMEMAX MeshBox Desktop ATX Computer Case w/ Mesh Front & Side Panels on sale for $44.16. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Staff Member f12_26 for sharing this deal.

Product Details:
  • MeshBox ATX Chassis, with featured dual fully mesh side panel which focused airflow, along with vertical airflow designed game case, which makes complex into simple, blends in the home
  • Vertical airflow channel, small size, high compatibility, basically suitable for installation of all mainstream accessories on the market
  • The bottom fan position blows directly to the graphics card to optimize cooling performance to maximum
  • The chassis is a modular design, optimizes wire management, and makes enough internal space.
  • Good vertical airflow design, cooling internal anywhere and anyplace.
  • Full area of dust-proof design, giving the computer a clean home
  • Support 240 water cooling and up to 168mm air-cooling CPU cooler
  • Support high-end popular graphics cards 305~355mm, unlimited games

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Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Limited time deal, while supplies last.
    • This price is $35.83 lower (44% savings) than the list price of $79.99
  • About this Product:
    • 1 Year Warranty
    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars based on over 10 customer reviews.
  • Additional Notes:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Newegg has GAMEMAX MeshBox Desktop ATX Computer Case w/ Mesh Front & Side Panels on sale for $44.16. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Staff Member f12_26 for sharing this deal.

Product Details:
  • MeshBox ATX Chassis, with featured dual fully mesh side panel which focused airflow, along with vertical airflow designed game case, which makes complex into simple, blends in the home
  • Vertical airflow channel, small size, high compatibility, basically suitable for installation of all mainstream accessories on the market
  • The bottom fan position blows directly to the graphics card to optimize cooling performance to maximum
  • The chassis is a modular design, optimizes wire management, and makes enough internal space.
  • Good vertical airflow design, cooling internal anywhere and anyplace.
  • Full area of dust-proof design, giving the computer a clean home
  • Support 240 water cooling and up to 168mm air-cooling CPU cooler
  • Support high-end popular graphics cards 305~355mm, unlimited games

Editor's Notes

Written by powerfuldoppler | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Limited time deal, while supplies last.
    • This price is $35.83 lower (44% savings) than the list price of $79.99
  • About this Product:
    • 1 Year Warranty
    • Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars based on over 10 customer reviews.
  • Additional Notes:
    • Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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wuss
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In my experience, not really (experience = about maybe 1,500+ PC's built in my lifetime). Not including water cooling, my approach to any air/fan cooled case is simply to exchange the air as efficiently and quickly as possible. Theoretically, no case is ideal. If you're going to have a case, a big mesh side is actually better IMO.

Also somewhat dependent on your CPU cooler since they're all the size of buildings these days. With a mesh side panel, a CPU cooler design that faces up from the motherboard vs. perpendicular like a tower is probably slightly better.

The whole deal with negative/positive air pressure , IMO, is primarily about long term dust/lint issues. Helps your case be lower maintenance and prevent blockage of mesh, therefore creating more heat.

For this particular case, I'd probably treat the side mesh as the main intake, and have the top and rear fans exhausting. I generally never like to do intake at the top of the case anyways since it's fighting the natural hot air rising.

TLDR : Big mesh panel generally good thing. Helps exchange air better from inside the case.

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Oct 18, 2024 07:26 PM
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DonkeyFinestOct 18, 2024 07:26 PM
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Wouldn't mesh side panel make terrible setup for airflow?
It's decreasing vacuum necessary for good pulling and exhaust in the back.
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Quote from DonkeyFinest :
Wouldn't mesh side panel make terrible setup for airflow?
It's decreasing vacuum necessary for good pulling and+ exhaust in the back.
In my experience, not really (experience = about maybe 1,500+ PC's built in my lifetime). Not including water cooling, my approach to any air/fan cooled case is simply to exchange the air as efficiently and quickly as possible. Theoretically, no case is ideal. If you're going to have a case, a big mesh side is actually better IMO.

Also somewhat dependent on your CPU cooler since they're all the size of buildings these days. With a mesh side panel, a CPU cooler design that faces up from the motherboard vs. perpendicular like a tower is probably slightly better.

The whole deal with negative/positive air pressure , IMO, is primarily about long term dust/lint issues. Helps your case be lower maintenance and prevent blockage of mesh, therefore creating more heat.

For this particular case, I'd probably treat the side mesh as the main intake, and have the top and rear fans exhausting. I generally never like to do intake at the top of the case anyways since it's fighting the natural hot air rising.

TLDR : Big mesh panel generally good thing. Helps exchange air better from inside the case.
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Oct 19, 2024 02:31 AM
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EpicPokeOct 19, 2024 02:31 AM
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Quote from DonkeyFinest :
Wouldn't mesh side panel make terrible setup for airflow?
It's decreasing vacuum necessary for good pulling and exhaust in the back.
Looks like the exhaust would be the top mostly?. Pull air from the sides and bottoms with fans at the top. But yeah weird design probably not optimal but a lot of free air flow should be fine for anything someone who would pay 45 dollars for a case would have in it. Ie probably not putting a 1500 dollar 4090 in a 50 dollar case
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Oct 19, 2024 02:36 AM
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JahlapenoezOct 19, 2024 02:36 AM
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I have this and airflow seemed fine for a 5700XT and 3060 GPU system. It's a chimney design so the primary direction of airflow goes from bottom case fans towards top exhaust fans.

It's lightweight (thinner metal unfortunately) but feels decent in build quality. It's one of the smallest ATX case designs you can get at regular prices (excluding those niche $150+ case builds); a clone of the Jonsbo D40/D41 design.

At this price with shipping included it's great for a cheap build. I picked up another one to try and build a NAS box using old an ATX mobo/CPU. It doesn't have many HDD space built in, but I believe I can 3d print HDD cages that mount along the bottom on top of the row of case fans. I did some measurements and am pretty sure it can get 8-12 HDDs installed vertically with case fans moving air between them.
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DoremonOct 19, 2024 04:18 AM
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There are countless videos on YouTube that demonstrated that the difference between "good airflow" cases and "poor airflow" cases is minuscule.
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DonkeyFinestOct 19, 2024 05:07 AM
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Quote from EpicPoke :
Looks like the exhaust would be the top mostly?. Pull air from the sides and bottoms with fans at the top. But yeah weird design probably not optimal but a lot of free air flow should be fine for anything someone who would pay 45 dollars for a case would have in it. Ie probably not putting a 1500 dollar 4090 in a 50 dollar case
So it doesn't need front panel fans then? This is getting weird as far as fan placement goes.
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EpicPokeOct 19, 2024 05:10 AM
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Quote from DonkeyFinest :
So it doesn't need front panel fans then? This is getting weird as far as fan placement goes.
Aio on top and 3 fans Bottom pulling air up and through. Bottom fans sucking air in top fans blowing out the top. Exactly like front to back in a normal case now just bottom to top
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BloodOrangeOct 19, 2024 06:36 PM
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Quote from Doremon :
There are countless videos on YouTube that demonstrated that the difference between "good airflow" cases and "poor airflow" cases is minuscule.
I think that's a great point as far as you have good air flow that's what matters
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linhnd2000Oct 19, 2024 08:26 PM
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Quote from Doremon :
There are countless videos on YouTube that demonstrated that the difference between "good airflow" cases and "poor airflow" cases is minuscule.
I haven't seen enough of those vids, but in my personal experience with my current cheapo case, air flow makes a huge difference. The case had a clear panel for the front, and with my 3 intake fans, no bottom intake as PSU and ssd/hdd live down there. My 3080 was thermal throttling all the time with 90 degrees C at 100% load. One day, I decided to remove that front panel and GPU temps dropped to barely 65 degrees at 100%. also undervolting and have much higher boost clock (~2000 vs 1700 stock or 1440 if throttled)
Basically, the clear front panel did not let enough air in even as it's got about a quarter inch gap on all sides. Now I'm just getting a mesh cover to act as filter.
Last edited by linhnd2000 October 19, 2024 at 02:31 PM.
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Luigis3rdcousinOct 19, 2024 09:35 PM
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Quote from BloodOrange :
I think that's a great point as far as you have good air flow that's what matters
Side mesh panel will give the effect of removing the side panel. If you ever conducted benchmarks with and without side panel of various cases, amazing things happen when the side panel is removed
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DoremonOct 20, 2024 07:39 PM
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Quote from linhnd2000 :
I haven't seen enough of those vids, but in my personal experience with my current cheapo case, air flow makes a huge difference. The case had a clear panel for the front, and with my 3 intake fans, no bottom intake as PSU and ssd/hdd live down there. My 3080 was thermal throttling all the time with 90 degrees C at 100% load. One day, I decided to remove that front panel and GPU temps dropped to barely 65 degrees at 100%. also undervolting and have much higher boost clock (~2000 vs 1700 stock or 1440 if throttled)
Basically, the clear front panel did not let enough air in even as it's got about a quarter inch gap on all sides. Now I'm just getting a mesh cover to act as filter.
Personal anecdote vs testing hundreds of setups with scientific equipment/infrared technology to measure heat distribution over the course of years Ermm
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linhnd2000Oct 20, 2024 09:27 PM
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Quote from Doremon :
Personal anecdote vs testing hundreds of setups with scientific equipment/infrared technology to measure heat distribution over the course of years Ermm
And is the result really "the difference between "good airflow" cases and "poor airflow" cases is minuscule."????
Correct me if I misunderstood your statement. Did you actually say "any case" would perform similarly in regards to components' thermal?
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BabyTantrumOct 21, 2024 04:01 AM
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It changed price and it's up to almost $50.
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WhenPigsFly09090Oct 21, 2024 11:05 AM
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Not a fan of this case. There is another extension power cable that removes immediate access to the PSU making this a poor choice for home lab setups

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NickK3338Oct 22, 2024 01:54 PM
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The pictured and linked case is NOT front mesh. Should probably amend title

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