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Used for: 1–3 months
Printing is baked in, not stuck on
My son saved up for this himself and I was braced for it to be a sticker job, so credit where it is due. The finish is proper. The colours are baked into the panel rather than applied on top, the edges line up, and the character on the side panel is printed at a resolution where you cannot see the dots even up close. ASUS also included the aluminium GPU support bracket and a set of themed cable combs, so it is not purely decorative. Underneath it builds like any good mid tower. The rear channel is deep, the PSU shroud has a removable section for a bottom radiator, and the front IO has a USB-C that works!
Used for: 1–3 months
Corner handles make it liftable
Decal sheet arrived creased
Handles on the corners make a heavy case liftable, which nobody mentions in the reviews. The decal sheet is a lovely touch, though mine came slightly creased
Used for: 1–3 months
A real Helios under the artwork
Themed panel is opaque where the plain one is glass
Bought for my daughter's birthday and she has not stopped talking about it, so on that measure it is already a success. Underneath the artwork it is a proper Helios: four fans in place, a 420 radiator mount up top, a GPU brace in the box, and the same aluminium handles at the corners that make moving it civilised. The teal panels are printed rather than stickered so they should not peel. Marked down one because the themed side panel is opaque where the standard case has glass, so half the point of an RGB build is hidden.
Used for: 6–12 months
The printing itself is well done
You pay a lot for panels that cool worse
One star is for the price against what actually turned up, not for the artwork, which is well done. The case is a Helios II with a different set of panels and a decal sheet, and the premium over the standard black one is enormous. What you get for it is a printed front, a printed side and a keyring. There is no extra cooling, no extra fittings, nothing structural. Worse, the special panels are the ones that make it work less well. The front is solid where the standard case is mesh, so intake comes through a narrow strip, and the show side is opaque, so the RGB fans they include are pointing at nothing. Nine months of owning it and my honest advice is buy the ordinary Helios and spend the difference on a decent set of fans and a vinyl wrap.
Used for: Less than a month
Set this up over a weekend as a surprise and the reaction was worth every penny of it. Building in it was pleasant. The panels come off with a catch, the tray has grommets everywhere, and the four fans were already wired to the hub so the first boot needed no fiddling. The GPU brace saved me buying one. The theme is not to my taste at all and that is entirely the point, it was not bought for me. What I will say is that it has not dated the way a vinyl wrap does, because it is printed into the panel and there are no edges to lift
Used for: 6–12 months
It does look the part
Restricted front, hot card
Looks lovely and cools badly, which is a hard combination to forgive at this money. The themed front is close to solid, and with a 420 in the roof my card still sits ten degrees above where it did in a plain mesh box. Eight months of trying different fan curves has not fixed the airflow, only made it louder.
