InWin 303 Mid-Tower Chassis Review

Final Thoughts

Pricing

The real killer feature of the InWin 303 isn’t the build quality or the design, it’s the price. Available from most major retailers for Euro 80 excl VAT (99.00 incl VAT), the 303 is noticeably more affordable than previous high-end InWin products, by a significant margin.

Overview

I’m absolutely blown away by this chassis, it’s not perfect, but what minor issues I have encountered are easily brushed aside with two simple facts. One, it looks amazing and two, it’s a lot more affordable than you would think. When it comes to buying a new product, I like the look of it and I have enough money in my wallet to buy it, are pretty key motivators, so InWin has nailed the basics here.

The build quality is rock solid, and we wouldn’t have expected anything else from an InWin product, even more so from one cut from durable steel panels. The addition of the tempered glass side panel not only adds to the build quality, but it really sets the main focus for the design too, giving you a great view of the interior components and providing a great way to show off your new build, both inside and out.

The overall layout is certainly unique, with a rack of bottom fan/radiator mounts and another effectively within the chassis interior at the top. The right side panel ventilation is really cool in terms of aesthetics and helps promote this unique cooling setup, but it also allows you to effectively show off both racks of fans and/or radiators. The only issues being that any base mounted cooling could limit the number/size of some expansion cards. The cable routing could have done with a few improvements, as cables to tend to trail the motherboard to get where they need to be, but this just seems to be a quirk of InWin chassis’ these days and who knows, perhaps it’s something they’ll improve in the future, but it’s far from a deal breaker given the chassis other merits.

Overall, this is one of my favourite cases this year, it’s got rock solid build quality, stunning aesthetics thanks to the glass panel and the LED lit I/O panel, impressive component compatibility and it’s very competitively priced.

Pros

• Unique aesthetics
• Tempered glass side panel
• LED lighting on front I/O
• Supports extra-long GPUs
• Unique fan/radiator mounting design
• Durable build quality
• Supports 2 x 360mm radiators

Cons

• Cable routing placement should be better
• Dual GPU config limits fan/radiator space in bottom of chassis

“The InWin 303 is one of the most unique chassis on the market today. Offering up impressive aesthetics, rock solid build quality and competitive prices, we can see the 303 being one of the most popular chassis InWin has ever made.”

Thank you InWin for providing us with this sample.