amazon MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 reviews
MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 – A trend that has emerged in recent years – traditional Taiwanese manufacturers of components have started to “invade” into the area of accessories to create an “ecosystem” of its own, constituting an overall PC system is not merely a single component production.
If being compared with other brands on the market today, it can be said that MSI entered the game of making the case relatively “slower” than the other two brands from Taiwan, ASUS with the first case models partnering with In-Win in 2015 or Gigabyte who has also ordered their case models from 2017.
But when it “landed” in the accessories market, it immediately “surrounded” with three models of chassis products with a cheap price tag as MSI MAG VAMPIRIC 010 for universal PC staging. When it comes to high-end, there is MSI MPG Sekira 500X with a price that is “chattering” compared to the current common surface, while in the mid-range segment, its representative is the MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 chassis, aiming to the majority of its loyal fans, ready to spend up to 2 million for a case of “team dragon”.
So is this a good choice in the segment?
One of the first and most important factors that users expect of the case, is the stability of the case because this is a “frame” fixed, protecting all internal components from the impact of external forces, dust and weather as well as the “destructive attack” of unwanted pests such as lizards, mice.
In this respect, the MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 can be considered to fulfill this “mission” of owning a solid frame, using thick steel quality with well-finished panels, providing certainty for users, even when placing heavy objects on top of the box with a weight of up to 50 kg, it does not cause the frame to warp or physically deform.
The metal parts are powder coated with different layers of primer, coating, creating a good external finishing quality, though not really eye-catching, but very difficult to peel, scratch despite using for a long time.
Even the writer tried to mess with screws on several different positions from the side cover, the back to the inner frame did not detect the phenomenon of peeling paint or heavy scratches to “expose” the inner layer of iron like some cheap case models, leaving only faint marks on the paint.
It can be seen that this coating on MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 is very well handled and durable, providing adequate protection for the inner steel layer from physical, chemical, and external impacts, minimizing the rust of steel.
In terms of features, the MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 is quite “organized”, equivalent to other cases in the same segment with one side being “steel back”, the outer surface is made of 4mm thick tempered glass, which is fastened in the chassis made of four fairly short round screws.
The interior is arranged in a modern style for the past few years with an enclosed power supply compartment, incorporating both 3.5-inch HDD hard drive slots and two rear 2.5-inch HDD and SSD hard drive racks, relatively complete for everyday hard drive needs.
The ports are threaded correctly and rubberized to protect wires and other signal wires from friction, folding when passing through these holes, besides that there are the wires that help cable management easier and more efficient than an external drawstring. This is also a standard feature of cases with prices from 1.5 million dongs or more.
Both the top and front covers of the MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 can be opened to attach fans or All in One water radiators. The top can be used to attach a radiator with a maximum size of 280mm while the front side is capable of “carrying” a giant radiator of up to 360mm.
These two “lids” are well designed with extremely fine flap-shaped air inlet holes, ensuring airflow in and out of the machine without allowing insects or lizards to get inside and damage internal components.
MSI comes with four cooling fans, including three modest front-mounted exhaust fans and a rear blower with RGB backlighting, but users can create their own case with the built-in RGB LED controller, compatible with the MSI Mystic Light feature on today’s motherboards. The only LED cable that the company integrates is located on the front of the chassis, capable of lightening, creating a “mysterious” beauty to the whole system.
Other than the more expensive chassis models in the segment of 3 million to 4 million VND such as NZXT H510 Elite and Cooler Master MasterCase H500P Mesh White that Biareview has introduced to readers, “Odin Gungnir’s spear” is not designed to let users stand the graphics card in a “trendy” style while remaining loyal to the device traditional horizontal design.
The chassis space is still very spacious, enough for users to cram many devices inside, including MSI’s “giant” graphics cards such as the MSI RTX 2070 Super Gaming X Trio, or custom water radiators that require a lot of space for separate water tanks and pumps.
Overall, the MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 is a fairly stable and fairly regular mid-range chassis version of MSI, full of features for users needed to assemble a battle machine with enough space for components that belongs to the “top”, it’s also well-ventilated enough for large-capacity fan system to operate, but still ensure durability, ruggedness and resist the intrusion of environmental agents that may harm the components inside.
In fact, you probably have nothing to blame with the MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 because everything is done extremely well, but that’s why the product has a number of “boring” elements, unsuitable for fans of colored light effects.
First of all, MSI chooses the black color for the whole product including the toughened glass, which makes the case … “black”, lacking the necessary highlights to create “personality” for “team dragon” products, in addition to the relatively monolithic RGB lighting logo on the black background of the product.
In addition, the front “mask” is also designed to also somewhat limit the ability to show lights from the heat sinks mounted on the front, or restrict the airflow to the system.
This is also a common problem of old-fashioned chassis systems, and it was Corsair who realized this problem, replacing the closed-front design of the “mainstream” Corsair Carbide Series 275R products with Corsair product line 220T RGB Airflow recently launched, making it easier for users to show off their traditional full-face designs.
Even the “sealed” area of the power supply on the MSI MPG GUNGNIR 100 is no longer too “timely” when the power supplies are launched with all kinds of eye-catching decorations, from the RGB fans of RGB power supplies comes from ThermalTake to the OLED display that displays the power and information on the ASUS ROG Thor 850W Platinum tends to show off the power supply.
However, all these issues are quite minimal and can be easily compensated, especially with the fans of “team dragon” who can completely buy for themselves a product to complete its MSI ecosystem collection.
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