Features:
When I set the Hush case on the table to be photographed I think the word "wow" was about the only word out of my mouth. This is a nice case - very nice. NZXT has kept the styling very simple, but their attention to detail in that simplistic styling, and just the design itself makes the case quite an eye catcher!

The front of the case, including the stylish door, and strip below the door are all a brushed aluminum finish, available in either black (our review case) or silver. Hidden in the indent that runs vertically up the front of the door is a strip of clear plastic which illuminates blue when the case is running. Additionally, the fan behind the grill that the door's angled bottom practically covers is a blue LED fan, keeping a very common blue lighting theme on the front of the case. On a case designed for silence, I don't see how covering half of the 120mm fan with the door will help that though. Obstructing the air flow is more likely to create turbulence in the air since the fan can't pull an even column of air, but since the fans run at such a low speed of 1300rpm, perhaps this won't be noticeable. The power and reset buttons are a stylish silver and are located in the inset area where the door closes, as you can see in the pictures below and throughout this review.

The left and right sides of the case are flat black panels, no ventilation holes or fancy window is cut in either of them. I'm not sure how much it would hurt the performance of the acoustic foam inside, but I personally thought that putting a window in this case would make it look even more amazing. I can imagine that acoustically this might be a bad idea though. The large side panels are probably one of the most important areas to cover in the acoustic sheets, but I just love a cool looking case that has a window too.

Around the lower right corner of the front bezel you'll find 2 USB ports, a firewire port and mic and speaker ports. As much as we all love to have these ports for easy access, I would have much preferred them on the actual front of the case, behind a door or something, rather than placed around on the far edge. The one thing that I LOVE about NZXT cases is that the door opens to the right. Most people are right handed, therefore I see most computers set on the right side of a desk. It only makes sense to me that the door should have a right side hinge (and to the brilliant designers at NZXT as well). To bad almost every other case manufacturer designs cases so the door opens towards you blocking access to everything behind it. Now, keeping in this frame of mind I have to ask why the USB, firewire, and audio ports were placed essentially behind the opening door and typically out of sight. In my world, this forces me to reach around the blind side of the case to access these connections. Again, I think they should have been placed on the front for easy access (maybe behind a door), or on the left side of the front bezel.

Around back is also fairly standard looking, I liked how all the slot covers are the push-out kind so you can easily put them back in again if you change card configurations or computers. This shows the quality of the case because a lot of cheaper cases these days are using the break-off style slot covers which you can't put back in once they've been snapped off.