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Budget (including currency): 300€ Country: norway hi i am new here. currently i am using the Corsair Carbide SPEC-03 that i got in 2014. however as the years have passed and parts getting changed i feel there is less and less space. i am currently looking for a very big and beefy mid tower or a very small full tower. most important for me are the dimensions that everything fit anything else i can probably make new holes add custom my components are - msi mag x570 tomahawk - ryzen 5 3600x - rtx 2070 - gtx 1060 - 64 gb ram - 850w power supply - ASUS BD-Reader/DVD-Writer BC-12D2HT - 3 HDD - 2 nvme SSD the current dimensions of my case are width 21.5 cm depth 49.3 cm height 42.6 cm

I was looking at budget friendly midtower case and I get confused between phanteks metallic neo air , msi vampiric 010, nzxt h510i and aorus c300 and I found that phanteks was the cheapest of all .So if anyone is having any idea of these cases then pls help me out!!!

Title says it all, can a Cryorig r1 fit in a Phanteks ENTHOO Pro M Mid Tower Case?

I'm building a birthday present for my soon to be 8 year old son. I'm using my older parts since I just upgraded to Ryzen. I'm looking for a nice mid towers case, and am currently looking at Corsair Carbide 100R, but didn't know if anyone might have better suggestions. I'm not going with RGB and LEDs, so clear side panel isn't required. Something sturdy and wide enough to fit an MSI R9 380 GAMING. He's 8, and the only games he plays are Rocket League, Need for Speed, Mech Warrior, Star Wars Battlefront Front. So I do not plan on upgrading him for a while. He will also be using it for educational things for his math and science programs. Specs: MB: MSI990FX CPU: FX 6350 OR FX 8350 (Depending on good deal for coller better than stock and Hyper D92) GPU: MSI R9 380 4GB Gaming X PSU: OCZ 700 watt Any other nice mid towers would be nice to look at. The only color option I will not take is White. They always get dirty, the color fades from sunlight. Not going to deal with it.

I recently built a Ryzen based PC and it's amazing for my needs. I had a theme going on which is the ever famous black and white. I know in theses forums there are a lot of cool people with DIY knowledge that can help me. How should I go on painting my case or plasti dip was it? I want the textured surface of the define C stay, just change the color to white. P.S. I also wanted to know where to go to buy those clean looking white cables which already have combs in them. Thank you for your help!

Hi all, I am currently using a Corsair Spec-06 white RGB mid tower for my new build and boy howdy did I make a little bit of a boo boo. I am building a new gaming rig and thought hey why not some flashing RGB and make it look all 2019. So with this case I also grabbed a Corsair H100i RGB Platinum AIO cooler, to keep my Ryzen 9 3900X CPU (whenever it decides to arrive, 4 weeks and waiting on Back-order.) Slotted in a new X570 Gigabyte Aorus Elite Mobo. I also decided to throw in some Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 to boot. So here is the fun stuff..... I now have ruined the "Direct Airflow Path Cooling" Corsair describe on their page. ( https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categories/Products/Cases/SPEC-06-RGB/p/CC-9011146-WW) So I found that with the X570 Aourus Elite and the Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4, I can only mount my H100i RGB Platinum to the front of the case.... (excuse the mess, still a work in progress, also GPU is only as reference for spacing) There is very little room above the Mobo/RAM combo to allow much more then standard fans, (ignore the fans on top as they are the stock fans that came in the case, just moved them out for sizing), So I am trying to figure out the best way to run this setup for good Air flow as currently Front fans are pushing out (when it should be the intake ), top fans ( should be pushing out for a decent build but since bits be crazy might use for intake ) and rear fan was thinking either intake or exhaust.( In old build it was the exhaust, Also had a 120mm AIO in rear slot). So can anyone help with a good airflow with this (crappy) new build so I don't have to look at buying another case Thanks.

Hello, first time posting here. As the title say's i need help finding a case, my current case is a corsair crystal 280x matx, I'm wanting to go back to a mid tower, currently I have 5 corsair LL120 fans and an EVGA 280mm aio liquid cooler, I'm wanting to bring all my cooling with me but I can't seem to find a case that can have 5 120mm fans and a 280mm aio slammed into it. I would like something with tempered glass and to be somewhat minimalist if anybody has anything in mind please I could really use the guidance! thank you!

So i'm thinking of shifting my components from my premade desktop ( Predator G3-710 (i670MR161T1)) to a NZXT H440 CASE. Is it possible to do so? PLEASE help cause i'm new to this things

I am solely stuck with these 3 mid tower cabinets to choose from , Nzxt source 530 Nzxt phantom 410 Nzxt H440 All these 3 cabinets are good but i cant figure out which one is good with airflow. also i will be using 240mm cpu water cooler something like CORSAIR CPU LIQUID COOLER H110i GTX COOLER MASTER CPU LIQUID COOLER NEPTON thanks in advance

What are some good cases for silent operation? My current case is a freaking airhorn and it makes a ton of noise, so I am planning to get a new case + some new quieter fans if the case doesn't come with enough. I have atx board and I'm looking for mid- or fulltower size cases. I have read that Fractal Design Define R5 is really solid option and BeQuiet! Silent Base 600 is ok option as well. I don't have a specific price range but I would say max 250€ is reasonable because I want a really solid and good case. I have 1 HDD and 1 SSD (maybe getting 1 more later) so I don't really need many drive cages or anything. So, what would be the best choice for very silent operation and has an ok airflow?

Hello all . I'm having trouble picking between the following builds. (These are not prebuild I'm building it myself.) $1635 Gaming Chasis: BitFenix Prodigy mITX Case MotherBoard: GIGABYTE Z97N-Gaming 5 Mini-ITX w/ 802.11ac CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache Cooling: Nzxt Closed Liquid Cooling Extreme Performance CPU Cooler (2 x Standard 120MM Fans) RAM : 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG V3) Video Card: EVGA Superclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) [+539] (Single Card) Power Supply: 550 Watts - Cooler Master V550 80 Plus Gold Semi Modular Power Supply [+52] Hard Drive: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive) Secondary Hard Drive: None External Storage: None Sound: ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO Or the Amd (small) Mid tower $1785 Gaming Chasis: Cooler Master N600 CPU: AMD FX-9370 4.40 GHz (4.7 GHz Turbo) Eight-Core Cooling: Nzxt Closed Liquid Cooling Extreme Performance CPU Cooler (2 x Standard 120MM Fans) Motherboard: GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 AMD 990 ATX w/ Ultra Durable 3, On/Off Charge, GbLAN, 4 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 1 PCI RAM : 8GB (4GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory Video Card: EVGA Superclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card (Maxwell) Power Supply: 500 Watts - EVGA 80 PLUS Bronze Certified Power Supply Hard Drive: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD Sound: HIGH DEFINITION ON-BOARD 7.1 AUDIO I love Both Builds but I am worried with a M itx It will be hard to upgrade in the future(not that I'll need to for awhile) But I love AMD I have stood by them for as long as I can remember. I have always had issues with Intel and its sockets so I worry about the ability to upgrade. For this being my 2nd personal pc build I want it to last and be able to take recording and gaming at the same time. (as well as 3d modeling and Note I will be moving this pc around a bit (the purpose of being somewhat small for a desktop) Graphic editing, cry engine ect.ect...) I'd love some opinions at the moment. If you have and Ideas for me let me know. Thanks a bunch Attached is a pic of the 2 cases (Desplay purposes only, I'm not buying prebuilt.)

Hey guys, I'm thinking about upgrading my case, I'd prefer a full tower, but I would choose a mid providing it was suitable. Could any of you kindly post some suggestions? The budget is £120. Many Thanks Gannicius

Hello Everyone, I'm planning to build a system which consists of the new Haswell 4770K and 2 EVGA GTX 780 ACX's in SLI. The CPU will be watercooled by an H110/NZXT Kraken/Whatever AIO prebuilt cooler you guys recommend. What case should I get. I like cases that are sleek and have good airflow. I understand the ACXs dump air into the case so I may consider getting the normal ones though they run hotter. I don't really want to go crazy on spending for the case so I'm looking for something good thats not too expensive. I would think around 220$ at most would be a reasonable amount. Can you guys give me some recommendations please? Thank you

Hi Forum, This will be my first post and the reason I've come to you all. I'll say this up front. These temps are probably "normal" but I'm "Paranoid" due to my last computer (laptop) dying via overheat. I now have a very nice Rig, please don't flame me for it being "store bought" if I could have built it myself part for part I would have but circumstances (unemployment, disability) lead to there being only one real option of finding someone who would work with financing for me, That was Alienware. I'm -highly- aware I could have built better for less cost so please please please.. lets just leave it at that. This is massively more for peace of mind than "zomg your poor rig is on fire" .. though if it IS on fire and I'm not paranoid pleaseee tell me lol Summory post: Link Specs Aurora ALX R4 Mid tower case (yes that one with all the fancy glowy lighting and "active" vent grill) X78 Alienware Board Intel i7-3930K @3.2GHz Liquid cooled (alienware closed loop, radiator is exost on standared back of case spot) Nvida GF GTX 680 2GB DDR5 (believe it's a reference card) 16GG DDR3 QChannel @800Mhz (at least that is the speed CPU-Z reported) 1 500G main mechanical drive 2 1TB Data mechanical drives PSU I believe is a 500W or 720Ws and exsosts out the back The case has 4 fans total. not including PSU and GPU two are intake, a small 80 I believe, hdd fan at the very bottom between the two, double stack racks. a 120 that intakes behind the 5-1/4' bays and blows across the GPU a 120 on the rad and a small .. I don't even know. smaller than 80.. pointed at the chips or capacitors between the two rails of ram (you know how x79 board are) it's probably doing not much of anything to be honest.. Due to it's config, the case, whilst it has two intakes vs one forced exit, it does have the full top open for venting so I've noticed it's likely negitive presure.. I do make sure to vacuum (carfuly) every two weeks because my room due to air flow of the house is the hottest and has it's own negitive persure so it also gets very dusty very quickly I've simply added my rig's cleaning to the cleaning I do already lol. In terms of temps. I don't know what the best "report" tools are but the tools that came with the rig "Alienware command center" was telling me my "ambeants" are usualy between 29-31. think they hit 32 once when it was 29c outside.. I'd found a "alienware" guid on setting an ambitan level curve with the rather.. simplstic thermal controler tools.. but I was curious to what the actual temps are on the hardware it self. Razer Game booster has it's own built in temp checkers for direct hardware. at "idle" comp on for a few hours, not much going on besides chrome and a wack full of tabs open and potenchaly a youtube or video or music playing.. RGB says the following: CPU 42C, Main board: 66C, GPU 64C I'm not conserend about the CPU as you can see.. though I'd love to bring it down a bit further if posbile.. there is no control for the raid's fan, think it might be 100% at all times. it should be noted I have the "active venting" set to always open as far as it can go. though I'm not sure how much of a difrence it makes when the non ALX case's top is staticly "closed" and people get SLI/Crossfire set ups. Under load. playing Tera for example (I took these while standing in a populated area with a lot going on, people, trees moving, water fall in back ground, etc) CPU: 46C, Main board: 85C, GPU: 83C While these are probably within "acceptable" levels... they make me nervous as hell and I'd veryyyyy much love to bring them down if possible. I'm not sure what I can really do to improve temps which is why I'm coming to you forum, I'd thought about orianting the CPU cooler so it blasts out the top vent, or simply put a few fans on the top vent.. just eye balling as I've never done it, I'd think it could take a set of 120's maybe even a dual rad but I am again, not sure. the case's main intake is at the bottom front, I'm sure you can find pictures on the web of it if you need, if more detaled ones are wanted when I can get some time I'll take some shots.. but only if it's really needed. I know the biggest and easiest thing would be to get a new case and whilst that would be a fantastic idea space/room wise for my bedroom a mid case is want works best though that new HAF stacker system from Coolermaster looks baller hahah. Thank you for your time and help if you want better temp readings or logs and such I'll need to know what a good program to use would be. ~Umi. Edit: adding some stuff I posted into a reply to the op for new readers to see. I've found a bunch of decent images from hardware haven's review of the Aurora R4 ALX. Front shot http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviewimages/alienware-aurora-r4/alienware-aurora-r4_front.jpg Side shot http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviewimages/alienware-aurora-r4/alienware-aurora-r4_left.jpg Vents up shot http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviewimages/alienware-aurora-r4/alienware-aurora-r4_top.jpg Inside wide http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviewimages/alienware-aurora-r4/alienware-aurora-r4_inside1.jpg this one shows pretty much the lay out of things, there is a air guide covering the GPU which slots into a bit of plastic that keeps it close next to the 120 which you can "kind of" make out in the next shot. before that though, the black thing between the two hard drive racks is the 80mm. there is no real fan directly near the intake opening at the bottom front of the case that I'm aware of. Inside close up http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviewimages/alienware-aurora-r4/alienware-aurora-r4_inside2.jpg you can see the crappy laptop fan I'm talking bout. you can also kind of see the "daughter" board just to the right of the cable management thing, that does, from what I recall, the lights, fan control, vent control and some other stuff it also makes changing the main board a bit of a annoying task, not impossible from what I've read just an extra steps. I'd love to replace that board with the ASUS ROG x79 they did for this form factor. Front shot open door: http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviewimages/alienware-aurora-r4/alienware-aurora-r4_front-open.jpg that 120 you can kind of make out just to the right of the GPU is behind these bays. I have the exact set up as shown in that image, a blue ray drive + card reader. I've seen some do mods where they take out the reader and make a sort of dyi screen cover and slightly boxed in housing to allow air to directly get to the fan/case through this front section. I've thought of replacing the fans and cooler, though I'm not sure what to replace them with, I've heard that fan set Corsair put out where pretty good, though I'm not sure which ones I'd need, high flow or static pressure. I'm sure another fan added to that Rad for a "push pull" would be good but I'm not sure if the spacing between rad and ram would take kind to that. As for the GPU, I don't remember what video it was from linustechtips but there was one from the comp expo where they were talking about all in one GPU water coolers I'd love to do that if I could but I'm not sure if the space in the case would allow for such. I AM OPEN to looking at a new case option.. I'm just not sure what would work best for what I got, with room to expand in. and to take the high dust, hotter environment that my room has.. even with the AC running down the hall my room ends up having it's own micro climate.. it's pretty annoying.

Is this the best possible build for $2000? I think so. I believe this computer has the horsepower necessary for gaming and mid-level computation, whilst having room for upgrading further down the road. I could get more memory, another GPU, or a HDD if I want. Any suggestions or objections? I almost feel like faster memory might be worth it at this price-point, but what do I know? Chassis: NZXT H440 Motherboard: Asus Z97 Sabertooth MK1 CPU: Intel 4790K CPU Cooling: Corsair H105 GPU: EVGA GTX780 w/ ACX Cooler RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB - 1600 MHz SSD: Intel 730 Series 240GB x2 PSU: Corsair RM850 Fans: BitFenix Red LED 120mm x6 and BitFenix Red LED 140mm x1 http://pcpartpicker.com/p/tXfJgs

Hey guys. I was directed to these forums by Linus himself in his $1500 build video (he promised this place was good for help on building rigs), so I come to you today with an approx $1500 budget (can give or take ~$50-60) CDN. I assume that's about somewhere in the range of ~$1300-1450 US. My current display set up, which while also be the same with the new rig, is two 1080p LCD monitors. One of them will be used for gaming and the other for other windows such as streaming tools like OBS, Pandora, Twitch chat, etc. So basically I'm going to be gaming at 1080p and streaming along with it. I also plan on overclocking, and I'm hoping this new rig can max out any games for the next handful of years. I've already taken the time to build and revise a rig on PC Part Picker, that from my somewhat limited knowledge should be able to handle what I throw at it, but I need your guys' opinions and perhaps changes to get the most out of my money. Here is a link to the build: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/user/Animoszity/saved/MzXnTW Thanks for reading, Animoszity. EDIT: Also what are your opinions on Windows 7 Vs. Windows 8.1?