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Case recommendations for HTPC/NAS

Quickstrike
By Quickstrike
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Hey group!
I'm looking for a case recommendation.

I'm planning on building an HTPC/ NAS from older parts and a bunch of NAS drives 

The case must be as silent as possible and fit a GPU, 6 3.5 drives and an SSD. Ideally it's a medium or small from factor that support a 2400 rad.

I'd rather spend my money on hard drives instead of glass and stamped aluminium so keep buy price near or under 125$ USD or tell me if I want my cake and eat it.

I got
-ROG STRIX X-370 (regular sized Mobo)
-Ryzen 7 1800X
-EVGA GTX 980ti
-WD Blue 1Tb SSD for OS and a few games
-Deepcool Captain AIO

Still need
-8 or 16 gigs of RAM (yet to buy, looking for used)
-Iron wolf 6Tb in raid 5 (6 planned in total - yet to buy)

-Case (need your input)

-750 watt PSU (yet to buy)

Ideally you have first or second hand experience with the case you will recommend.

Spoiler

 

CPU Ryzen 5900X - Motherboard Asus ROG STRIX X570-E - RAM 16GB of G.SKILL NEON 3600 -
GPU EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 - Case Mastercase H500p mesh - PSU Seasonic Focus Gx-850 -
Corsair MP600 NVME 1 Tb, Samsung 960 PRO 500 Gb & 2 Seagate Baracuda 7200 RPM 2TB in stripe -
Display two VG27AQ 2K monitor - Cooling Corsair H150 Pro - 

Keyboard G-910 W/ Romer G tactile - Mouse G 502 Hero (wired) -
Sound Logitech X-530 and Razer Tiamat headphones

Operating System Windows 10

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Quickstrike said:

Most modern cases mostly ditched 3.5" slots, might want to go for a bit older model

 

also not sure you want a silence focused case with all of the heat that will come from that CPU/GPU

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/wNrG3C/cooler-master-case-nse400kkn2

 

 

You can get noise pretty low with fan controls on a mesh case anyways.

 

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

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What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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