Which one of these cases is the best?

[Joe Smok]

Budget (including currency): this pcs cost

Country: united states

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Unity, Csgo, Overwatch, Fortnite

 

Other details lol my only pc, a laptop is terrible

 

ok hi there everyone! I have a Inspiron 15 5000 series, which is terrible for gaming. And I am looking to upgrade! I like the specs of my ibuypower pc and the price seems like a steal

 

Operating System :: Windows 11 Home - (64-bit)

Case :: ADATA XPG STARKER Tempered Glass Gaming Case

Case Fans :: Default Case Fan

Processor :: Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF Processor (8X 3.60GHz + 4X 2.70GHz /25MB L3 Cache)

Processor Cooling :: iBUYPOWER 240mm Addressable RGB Liquid Cooling System - Black

Memory :: 32GB [16GB X2] DDR5-4800 Memory Module

Video Card :: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - 8GB GDDR6X (VR-Ready)

Motherboard :: ASUS PRIME Z690-P - Wi-Fi, ARGB Header (3), USB 3.2 Ports (1 Type-C, 5 Type-A), M.2 Slot (3)

Power Supply :: 750 Watt - High Power 80 PLUS Gold

Primary Storage :: 500GB PCIE NVME SSD + 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive

INCLUDED :: KB + MOUSE INCLUDED - Gaming Keyboard + Gaming Mouse

INCLUDED :: WARRANTY INCLUDED

INCLUDED :: WINDOWS 11 HOME INCLUDED

 

This is all for $2629 and I have two questions which case should I choose and is the msi pro z690-a better than the one I have? They only have a 4 dollar difference in the mobo price. I think I’ll pay the extra 200 for the 12900kf too, but I wanted a case that would keep it all cool! Which one of these is the best?

thanks for the help!

Joe

[krakek]

54 minutes ago, Joe Smok said:

Budget (including currency): this pcs cost

Country: united states

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Unity, Csgo, Overwatch, Fortnite

 

Other details lol my only pc, a laptop is terrible

 

ok hi there everyone! I have a Inspiron 15 5000 series, which is terrible for gaming. And I am looking to upgrade! I like the specs of my ibuypower pc and the price seems like a steal

 

Operating System :: Windows 11 Home - (64-bit)

Case :: ADATA XPG STARKER Tempered Glass Gaming Case

Case Fans :: Default Case Fan

Processor :: Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF Processor (8X 3.60GHz + 4X 2.70GHz /25MB L3 Cache)

Processor Cooling :: iBUYPOWER 240mm Addressable RGB Liquid Cooling System - Black

Memory :: 32GB [16GB X2] DDR5-4800 Memory Module

Video Card :: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - 8GB GDDR6X (VR-Ready)

Motherboard :: ASUS PRIME Z690-P - Wi-Fi, ARGB Header (3), USB 3.2 Ports (1 Type-C, 5 Type-A), M.2 Slot (3)

Power Supply :: 750 Watt - High Power 80 PLUS Gold

Primary Storage :: 500GB PCIE NVME SSD + 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive

INCLUDED :: KB + MOUSE INCLUDED - Gaming Keyboard + Gaming Mouse

INCLUDED :: WARRANTY INCLUDED

INCLUDED :: WINDOWS 11 HOME INCLUDED

 

This is all for $2629 and I have two questions which case should I choose and is the msi pro z690-a better than the one I have? They only have a 4 dollar difference in the mobo price. I think I’ll pay the extra 200 for the 12900kf too, but I wanted a case that would keep it all cool! Which one of these is the best?

thanks for the help!

Joe

Somewhere out there a certain Dave from Gamers Nexus is crying in pain.
 

Coolermaster CL500 seems like the least worst offender, otherwise get the cheapest one and rebuild in a new case that you could buy separately.

240mm AIO may be a bit tight for the 12700KF. The MoBo should be fine.

[krakek]

Another thing - if you are looking at Z690 reviews you may be interested in buildzoids stuff:

 

[Joe Smok]

3 hours ago, krakek said:

Somewhere out there a certain Dave from Gamers Nexus is crying in pain.
 

Coolermaster CL500 seems like the least worst offender, otherwise get the cheapest one and rebuild in a new case that you could buy separately.

240mm AIO may be a bit tight for the 12700KF. The MoBo should be fine.

Yeah I’ll probably go for namebrand, and I forgot to change the aio to the 360 version

[Somerandomtechyboi]

6 hours ago, Joe Smok said:

Budget (including currency): this pcs cost

Country: united states

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Blender, Unity, Csgo, Overwatch, Fortnite

 

Other details lol my only pc, a laptop is terrible

 

ok hi there everyone! I have a Inspiron 15 5000 series, which is terrible for gaming. And I am looking to upgrade! I like the specs of my ibuypower pc and the price seems like a steal

 

Operating System :: Windows 11 Home - (64-bit)

Case :: ADATA XPG STARKER Tempered Glass Gaming Case

Case Fans :: Default Case Fan

Processor :: Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF Processor (8X 3.60GHz + 4X 2.70GHz /25MB L3 Cache)

Processor Cooling :: iBUYPOWER 240mm Addressable RGB Liquid Cooling System - Black

Memory :: 32GB [16GB X2] DDR5-4800 Memory Module

Video Card :: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti - 8GB GDDR6X (VR-Ready)

Motherboard :: ASUS PRIME Z690-P - Wi-Fi, ARGB Header (3), USB 3.2 Ports (1 Type-C, 5 Type-A), M.2 Slot (3)

Power Supply :: 750 Watt - High Power 80 PLUS Gold

Primary Storage :: 500GB PCIE NVME SSD + 1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive

INCLUDED :: KB + MOUSE INCLUDED - Gaming Keyboard + Gaming Mouse

INCLUDED :: WARRANTY INCLUDED

INCLUDED :: WINDOWS 11 HOME INCLUDED

 

This is all for $2629 and I have two questions which case should I choose and is the msi pro z690-a better than the one I have? They only have a 4 dollar difference in the mobo price. I think I’ll pay the extra 200 for the 12900kf too, but I wanted a case that would keep it all cool! Which one of these is the best?

thanks for the help!

Joe

Literally all those cases are complete trash

 

There is no f ing airflow cause for any normal god damn prebuilt looks > performance, which is obv retarded asf

 

The least pos case from that selection is the cougar darkblader x5 cause it does have some form of ventilation, the others will bake your pc to death aka they belong in a scrapyard

 

Tbh you may wanna buy the parts yourself and just have someone assemble it for you so you can choose whatever parts you want but also have the convenience of a prebuilt, cause generally prebuilts are often trash value even in this gpu crisis, its only on the rare occasion of a cheap prebuilt is when its worth buying cause gpu