Upgrading my case

Pixelfie · December 12, 2021

I currently have an Antec DP301M and it's far from great. The cable management is so bad that it takes me hours just to get the right side panel on (and it's bending a little bit), airflow isn't bad but not great either, a lot of my coil whine comes through (I already replaced PSU, GPU and mobo many times) and I don't like the look of it (especially that RGB strip since it can't be sync'ed). Also the audio suddenly became crap (a lot of high pitch noise and left side slighly quieter) only on the front jacks, but could also be due to motherboard.

Requirements:

- Good cable management

- Block coil whine

- Under €75 (country: Netherlands)

I've already seen the Be Quiet Pure Base 500 with Window (€70) which seems like what I need. Also really love the design of the Corsair 4000D but I don't know how well it blocks coil whine and don't think the USB-C will work with my motherboard. If you have any suggestions let me know!

Chris Pratt · December 12, 2021

I have the 4000D and cable management is excellent. It's also stupidly easy to clean, for what it's worth. I can't speak to coil whine, as I haven't had any issues with that with my system in either the 4000D or the Meshify C I was using before that. Could be both block coil whine well or I just don't have coil whine. As for the USB-C, yeah, you don't seem to have a 3.2 Gen2 header on that board, so that port would be dead. That does kind of suck, as the 4000D only has one additional USB-A front panel port, which is a weak point of the case, even if you do get the USB-C. I would have liked to have at least two A ports.