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I need help choosing a case for a budget build. I have roughly 30-70 pounds to spend. I've been looking at the cooler master n2000 atm, but I don't know if it's a good enough quality or anything. I'm also looking for an attractive case.

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Consider the Fractal Design Arc mini, or the Bitfenix Prodigy M (beware terrible cable management though)

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n200 or n400 for cheap and decent appearance, you might wanna take a long at the zalman ms800, its got a 6 fan controller at £56, bunch of usbs, a gpu bracket(which can be removed, it just stops sagging) and then 4 fans. Its pretty decent build quality as well but i dunno what you would think about its appearance.

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Obvious bias aside, the N200 is one of the better budget-friendly mATX cases I've built in. I've used it for a few home office machines for my folks and neighbors, and it's just really nice as a budget case. You can get pretty much all you need for a standard budget build, like being able to get a storage drive, SSD for the speed, and can secretly hide in an older high-end GPU without a hitch. :D

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Fractal Design Define Mini is a pretty sleek looking mATX case with good cable management/storage options. It's £63.

 

Really depends on your definition of attractive though; cases with pulsating lights and strange angles I find utterly unappealing. Fractal Design seem to make minimalistic cases.

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I'd personally go with a Fractal Design Arc. If you think you're going to go ATX in the future, get the Midi R2. I have one and I can already feel that it'll last years in one form or another

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