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I am looking for a cheap but good quality ATX sized case for under £45 ($75). It has to be able to fit a 300mm GPU. At the moment I am going with the Zalman Z3 but I wish to know if there is anything better for the price. I am wanting to spend under £45 so please do not put things for £70 

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Don't buy Zalman cases, please. Buy Corsair, anything Corsair. If you have 5 dollars you can buy the 330R, great case IMO.

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I am looking for a cheap but good quality ATX sized case for under $75. It has to be able to fit a 300mm GPU. At the moment I am going with the Zalman Z3 but I wish to know if there is anything better for the price.

NZXT Source 340

 

The case I would get hands down for under 100 bucks right now

"Rawr XD"

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http://www.corsair.com/en-us/graphite-series-230t-windowed-compact-mid-tower-case-battleship-grey

 

You can also get it in orange or black.

 

I have the 230t (black) its a nice case, quite a bit of cable management room, though I would have liked to see rubber grommets for the cable management cutouts.. (You can probably get some on ebay or something for it if you want them)

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Don't buy Zalman cases, please. Buy Corsair, anything Corsair. If you have 5 dollars you can buy the 330R, great case IMO.

whats wrong with zalman, the z1 and z3 are horrid, whats your problem with zalman other then that

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Listen if you care.

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whats wrong with zalman, the z1 and z3 are horrid, whats your problem with zalman other then that

Quality is meh, warranty is meh, support is meh, everything is meh.

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Quality is meh, warranty is meh, support is meh, everything is meh.

At the price of zalman produces id like to see you do better, im not being hostile. Anyways im not an advocate of expensive cases most of the time, i prefer more about appearance mostly as customers just look at a case and they care about what processor, ram or storage.

 

As a result things like the zalman r1, coolermaster n400 or the source 210 things like those cases look nice and are cheap, quality doesnt really matter but i guess thats because i have a business while others are building for themselves, anyways your opinion is sound zalman dont have amazing anything apart from price and a stupid amount of fans 

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


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At the price of zalman produces id like to see you do better, im not being hostile. Anyways im not an advocate of expensive cases most of the time, i prefer more about appearance mostly as customers just look at a case and they care about what processor, ram or storage.

 

As a result things like the zalman r1, coolermaster n400 or the source 210 things like those cases look nice and are cheap, quality doesnt really matter but i guess thats because i have a business while others are building for themselves, anyways your opinion is sound zalman dont have amazing anything apart from price and a stupid amount of fans 

Ok, that might be true, but me no like ze Zalman.

Case: Corsair Carbdie 330R Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Asus Z97-A CPU: AMD FX-6300 i5 4690K 3.5 GHZ + 212 EVO GPU: ASUS GTX 760 DirectCUII Ram: Corsair Vengeance LP 8gb (2x4gb) HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB PSU: Corsair CX500M
Monitor: AOC Q2963pm 29'' 21:9 IPS Mouse: Mionix Naos 8200 Mousepad: Mionix Sargas 320 Headset: HyperX Cloud Keyboard: Corsair Gaming K70 RGBIKEA Headset/Headphone Holder
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