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I was going to guy a monitor for £175 but they sent me the wrong one so I returned it and whilst I was using it, I don't think the occasional game and a whole monitor just for skype is worth that amount of money.

 

So what should I spend it on? I recently bought a bunch of Corsair LED fans and Now i am thinking of finally changing cases from my Zalman Z11 plus which was beautiful on the outside but a pain in the inside. Are there any Mid sized cube cases out there with more than 3 drive bays (and 1 ssd)?

 

With The rest of the money I was thinking of getting a better PSU (the EVGA Super nova 800W) or the corsair AX 800W.

 

I would love to update to a haswell but I don't have that kind of money, just £180 ish to play with

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Maybe a few more GB of ram, go up to 16GB kit?

if you want a cube case the Corsair Air 540 seems like a good option

Don't really need more RAM tbh. I did think about the air 540, but sadly no place for my 3 HDDs and 1 SSD last time I checked.

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Don't really need more RAM tbh. I did think about the air 540, but sadly no place for my 3 HDDs and 1 SSD last time I checked.

Wow, I didn't even realize it doesn't hold 3 hard drives... So much wasted space. You could always get a 5.25 inch bay drive adaptor.

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Wow, I didn't even realize it doesn't hold 3 hard drives... So much wasted space. You could always get a 5.25 inch bay drive adaptor.

Wouldn't it being on it's side be bad for a running HDD? But yea, only two, that makes me sad.

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What's your current rig to begin with?

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Mmm... seem like changing the case might be a good choice. But usually it's a matter of preference... for me I like the 450D from Corsair and the NZXT H440 Black/Red :P

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Mmm... seem like changing the case might be a good choice. But usually it's a matter of preference... for me I like the 450D from Corsair and the NZXT H440 Black/Red :P

IMO the 440 is a bit too hot, plus the horizontal drive bays make GPU cables tight and there is no disk drive slot. Shame since that's the only boring looking case that I actually dont mind.

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