Case help please!

[Rowancooldude]

Ok, so after many weeks of perfecting my build in my price range, I can't find a good case that isn't humongous and is in my price range. What I am looking for is a Mid size case that allows water cooling and SLI and at least a few fans included. This is my build http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qcbtbv and I want the case to be around $100.

 

Parts List

CPU- Intel Core i7-4790S

CPU Cooler- Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard- Asus MAXIMUS VII Hero ATX

Memory- G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600

Storage- OCZ Arc 100 240GB SSD and Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD

Video Card- ASUS GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX

Case- UNKNOWN (NZXT Phantom (Black) Full currently picked out)

Power Supply- EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W Fully-Modular

Wireless Network Adapter- TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (I don't get Ethernet in my room D:)

Estimated Wattage- 338W

 

and I would like to match the red and black color scheme going above. Also, this is my first build ever and so if you could give me any tips with the actual build or any parts that could be better for the same price that would be great. Thank you so much for even reading this all  

[ChaseB]

Ok, so after many weeks of perfecting my build in my price range, I can't find a good case that isn't humongous and is in my price range. What I am looking for is a Mid size case that allows water cooling and SLI and at least a few fans included. This is my build http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qcbtbv and I want the case to be around $100.

 

Parts List

PM me for more helps or ask the forum. What I need to know is what is your budget 

[Wirbelfeld]

Ok, so after many weeks of perfecting my build in my price range, I can't find a good case that isn't humongous and is in my price range. What I am looking for is a Mid size case that allows water cooling and SLI and at least a few fans included. This is my build http://pcpartpicker.com/p/qcbtbv and I want the case to be around $100.

 

Parts List

CPU- Intel Core i7-4790S

CPU Cooler- Corsair H100i GTX 70.7 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler

Motherboard- Asus MAXIMUS VII Hero ATX

Memory- G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600

Storage- OCZ Arc 100 240GB SSD and Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM HDD

Video Card- ASUS GeForce GTX 970 4GB STRIX

Case- UNKNOWN (NZXT Phantom (Black) Full currently picked out)

Power Supply- EVGA SuperNOVA NEX 650W Fully-Modular

Wireless Network Adapter- TP-Link TL-WDN4800 802.11a/b/g/n PCI-Express x1 Wi-Fi Adapter (I don't get Ethernet in my room D:)

Estimated Wattage- 338W

 

and I would like to match the red and black color scheme going above. Also, this is my first build ever and so if you could give me any tips with the actual build or any parts that could be better for the same price that would be great. Thank you so much for even reading this all  

Linus has a bunch of case reviews. Cases are mostly personal preference so we cant help you much here. I personally like NZXT's phantom 530. they have black white and red options for you to choose.

What do you plan to do on this pc

IF you dont plan on doing any video rendering i suggest you downgrade to an i5 and to 8GB of RAM as 16GB of ram and an i7 is only needed for video editing

 

I personally do not like ASUS's strix for the GPU. ASUS is not the best GPU for overclocking. I would recommend Gigabyte or MSi for the GPU

I dont recommend EVGA as they fucked up the heatsink on the GPU before which was a pretty stupid mistake so I dont really trust them anymore

[Rowancooldude]

Linus has a bunch of case reviews. Cases are mostly personal preference so we cant help you much here. I personally like NZXT's phantom 530. they have black white and red options for you to choose.

What do you plan to do on this pc

IF you dont plan on doing any video rendering i suggest you downgrade to an i5 and to 8GB of RAM as 16GB of ram and an i7 is only needed for video editing

I was really wanting to be able to run any new games at 60+ FPS on very high settings and I do plan on using video editing software such as Sony Vegas for my youtube channel :3 

 

PM me for more helps or ask the forum. What I need to know is what is your budget 

My budget is around $1600 maybe a little more if it is justified

[Wirbelfeld]

I was really wanting to be able to run any new games at 60+ FPS on very high settings and I do plan on using video editing software such as Sony Vegas for my youtube channel :3 

 

My budget is around $1600 maybe a little more if it is justified

I dont think you need 16 GB of ram for that unless you have a 4k monitor, and unless you do serious 3D development or VFX, anything above 3.0 ghz is more than enough. I would only recommend that to people doing 4k rendering or serious 3D work. And since your i7 is a quad core 3.2 GHZ processor, an i5 would be better since the only benefit from that is hyperthreading which you probably wont use much yet there are i5 processors that are faster than your i7

An MSi 970 would probably be better at overclocking allowing you to go way beyond 60 FPS on ultra.

 

You might not have saw this in my last post so ill repeat it:

I personally do not like ASUS's strix for the GPU. ASUS is not the best GPU for overclocking. I would recommend Gigabyte or MSi for the GPU

I dont recommend EVGA as they fucked up the heatsink on the GPU before which was a pretty stupid mistake so I dont really trust them anymore.

[Wirbelfeld]

You can easily take the money saved from getting an i5 and 8gb of ram and invest into a better GPU such as the 980

What monitor resolution will you be gaming at?

[Rowancooldude]

You can easily take the money saved from getting an i5 and 8gb of ram and invest into a better GPU such as the 980

What monitor resolution will you be gaming at?

I really like this setup and I don't think I am gonna change any of these parts... 1080P

[Wirbelfeld]

Also, this is my first build ever and so if you could give me any tips with the actual build or any parts that could be better for the same price that would be great. Thank you so much for even reading this all  

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I really like this setup and I don't think I am gonna change any of these parts... 1080P

Wut? then why you ask for help? If you get an i7 at least get a 6 core one instead of a 4 core one to actually increase your performance instead of increasing price while decreasing performance

[ChaseB]

Hey I bought a cheap case and then modded it