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Baeger
By Baeger
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Hi all!

Pretty simple.  I'm building a cheap and cheerful LAN rig and it's missing two pretty important parts.  One of those is a case.  The overall build will be made up of spare/old parts and it'll hopefully be portable enough for a LAN PC but one problem with this is the motherboard is ATX and I need the smallest case possible and for pretty cheap too!

Can anyone help me out?  It's gotta be the smallest possible ATX case for pretty damn cheap (but something new still).  I'm not too bothered if it's not the best case, anything will do really, but my budget is between £20-£50.  I'm hesitant to go over £50 as it's a PC I won't use regularly but if you guys insist I can go higher.

 

TLDR: need an ATX case between £20-£50 that's as small as possible for a LAN build.

About me:  23 Year old Software Developer from Wales, UK.  PC gamer and occasional Xbox Series X gamer (fanboy in recovery lol).  I stream occasionally as a hobby. 

The Rigs/Specs

 

KONAN (Main Rig): 
 

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CPU: Intel Core I7-10700K

Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv X Digital Midi Tower Glass Gaming Case - Gunmetal Grey

Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming (Socket LGA 1200) DDR4 ATX Motherboard

GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3070 Gaming OC 8GB GDDR6 Graphics Card

RAM: Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 48GB (2x8GB & 2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz

PSU: Corsair HXi Series HX850i

Storage: M.2, SATA SSD, Array of 6TB HDDs, etc etc. 

 

CASWYN (Old Main Rig - Retired):

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CASWYN (Main Rig):  i7 6700k @4.4Ghz, AsRock Z170 Pro4 Motherboard, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080, 16GB Kingston HyperX Fury Black Series (2133MHz, DDR4) Array of several Hard Drives totaling to 9TB, Samsung 840 120Gb SSD (Boot drive)  Ask for other stuff where relevant

 

CLESEK (Laptop):

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Dell Inspiron 7559 Gaming Laptop - i7-6700HQ, 12GB DDR4 RAM, GeForce GTX 960m, ADATA 128GB SSD, 1TB Standard HDD

 

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Check this out:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B009GXZ8MM/?tag=pcp0f-21

It's the Corsair 200R, it's pretty small, and looks nice to boot. 

Look at the mobo indent and you can kind of image how big the case is though. It's going to look rough with PSU cords in it.

There's also a 100R which I don't think is a very good deal considering the price compared to the 200R, but it is cheaper.

 

https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Cases/Midi+Tower/BitFenix+Neos+ATX+Tower+Black/Silver?productId=61212

The Bitfenix Neos is quite larger but cheaper. 

 

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/part/thermaltake-case-vl80001w2z

Thermaltake VL80001W2Z ATX Mid Tower Case

This seems to be the pcpartpicker cheapo favorite, the cheapest I mention also great reviews.

 

 

For your consideration here's a link to most of the cases in your budget:

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/parts/case/#xcx=0&X=0,5089&t=3,2&sort=a8&page=1

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S340. 

Most other options are larger or more expensive. 

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