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So, I am looking for a budget case... I have a few options, I want decent air flow/cable management and some good case fans wouldn't hurt. No black/red cases please... Just solid black or black/blue , white/blue. Only need space for a micro ATX and one GPU.

 

I have already found some decent looking choices:

 

CoolerMaster MasterBox Q300L

CoolerMaster MasterBox MB600L

Corsair Carbide Spec-04

Zalman Z1 Neo

Thermaltake Versa H15 – Window

 

Should I buy one of these or you have any other recommendations under 55-60$?

 

Thanks :)

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Could try the Fractal Design Focus G. About your price range. I have the White one (has a window and black mesh front) but they also do a full black, blue w/ black front and red w/ black front. It comes with 2 white LED SilentSeries fans and they live up to their name. Super quiet. Loads of space for cable management. Great Airflow. I have a full ATX board in mine but it was tight for getting front panel IO through so mATX will have plenty of room. I also have a large MSI GTX 960. Their Black and Red Twin Frozr style card and there's ample room for a bigger card if that's what you're going for. Although it takes full ATX it's actually smaller than my last case which only took up to mATX cause Fractal have not wasted any space (unless you know you won't use the 5.25" bays). All in all really good value.

|| CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (@3.9GHz) || Motherboard: ASUS Prime B350 Plus || Cooler: Arctic Freezer 33 eSports Edition || GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 SC || Memory: 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB C16 (@2933MHz) || SSD: SanDisk 128GB || HDD: WD Blue 2TB, Toshiba 2TB, Transcend 1TB || PSU: Corsair RM550x || Case: Fractal Design Focus G || Monitor: 2x AOC 23” I2369VM IPS Full HD, Samsung 32" LED TV Monitor || Mouse: Logitech G703 Wireless || Keyboard: Cooler Master MK750 RGB (Cherry MX Brown) || Speakers: Dell Stereo Speakers || Headphones: Sennheiser HD 4.40 BT / Samsung Galaxy Buds ||

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6 minutes ago, Inversion said:

Could try the Fractal Design Focus G. About your price range. I have the White one (has a window and black mesh front) but they also do a full black, blue w/ black front and red w/ black front. It comes with 2 white LED SilentSeries fans and they live up to their name. Super quiet. Loads of space for cable management. Great Airflow. I have a full ATX board in mine but it was tight for getting front panel IO through so mATX will have plenty of room. I also have a large MSI GTX 960. Their Black and Red Twin Frozr style card and there's ample room for a bigger card if that's what you're going for. Although it takes full ATX it's actually smaller than my last case which only took up to mATX cause Fractal have not wasted any space (unless you know you won't use the 5.25" bays). All in all really good value.

Looks pretty nice! Though, here in Greece, it has expensive shipping, compared to other cases (for some unexplained reason).

If I find it under 50 EUR, I'll probably get that one, otherwise I might go with a CoolerMaster one. Anyways, thanks for your recommendation! :D 

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2 hours ago, JasonScorpio said:

Looks pretty nice! Though, here in Greece, it has expensive shipping, compared to other cases (for some unexplained reason).

If I find it under 50 EUR, I'll probably get that one, otherwise I might go with a CoolerMaster one. Anyways, thanks for your recommendation! :D 

No problem. I just had a look at Amazon's Greece shipping fee. That's frankly ridiculous. I love Fractal Design's cases. Just classy, understated and functional and although they offer lots of watercooling support, their airflow is stupendous.

|| CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (@3.9GHz) || Motherboard: ASUS Prime B350 Plus || Cooler: Arctic Freezer 33 eSports Edition || GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 SC || Memory: 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB C16 (@2933MHz) || SSD: SanDisk 128GB || HDD: WD Blue 2TB, Toshiba 2TB, Transcend 1TB || PSU: Corsair RM550x || Case: Fractal Design Focus G || Monitor: 2x AOC 23” I2369VM IPS Full HD, Samsung 32" LED TV Monitor || Mouse: Logitech G703 Wireless || Keyboard: Cooler Master MK750 RGB (Cherry MX Brown) || Speakers: Dell Stereo Speakers || Headphones: Sennheiser HD 4.40 BT / Samsung Galaxy Buds ||

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19 hours ago, JasonScorpio said:

So, I am looking for a budget case... I have a few options, I want decent air flow/cable management and some good case fans wouldn't hurt. No black/red cases please... Just solid black or black/blue , white/blue. Only need space for a micro ATX and one GPU.

 

I have already found some decent looking choices:

 

CoolerMaster MasterBox Q300L

CoolerMaster MasterBox MB600L

Corsair Carbide Spec-04

Zalman Z1 Neo

Thermaltake Versa H15 – Window

 

Should I buy one of these or you have any other recommendations under 55-60$?

 

Thanks :)

You could always check out the Pkanteks P350X. Nice case with very good features and build quality. 

Current Build

AMD Ryzen 2600

Stock cooler

Asus ROG B450f gaming Mobo

1tb SKHynix m.2

WD 1TB HDD

Asus ROG Strix RX 5700xt

Thermaltake Toughpower 650w DPS RGB 80+Gold

16 Gigs ddr4 3000 gskill ram

Phantek fans

Phanteks P400TG

 

Laptop

Eluktronics Prometheus XVII

Ryzen 7 5800h

32 gigs ddr4 Corsair ram

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29 minutes ago, Zusafek said:

You could always check out the Pkanteks P350X. Nice case with very good features and build quality. 

Unfortunately, those don't ship in Greece, and are almost out of my budget. Still, good choice and thanks for the recommendation!

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19 hours ago, Inversion said:

I love Fractal Design's cases. Just classy, understated and functional and although they offer lots of watercooling support, their airflow is stupendous.

 

I can totally agree with this :-)

 

I don’t want any outrageously designed case that is overflowing with RGB. However I want enough space for all of the PC components and good options for liquid cooling all of these components. So the Fractal Design R series is - to my taste at least - probably one of the best out there.

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2 hours ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

I can totally agree with this :-)

 

I don’t want any outrageously designed case that is overflowing with RGB. However I want enough space for all of the PC components and good options for liquid cooling all of these components. So the Fractal Design R series is - to my taste at least - probably one of the best out there.

I would agree. I just wish they were cheaper. I can afford the Meshify series but they have no 5.25" bays which I need but the Define R is super pricey

|| CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (@3.9GHz) || Motherboard: ASUS Prime B350 Plus || Cooler: Arctic Freezer 33 eSports Edition || GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 SC || Memory: 16GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB C16 (@2933MHz) || SSD: SanDisk 128GB || HDD: WD Blue 2TB, Toshiba 2TB, Transcend 1TB || PSU: Corsair RM550x || Case: Fractal Design Focus G || Monitor: 2x AOC 23” I2369VM IPS Full HD, Samsung 32" LED TV Monitor || Mouse: Logitech G703 Wireless || Keyboard: Cooler Master MK750 RGB (Cherry MX Brown) || Speakers: Dell Stereo Speakers || Headphones: Sennheiser HD 4.40 BT / Samsung Galaxy Buds ||

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