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Okjoek
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I'm just curious what are the cases out there that offer the most features for a price?

 

Features being literally anything from...

 

Drive bays (Including external!)

re mountable expansion slot covers,

Fan mounting locations,

Cable routing options,

M/B compatibility, 

 

And subjectively does it look good/aesthetically pleasing. Does it have a window of some sort?

Like I said I'm curious to know what some answers will be.

 

 

 

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PowerMac G5 xD 

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JK there are seriously 0 cable routing options in this thing 

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3 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

 

Anything under $50 is a crap shoot, should just buy whatever has mesh

 

Above $50

Fractal Focus G

Masterbox 5 Black
Silverstone RL06 Pro

Coolermaster H500

 

is my short list for cases to buy.

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Coolermaster H500

Have they emptied the stocks of badly made ones yet?

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1 minute ago, Jurrunio said:

Have they emptied the stocks of badly made ones yet?

What's wrong with the new H500?


Did you mean the H500P?

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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4 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Coolermaster H500

I thought the front panel choked the fans on this case...

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1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I thought the front panel choked the fans on this case...

The new one is just a cheaper H500 Mesh without the top panel stuff the P/Mesh have
 

 

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

What's wrong with the new H500?


Did you mean the H500P?

NZXT H500 is alright, CM H500? I doubt.

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Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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9 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Anything under $50 is a crap shoot, should just buy whatever has mesh

 

Above $50

Fractal Focus G

Masterbox 5 Black
Silverstone RL06 Pro

Coolermaster H500

 

is my short list for cases to buy.

The fractal design looks the best to me. It's the only one with any external drive bays (Yes I use them to cut down on dongles and my DVD drive just because it still works.)

 

edit:

*dongles intensifies* @DrMacintosh

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7 minutes ago, Okjoek said:

 

It's time to switch to a USB DVD drive

I edit my posts a lot, Twitter is @LordStreetguru just don't ask PC questions there mostly...
 

Spoiler

 

What is your budget/country for your new PC?

 

what monitor resolution/refresh rate?

 

What games or other software do you need to run?

 

 

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7 hours ago, Streetguru said:

It's time to switch to a USB DVD drive

Most of them look crappy and i have heard they die pretty easy.But there is 5.25 external enclosures that will let you mount a dvd rom in it.And they are about 45 us so same price as a usb one but bigger.

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19 hours ago, Jurrunio said:

NZXT H500 is alright, CM H500? I doubt.

It's basically the H500P Mesh but stripped down further, keeps the dual 200mm fans, and lowers the price to $100. A good airflow case for the price

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