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Choosing a Good Case

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Sir Joltalot writes "There's a great guide at Tom's Hardware about choosing a good case. They also look at a few very interesting and slick cases you can get and discuss recent trends in modding. A good read if you're new to building computers or thinking about modding a case for the first time." I've been planning to build a new machine for a few months now, so this is timely for me.

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  1. The Best Case I've Used by greg2000 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Would have to be the Chieftec Dragon. It Looks amazing and comes in all sorts of silly colours (Mine Is bright green). Although it's not beyond the capability of anyone here to spray a case. They have Loadsa places to stick fans with little and even throw in a side panel fan (although it sounds like a lawnmower).

    1. Re:The Best Case I've Used by rehannan · · Score: 3, Informative

      I'm not 100% sure, but I think you've got it reversed. Chieftec is the original manufacturer. This same case design is also sold under some other badges too (can't think of the names right now...). Also, I got my Chieftec case at Newegg for considerably cheaper than the Antec version.

  2. Spouting My Opinion by handsomepete · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm a big fan of the Addtronics case line. If I can sit on my tower and it doesn't even slightly buckle, I'll trust my hundreds of dollars hardware in there. Plus they have the most convenient drive rail system I've ever seen. Plus they're decently priced. *shrug* Just my opinion...

  3. Information about cases from a noise angle... by wherley · · Score: 5, Informative

    Scroll down to the "PC Cases" section of this Silent PC resources page for some good ideas about choosing a case when its noise qualities are a factor.

  4. Kind of limited "examples" by Shivetya · · Score: 4, Informative

    One case the combines a lot of his "required features" is the PC-60 by Lian Li. ( http://www.lian-li.com )

    This is by far the best case I have purchased and one of the lightest as well (http://www.lian-li.com/product.php?action=viewPD& prdid=367 )

    Tom's site is okay, but some of their reviews / guides seem as if they were hurried as they don't have many example items, this case review is one of them.

    Anand has a handy index of all of his case reviews, ( http://www.anandtech.com/searchresults.html?topic= 201&action=listarticles )

    Finally Dan's Data did a good write up on these cases http://www.dansdata.com/llmisc.htm

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  5. More cases by Daniel+Rutter · · Score: 3, Informative
    I checked out a couple of the "Hydraulic" cases (here, along with some fancier cases from the same company), and I've recently reviewed some other generally available boxes, as well.

    A couple of links:

    Codegen ATX-9001 server case (rather inexpensive for what you get)

    Lian Li PC-6 and PC-5 (fairly cheap Lian Lis - whoever woulda thunk it? This review links to various other Lian Li reviews of mine)

  6. Re:Heavy power supplies by handsomepete · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here ya go... From Directron's website:

    Why Weight Matters?

    The more appropriate question is why size matters.

    The weight of a power supply is directly related to the quantity, quality, and size of the material (thus cost) used to build the power supply. We opened a light and a heavy 300W-labeled power supplies. The heavy one has larger capacitors, thicker wires, larger transformer, larger heat sinks, more connectors, and more capacitors than the light one, all of which are important factors for the overall cost and quality of a power supply. The difference is illustrated below:

    Lots of pics and interesting info. Go look if you're interested.