Choosing a Good Case

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.

Comments

Information about cases from a noise angle...

[wherley]

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.

Kind of limited "examples"

[Shivetya]

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

Re:Heavy power supplies

[handsomepete]

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.