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Reviews for PC ATX Cases?

Jason asks: "Well, I am stumped. While there are hundreds of sites for PC case modding -- water cooling, titanium-alloy, pyramids, etc -- there appears to be no sites I can find dedicated to simply reviewing ATX cases. Case manufacturing seems to have come a long way, with many successful vendors (and imitators). Tom's Hardware, Anandtech, et al, might cover an especially significant case here or there -- but where is a general source of information for Luan-Li, Antec, Superflower, Enermax, CaseTek, Inwin, Cooler Master. Geez! They all have their varying price points and obvious style lineations... where can a geek go to get some comprehensive info?" If no specific site has such information, feel free to use this space to make your own reviews of ATX cases. What sites are the best for finding information and/or reviews on the latest PC cases?

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  1. Antec cases by The+Bungi · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I'll chip in with my $0.02. I buy mostly Antec cases at Fry's Electronics. They're really great - but get rid of the crappy fans they include. They're noisy as hell and vibrate like crazy. Get an Antec along with good fans and you'll be OK.

    Then again there's not much science to cases at that level, unless you go to the high end. One of my boxes at home is an older Gateway and it comes with the most kickass high end (non-moddy) case I've ever seen. Can't tell the manufacturer though.

  2. Re:Don't sweat it by SN74S181 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some of us only buy a case or two and use them for years. It doesn't pay to put your expensive hardware in the cheapest case/power supply you can find. Those $35 case/power supply combos are fine if you just run common easily replaced hardware. If you've got expensive hardware, i.e. data acqusition and MPEG capture boards, you don't want the power supply to smoke it all. And that's what cheap power supplies are all about.

    If you're a light duty gamer sort whose hardware goes obsolete ever six months, that's probably not a problem.