Big enough Case

liamhicks · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:05

Hi guys please excuse my nooby status, i come to you with a problem. This friday i will be upgrading my computer (more or less everything) and i have my eye on the Asus ATI HD 6950 DirectCU II 2048MB, my case at the moment is a nzxt i bought from a highstreet retailer on the cheap and wont house this card. I will therefore upgrade my case but need one big enough could anyone here lend some advice?

appriciated liam

Emphacy · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:06

How big are you wanting to go?
Stay in the Mid-Tower region or go for full tower? Also what is your max budget?

P3N9U1N · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:07

corsair 650d and 700d will be big enough, truly massive cases, houses my 590 with a lot of room to spare

liamhicks · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:10

Emphacy said:
How big are you wanting to go?
Stay in the Mid-Tower region or go for full tower? Also what is your max budget?

There is no limit to case size but would prefer to stay mid tower budget wise would be change left over from the upgrade budget but could shift some around to allow for more money to be spent on a case. altho dont want to go to overboard but was just seeing what cases are recommended and people have better experience with.

thanks for the swifty replies

stulid · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:12

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-008-LN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=1447

Emphacy · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:16

Corsair Graphite 600T - White.

Lancool Dragonlord K62 - Red Dragon Windowed Edition

Fractal Design R3 - Black Pearl

Cooler Master CM-690 II Advanced - Is stupidly popular.

These are some of the best quality and good looking cases, they'll all fit your card nicely, but a case is primarily down to opinion.

liamhicks · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:18

stulid said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-008-LN&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=1447

Thanks first case i see and i want it

. looks like a very spacious yet very stylish case only problem i could see is my board power cables wont reach the distance which means a new PSU. in my current case its slightly smaller and the cables are quite taught.

stulid · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:24

liamhicks said:
Thanks first case i see and i want it . looks like a very spacious yet very stylish case only problem i could see is my board power cables wont reach the distance which means a new PSU. in my current case its slightly smaller and the cables are quite taught.

So would this solve it? - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-001-BX&groupid=1929&catid=1898&subcat=

liamhicks · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:29

stulid said:
So would this solve it? - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CB-001-BX&groupid=1929&catid=1898&subcat=

Indeed it would thanks a lot still a dunce when it comes to the little items

stulid · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:31

liamhicks said:
Indeed it would thanks a lot still a dunce when it comes to the little items

You can get a whole range of them - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=1929&catid=1898&sortby=priceAsc&rows=0

KiiYzOo · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:44

what's your budget?

Tomcat825 · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:51

He's got about £600-650 total... with the 2500k, a Z68 board (not fully decided), 8GB ram and a 6950 of sorts (depending on offer change tomorrow) his budget is sitting with about 50-100 left over... so we'll juggle around the various bits and see what case he wants, just spoke to him and I think his heart is set on the Lancool!

KiiYzOo · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:53

I always recommend the 690 ii for that type of budget, as imo, it is the best budget case around

Tomcat825 · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:57

Lite or Advanced?

KiiYzOo · 9 Aug 2011 at 18:58

lite, the advanced only has a few un-needed features over the advanced

Tomcat825 · 9 Aug 2011 at 19:04

Trying to find dimensions atm coz the 2gb 3 slot 6950 is 11.7" :O

liamhicks · 9 Aug 2011 at 19:09

Would like to thank tom for carrying on this chat while i was away

thanks for the replys guys have pretty much in my mind got it down to 2 cases just going to have a look at reviews ect so any personal experience with either 690 or lancool would be much appreciated

KiiYzOo · 9 Aug 2011 at 19:13

stulid · 9 Aug 2011 at 19:23

liamhicks said:
Would like to thank tom for carrying on this chat while i was away thanks for the replys guys have pretty much in my mind got it down to 2 cases just going to have a look at reviews ect so any personal experience with either 690 or lancool would be much appreciated

The Lancool is better made, thicker steel.

More fans fitted as standard.

Includes a side window panel for less than a CM690MKII and a seperate side window panel.

A more tool less design.

The list goes on and on.

Tomcat825 · 9 Aug 2011 at 19:43

Sounds like a good enough list to choose the Lancool to me...