Silent Sleek Midi Case for <£150?

Nexus18 · 26 Nov 2018 at 19:37

As per title.

Case will be housing:

- sapphire vega 56 pulse
- MSI tomahawk b450 MB
- ryzen 2600 with wraith cooler
- 1 SSD
- 3 x 3.5" mech hard drives (going to try and drop to 2)

Needs to be silent, cool running and sleek looking with a window.

Like the look of these:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/nzxt-h500-midi-tower-gaming-case-black-window-ca-191-nx.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...k-tempered-glass-cc-9011132-ww-ca-23x-cs.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/cors...w-mid-tower-case-cc-9011049-ww-ca-173-cs.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/raij...m-midi-tower-case-black-window-ca-035-rt.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/nzxt-source-340-midi-tower-case-black-window-ca-152-nx.html

Nexus18 · 27 Nov 2018 at 21:20

Thoughts?

TangoEchoAlpha · 1 Dec 2018 at 00:46

I've got the 450D as my current case. It's an OK case, I certainly wouldn't describe it as quiet though, especially with the included fans.

I like the look of the Raijintek out of the options you've given.

Nexus18 · 2 Dec 2018 at 20:01

Narrowed it down to these cases now:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phanteks-enthoo-evolv-atx-mid-tower-case-black-ca-029-pt.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phanteks-enthoo-pro-m-glass-midi-tower-case-black-ca-063-pt.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/frac...ower-case-black-tempered-glass-ca-07f-fd.html

TangoEchoAlpha · 2 Dec 2018 at 21:45

Nexus18 said:
Narrowed it down to these cases now:

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phanteks-enthoo-evolv-atx-mid-tower-case-black-ca-029-pt.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/phanteks-enthoo-pro-m-glass-midi-tower-case-black-ca-063-pt.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/frac...ower-case-black-tempered-glass-ca-07f-fd.html

My money would be on the Enthoo Evolv out of that lot. Any reason you didn't go for glass on the Enthoo?

Nexus18 · 3 Dec 2018 at 06:33

TangoEchoAlpha said:
My money would be on the Enthoo Evolv out of that lot. Any reason you didn't go for glass on the Enthoo?

Don't want to be spending that much

Unseul · 3 Dec 2018 at 07:59

I've got a meshify. The fact it's rather open means I'd not necessarily be classing it as a silent case, but with a good fan setup, it keeps everything cool enough to basically run at silent when just browsing etc. Stock cooler on the 2600 might make it trickier, they can keep them cool, but hit high revs, which can get noisy (at least that's my experience of the 2700x).

I'd recommend losing the stock fans that come with the case though, they aren't strong enough to overcome the mesh at the front. Buy a twin pack of the phanteks 140MP from overclockers (£16ish), put them at the front, and that should get you laughing. I've put on of the stock fans on relatively low revs (spins up when needed), at the back, to try and smoothen the flow from my tower cpu cooler to the outside of the case.