best case for 45ish quid?

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As the title says I dont wnat to spend too much on case but I need a new case for my new pc, my old is ok but i dont like the small ammount of space, i'm searchign for a case that has a gap of 10 cm at elast between hdd's and mobo when they're placed and about 5 cm between psu and top of mobo, atm im mu current case my hdd's are hanging over my nobo and psu is just a few cm's away from cpu hs , so for hdd's i dotn liek the small ammount of space i have for cabling (cables are mess) and for psu area im unsure if its good having hot hardware near cpu... and near sb chip's only coolign (heatpipe brings heat to ribbs above cpu ,to take adavntage of intells stock cooelr airflow), so im afraid whenm i install my new cooler, if the sb chip will burn out, its alrdy too hot to touch (sb chip cool thing) (ps im talking bout the p5n32 sli from asus), anyway i just want a nice case with a lot of space, good cooling and one that has a nice front with a mic and headphone plug and a nice not fully, but partly windowed side, also prefferably one with place for 80 mm fans as I have 5 atm (prefer 2x 80 mm above 1x 120 mm), oh and I dont care aboiut noise/silence.
Its for a high end pc that will be overclocked heavily...
 
High end rig for overclocking in a £45 case?

Gap of 10cm between the HDD's and the motherboard means you need at least a eATX case, and they push £150+.

Have a look at the Antec Super Lanboy, its very small but it covers everything you want, but in a different way.

No way will you get a case with 4cm clearance between the mobo and the PSU, my S80b has 3cm, and a huge panel lower down and the v1000+ would cover everything you want, although its way out of budget.

You have to either flex your spec a bit, or up the budget by about 5x.

You should be looking at these cases really, probably in this order.

Antec Super Lanboy
Thermaltake Soprano
Lian Li PC7+ + Window.
Jeantech Phong

None are to your specification, but all will be a much better option than a case running on 80mm fans, if your buying a new case they are not even worth looking at, 120mm push more air at lower noise levels; its win win!
 
Antec Plusview 2, can be had for around £50.

Has a window, comes with a rear 120mm fan(newest version does, anyway), has some 80 and 90mm mountsfor your other fans and loads of space.

It is the nearest you will get. Heres a pic with a system installed

 
This is a nice case. Built a few PC's with it and can be found for under £30:

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Ok 1st of all thanks for responces, i've been to pc shops yesterday and yes I agree, for 45 cant get much so uppign the limit to approx. 80 quid , just ive always bought value cases as cooling and looks are ok on some of them but space is the problem.

Raikiri: that case has a nice sapce indeed between psu and nobo but i cant have somit liek that for hdd-mobo, last time it made a mess out of my case cos I have 3 hdds and i have a psu that isnt modular so...

In shop i saw some huge coolermaster case (forgot type tho :( ) with huge mobo space and nice side window and it had all the stuff i requested, exept for the fans then but that can be fixed with a convertor, about noise I said I dont care, I tried a delta fan once to see how it is, its acceptable for me the noise (tho cant do much more, the delta is the real approximate limit) but I just need performance and i think 2x80mm can do the same as one 120, i will offcourse not really look into that when buying a case but would prefer just keep my current fans...
 
The HDDs really are not an issue.

If you are that concerned how about a case that has the HDDs mounted sideways?

A cheap case and a well designed case are two completely different things, a well designed one will do much more with the space it has. ;)
 
snowdog said:
Raikiri: that case has a nice sapce indeed between psu and nobo but i cant have somit liek that for hdd-mobo, last time it made a mess out of my case cos I have 3 hdds and i have a psu that isnt modular so...
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Mount the HDs facing the 'wrong' way and route the cables round the back. I have 3HDs in a PC7 and dont have any problems.

snowdog said:
In shop i saw some huge coolermaster case (forgot type tho :( ) with huge mobo space and nice side window and it had all the stuff i requested
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Possibly a stacker or one of the new praetorians?


snowdog said:
I tried a delta fan once to see how it is, its acceptable for me the noise (tho cant do much more, the delta is the real approximate limit) but I just need performance and i think 2x80mm can do the same as one 120
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A 120mm will be able to offer the same airflow than two 80mm fans at lower noise levels.
 
Stacker (1st onbe)
And stacker 810 are my prefferences. (not the 830, exept that its ugly it cools like a 40 quid case)
They both look good, are cool and big.
Akasa eclipse looks too ugly for me i think (i just dont like it).
And dont liek the layout of lian-li cases so that left the 2 stackers.
So i tihnk ill be buyign a stacker, anyone know what other alternatives there are, atm my budget gone up to 100 quid form sales of old parts...
 
snowdog said:
Raikiri: that case has a nice sapce indeed between psu and nobo but i cant have somit liek that for hdd-mobo, last time it made a mess out of my case cos I have 3 hdds and i have a psu that isnt modular so...
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Look carefully at the pic Raikiri posted: that HDD doesn't seem to be mounted all the way into the drive cage: it's sticking out further than the optical drive in the top drive bay, and I've never seen a 3.5" drive which is longer than a 5.25" one! I'm guessing the front 1/3 of that drive cage is empty, and if the HDD was mounted all the way in you'd have your 5cm clearance.
 
rkb442 said:
:) ANTEC SUPER LANBOY :)


Just 34 quid inc VAT. I think its a bargin :D
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O_o... have you even read the OP?

He wants one with a lot of space between the PSU/MB and MB/HDs... plus the Lanboy is out of stock.

\/ not my PC, just some random pic
 
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