Best case for £50

TechnoCorruption

TechnoCorruption

TechnoCorruption

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Well I have just had a hair raising experience this morning, I bought a budget case and power supply off of the bay and installed my hardware in it this morning, after numerous cuts to my hands due to pointed metal and sharp plastic I turned it on.

Blue smoke out the back of the psu and a bang, naturally I thought the worse and got my gear out of there quick time, luckily everythings alright, the psu must have been real poor as it was only running 1optical/1ide and a celeron with onboard vid/sound.

So anyway, I need a case for around the £50 mark, Im going be upgrading quite a bit in the next week and will have a Enermax 500W to go with it, what do you suggest?

I was looking at the Soprano, is it any good?
 
Looks a bit plain to me, I think that the Soprano looks better, Im sure others disagree :) Whats the build qualiy like on the Thermaltake.

I was also looking at the Antec SLK1650B, Any1 have any experience with this one, I have had a couple of Antec cases before and found them to be quite good.

Edit: Sorry for 101 questions but whats the quality of chieftec like as I can get a Chieftec full tower for 30quid
 
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The site is a competitor so I cant link to it and they dont actually say what model, just large tower. Heres a pic of it though -

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I do like the idea of the high build quality of the LL PC7+ but something keeps drawing me to the TT Soprano, I really do like the design of it and the reviews on the net seem to be mostly positive, I was waiting for the Thursday night specials, but not a case in sight.
 
Its a shame I cant see them both up close first and have a look around the insides, I know there is a big Lian-Li fan base about and that must be for a reason but I just find they look horrible, maybe I need to see 1 up close to change my mind. :)
 
Well I recieved my Soprano this morning :) I really apprciate the help and there was a lot of votes for the pc7+ but after reading about 20 reviews on each case, I picked the Soprano.

Its a brillaint little case and the plastic front doesnt bother me in the slightest, the only bad thing is the cluster of usb/firewire in the roof of the case, to say it was a mission to get my enermax in was an understatement. :)

The tool-less design is a major plus point in my opinion, all hard drives and opticals were in the case in about a minute, also the build quality is reasonably high, the motherboard stand-offs lined up perfectly which was a bonus as I have had cases from antec/enermax and the standoffs have been inaccurate.

Cooling is very good, the 2x120's really do move some air, the other thing I liked is the use of keys to open things on the case, saves the old girl getting on the comp too often. :)

Anyway its defantly a thumbs up from me on the case and I give it a mark of 8/10.
 
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