Case upgrade from Eclipse 62 to?

Soldato
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Hey guys, probably a little overly done here, but really have no idea on cases these days ive had this original first gen Akasa eclipse 62 for years, but showing its age in terms of cooling with only 2x120mm fans 1 front and 1 rear.

Ideally im looking for something similar in terms of looks, which seems to be most of the cases i see lol, size wise again on par or close, usb3.0 connections and more importantly cooling, but then again i suspect most cases these days will beat the eclipse 62 in that regard.

Budget around 70ish
Will be housing an i5 rig, 6850 graphics, 2 HDD's not SSD and then the usual stuff.
I know this is probably subjective to looks and personal preference, i dont have any brand preference, colours prefer black but others could work oh and fan choices for the case too, again this thing is running ancient vantec stealths i originally bought with the case lol.

Also not sure on the difference of having the PSU at the bottom vs the top - but with that said i like the Zalman Z9 ones, but no removeable tray?
 
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Its quite annoying really isnt it, the Eclipse is such a nice case, with bucket loads of space and simple clean lines, but just falling behind on the cooling side of things, im too drawn to the Bitfenix cases for some reason, not sure on the ghosts airflow from the front though.
 
Oh yea dust is a nightmare in my Eclipse, not sure how it does it but its terrible, and with only 2 fans it gets warm in there - im sort of leaning towards a bitfenix of some sort, looking at the ghost or the Ronin which isnt out yet, they look similar to the eclipse sort of, if you squint anyway lol, the shinobi also looks ok.
 
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