Coolermaster RC-1000

I have been looking at these as well, one of the comments made me chuckle

"If the Bomb is dropped I will be safe as houses in this case!! It is that big."

arff arff
 
I know, which is why I wondered why not many people use them out there in their builds?

Maybe because it's expensive for what it offers? Like there's better cases available for the price?

I dunno, I think looks wise it looks great thou.
 
As E-ATX case it has good worknig space around motherboard and design is among quieter designs but its airflow is very intake limited (top fans doing more work for preventing air from getting to hot components in rear than cooling them) with overcomplex HDD cage system, which can't cool many HDDs well, causing good chunk of that airflow limit. Also if you want better airflow for HDDs by moving "intake" fan to top of HDD cage you loose at least one, probably two 5.25" bays.
So for its big outside dimensions it really can't give that much device bays/versatility.

If you're absolutely sure that few HDDs and 5.25" devices are enough and you won't get many expansion cards then it works like any E-ATX case but for actually big amount of devices Lian Li PC-A71 gives more HDD bays and lot better versatility and design itself is very silencing friendly needing only mass damping like bitumen mat for realizing potential.
 
The Cosmos has been around for years and pre-dates the HAF series. It is a very fine case, but it is now considered by most, ‘Old School,’ back in the days when AMD ruled over Intel.

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