Help me decide on a case please?

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im getting everything in the next month or so and everything is sorted on the internal hardware side of things or i can quickly decide what to swap seeing as there are many pieces of hardware with different prices that do exactly the same thing. so ive a hit a bit of a brickwall choosing my hardware. i cannot choose a case. i have looked at all of the cases on offer at OcUK and many elsewhere. here is a list of the main ones im looking at:

Fractal R2
CM 690 Advanced Dominator II
CM 840 ATCS
one of the CM Cosmos cases
Silverstone TJ07
Silverstone FT01
Antec 1200

so out of this list which would you go for? or a different one perhaps?

my spec at the moment is:

i7 930 with NH-D14 cooler, Powercolor 5870 PCS+, Asus P6TD MB, some OCZ Gold DDR3-1600 memory and a Corsair HX 750W PSU. plus all the other bits and bobs like wireless card, drives and fans.

so the case needs to be nice and cool and big enough to fit the massive heatsink. also i would like to add more fans to the case and i suppose i need a fan controller for that so i need to be able to fit one of those easily.

thank you for reading this and i hope you can help me come to a decision about the case.

one last note; i dont really want a super expensive case thats over £160.

thanks,

Jake
 
Haven't owned any of the above but have worked on a Cosmos. I'd avoid that one, but that's because I like cases which have a compartment for the psu. Cable management wasn't the best in the cosmos I saw and the side fan limits space for the CPU cooler
 
Stayaway from the Cosmos 1000 case, it looks great but suffers from poor ventilation. The Antec is a good case, but the HAF932 is better. The ATCS 840 is a nice case as is the Silverstone.

I have an overclocked i965 in a atcs case and a i920 in a haf932 and I am pleased with both. The Haf is cooller, but the ACTS is quieter and looks great.
 
lets put it like this:
JET ENGINE:
Antec 1200

SILENT:
Fractal R2
one of the CM cases

NORMAL CASE:
CM 690 Advanced Dominator II

Massive:
CM 840 ATCS

Professional but silent:
Silverstone TJ07
Silverstone FT01

I personally have an atcs 840 and do not recommend its too big and too loud for my liking, i would go with a lian li or an silverstone.
 
thanks for the replies guys. so i should go for a Silverstone? im not really sure on the looks on the Silverstones TBH. and the lian li's either. though i do like the look of this one. and this one.

im really drawn by the sleek looks of those 2 Lian Li's and the CM ATCS.
 
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