Rage! New Case Needed!

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Hi,

I am raging at the moment thanks to a very ***** attempt at upgrading to a conroe. The motherboard appears to be faulty so I have sent it back to overclockers today. It took me about 4 hours to put all the stuff into the 6 year old case I have and after many cuts I finally managed it, only tofind the motherboard is faulty. And then on top of that Im trying now to put my old hardware back in and finding the exact same difficulties! I would like to meet the retard at Antec who thought it would be a great idea to make a case with no removable motherboard tray and absolutely no space to manouevre even 3 fingers to position a screw in the correct place! If you know of a case that fits my needs that is slightly more expensive, mention it and I may consider increasing my budget.

So here I am now having become so frustrated that I was close to smashing the motherboard and case with my bare hands, posting for help in chosing a new case.

The new case has to have plenty of room, I want as much room as possible! I also want it to be user friendly - a removable motherboard tray or something equivalent so I dont have to be bending over working inside a semi-dark case with no room trying to connect power to the motherboard! All suggestions are welcome, and my budget is no more than £100 - I just want a case that makes my life easier, I like to regularly upgrade, and everytime I do for the past 5 years my current case has wasted my time! Also the new case must use 120mm fans!

Thanks in advance for the help, Im looking to order this case as soon as possible before the replacement motherboard is back!

Cheers

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if you want tons of space to work in, the Eclipse is amazing! it has a removeable motherboard tray, but beacuse the case is so darn BIG you'll rarely use it! Deep enough for HUGE heatsinks, long enough for the 8800GTX, great cooling too.

removing the MB tray is a little fiddly (2 screws, and 4-5 thumbscrews), but as i said, you'll rarely need to use it as the case is cavernously large on the inside.
 
Just ordered the eclipse, cheers guys!

Now Im going to go back and try sort out this pc - just realised the heatsink is on incorrectly, going to go and set it up properly, hopefully wont acquire anymore cuts though! Wish me luck
 
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