Recommend a mATX case...

Dingleberry88 · 11 Mar 2008 at 14:39

I'm going to be building a PC for my sister over the coming weeks, and as I'm wanting something fairly small, I've decided on an mATX motherboard, so will obviously need a mATX case.

I quite like the Lian-Li cases. Are there many difference between the A05, A06, A59 and V600 as they all look fairly similar?

Is there anything else I should be looking at?

A removeable motherboard tray would be handy, but not nessescary.

Thanking in advance.

Narion · 11 Mar 2008 at 14:51

New P180 Mini =) quiet nice looking and has a lot of the features of the trusty p180 just in a smaller box

Dingleberry88 · 11 Mar 2008 at 21:59

Cheers. I'll have a Google around for some info on it.

Any other suggestions?

Tute · 11 Mar 2008 at 22:29

For microATX cases there are a few recommendations.

Silverstone do the Sugo SG01 and the SG03.
Lian Li do the V300 and V350.
Aspire do the X-Qpack.
There's also the Antec suggested above.

Personally i'm a fan of the Silverstone and Lian-Li cases. The SG01 and SG03 are neat little cases. The cooling on them is really good and you can fit a range of graphics cards in them. Personally I think the SG03 has better cooling (120mm fans) but the cable tidying on it is a nightmare, far easier in the SG01.

The V300 and V350 are nice cases as well, although i'd recommend the V350 out of them, as the V300 needs dremelling to fit large graphics cards. It can also take larger coolers than the Sugo cases.

Any more questions, feel free to ask.

***F1ZZY*** · 12 Mar 2008 at 02:57

The Silverstone TJ08 is another consideration, but is not as small as some of the others and very "conventional" in appearance.

Dingleberry88 · 13 Mar 2008 at 13:58

Tute said:
For microATX cases there are a few recommendations.

Silverstone do the Sugo SG01 and the SG03.
Lian Li do the V300 and V350.
Aspire do the X-Qpack.
There's also the Antec suggested above.

Personally i'm a fan of the Silverstone and Lian-Li cases. The SG01 and SG03 are neat little cases. The cooling on them is really good and you can fit a range of graphics cards in them. Personally I think the SG03 has better cooling (120mm fans) but the cable tidying on it is a nightmare, far easier in the SG01.

The V300 and V350 are nice cases as well, although i'd recommend the V350 out of them, as the V300 needs dremelling to fit large graphics cards. It can also take larger coolers than the Sugo cases.

Any more questions, feel free to ask.

I don't really like the look of the Silverstones, and the X-Qpack is hideos!

The V350 looks swish, but despite it being a mATX case it still seems pretty big??

Space for graphics cards isn't a problem as I'll most likely be using onboard, but I'd need enough room to fit an AC Pro 7 on the CPU.

Tute · 13 Mar 2008 at 14:16

I think the Sugo cases are smaller in volume than the V350.

If you want smaller than I highly suggest that's the path you take - either the SG03 or SG01 depending on which you prefer and what the size of the gap you want to fit it into is.

Although I don't think the Sugo models will fit an AC7 - that's more like V350 terrritory.