Upgrade and new case - please recommend

hitman · 4 Oct 2013 at 16:57

Phenom II X4 955/Gigabyte UD3H/4GB Patriot Sector 5 PC3-12800 /Sapphire HD 5850/Asus Xonar DX/Intel 80GB M SSD/Seagate Barracuda 1TB /LG 8x Blu-Ray Reader/Antec P183/Corsair 650W ATX/Samsung T240 24" LCD

The above is my current build.
Unfortunately I dropped and damaged my case .
What replacement case would people recommend?
Should I upgrade my motherboard, processor and RAM for office tasks, voice recognition, surfing the net, listening to music?
Possibly video editing in future?

cheers

Cleisthenes · 4 Oct 2013 at 17:47

What is your budget? And what do you use your computer for?

swiftmetal · 4 Oct 2013 at 17:50

Nice and interesting looking and functional case

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Carbide 540 High Airflow ATX Cube Case - Black £114.95
Total : £125.45 (includes shipping : £8.75).

Doomedspeed · 4 Oct 2013 at 17:54

Is it this motherboard you have?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3448#

Shame you can't just throw a 8320 in there

Cleisthenes · 4 Oct 2013 at 17:56

^ thats a good case. Here are some other very solid options.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Graphite 600T Midi Tower Case - Limited Edition White £142.39
1 x Corsair Obsidian 650D Gaming Windowed Midi Tower Case - Black £139.94
1 x Corsair Obsidian 750D Full Tower Case - Black (CC-9011035-WW) £134.99
1 x Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942) £129.95
1 x Corsair Vengeance C70 Midi Tower Gaming Case - GunMetal Black £99.95
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black £94.99
1 x BitFenix Prodigy 'Yang' Mini-ITX Cube Case - Black/White £69.95
1 x Cooler Master HAF 912 Advanced Midi Tower Case - Black £69.95
1 x Corsair Carbide 300R Mid Tower Case - Black £62.39
Total : £1,009.66 (includes shipping : £54.30).

Cleisthenes · 4 Oct 2013 at 17:59

This would be a nice little upgrade, if you aren't interesting in ocing that is

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £119.99
1 x Corsair Obsidian 350D Windowed Micro ATX Case - Black £94.99
1 x Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD 760G (Socket AM3+) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard £52.99
Total : £288.49 (includes shipping : £17.10).

Doomedspeed · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:03

I wouldn't pair that motherboard and CPU up (even if you weren't OCing).

The 8***'s run silly watts under load even at stock, so atleast a 970/990X build!

OracIe · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:04

It can only be the Level 10...

YOUR BASKET
1 x Thermaltake Level 10 GT Visionary Full Tower "Battle Edition" Case - Army Green £219.98

swiftmetal · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:05

That board would struggle with any oc at all and with no heat sinks on the vrms it may throttle a 8320 at heavy loads.

swiftmetal · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:05

Doomedspeed said:
I wouldn't pair that motherboard and CPU up (even if you weren't OCing).

The 8***'s run silly watts under load even at stock, so atleast a 970/990X build!

that too lol

Cleisthenes · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:08

that would be upsetting, thanks for coming to the rescue

an 8320 seems like it would be the right kind of thing for the OP though. Just need to find a solid AM3+ MITX board. (If he wants M-ITX that is)

almighty15 · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:32

Lian Li A10-B...

Very cheap at £89 and has the Lian Li build quality to go with it.

Also has a separate lower compartment for HDD's and PSU just like your old case.

swiftmetal · 4 Oct 2013 at 18:48

The questions of upgrades all depends on you if you feel that your current rig performs to the standard that you are ok with keep it and do not upgrade.

however if you feel that to you it does not serve its purpose anymore then you should and all you have to do is give us a budget and will can spec you an upgrade for your consideration.

hitman · 4 Oct 2013 at 19:44

thanks everyone - some great ideas there
like the look of that open corsair case

hitman · 5 Oct 2013 at 08:36

how much do people think I would have to spend to see a significant difference in my system?

DJ_Bucho · 7 Oct 2013 at 20:15

I've got a Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced and absolutely love it. The only trouble I've got is that it won't take two 3 slot GPU's

but then that's party due to my Motherboard layout and not the case. . .

hitman · 26 Oct 2013 at 04:31

Doomedspeed said:
Is it this motherboard you have?

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3448#

Shame you can't just throw a 8320 in there

My motherboard is the Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H.
What would be a good upgrade on this board?
Or should I be looking at upgrading the processor, RAM and motherboard in one go?