What case for £70 ish?

Le_Petit_Lapin · 29 May 2008 at 11:41

Consiudering getting a new case, the one I have a YY-0420. Its big, its heavy, and it just takes up too much damn space. I bought it when I was interested in watercooling and all that, plenty of room for that in there.

but, I don't use the watercooling any more, it was just excess to requirements once I switched to a Core 2. No longer interested in overclocking....well, not trying to get stupid scores in benchmark programs at least (causing endless motherboard resets).

Obviously I still crank up the CPU a bit, may as well after all, but nothing beyond what air cooling can handle without too much noise.

I'm left with this massive coffee table / PC case that is just too big for what I need, and I fancy downsizing. So I need a case that will take 3 x internal HDD's, 2 x Optical Drives....er.....and that's about it really. Everything else is pretty standard stuff. No SLI, not massively long Graphics cards to worry about. Quietness would be preferable, so 120mm fans would be good, as well as a speed controller (if possible, can always go aftermarket, probably got a few lying around somewhere myself).

So....what case for £70 ish?

Kearney_1988 · 29 May 2008 at 11:57

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...=Lian Li PC-A05B Aluminium Midi-Tower - Black

if it were me

k3v1n · 29 May 2008 at 12:19

I second the A05, great little case.

Have a look at the A05 thread.

gt_junkie · 29 May 2008 at 12:33

3rd'd... A05 is a lovely looking case.

The PC7 is also a lovely case for the money. A bit larger but certainly not big.

gt

TheVoice · 29 May 2008 at 12:37

I've got the A06, fundamentally the same as the A05 except for the front bezel, and the rear fans (A05 has a 120mm, A06 has two 80mm, albeit only comes with one). It's a nice case, little bit rattly sometimes though where the side panels don't fit very tightly. Cooling isn't too great either, I have 3 HDDs and because of the way air flows in the case - in from the back, out through the front - they have all the hot air from inside drawn over them by the front 120mm fan.

Very tempted to pull the case apart and change the fan orientations so the airflow is the normal front-to-back set-up, but it'll be a hassle. Don't think my 8800GTS is helping things either, it runs very hot.