Which case to get

[jim5000]

So, finally decided to take the plunge and get myself a new case. The current case is 21 years old and rocking a Ryzen 7 5800x, I think it's time the externals caught up with the internals.

However, having not purchased a PC case for 21 years, I'm a little bewildered by the options. My shoping list is

• Good thermal performance
• Mesh front
• Quiet
• Bottom mouted PSU (with dust cover)
• metal (not glass) sides
• Roomy for standard OCUK style CPU coolers (nothing massive but not tiny) and decent graphics card (currently Radeon RX 5700)
  
• No RGB
• Ideally black colour

Budget is up to £100 and happy to purchase a few extra case fans.

Can anyone recommed anything that matches all of the above?

 

[clone]

Have a look on the clearance section of ocuk you may find a bargain there mate.

 

[Cooler running]

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Phanteks Enthoo Pro Mid Tower Case - Black= £94.99
• 1 x Fractal Design Meshify C Mid-Tower Case - Black= £86.99
• 1 x Silverstone Fara R1 Mid-Tower Case - White= £44.99

Total: £245.09 (includes shipping: £18.12)
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Due to stock the best fit isn't in stock, but would say one of these cases is probably the closest fit. Non-windowed cases are becoming quire rare now days, so it's not as easy as it sounds to match all of those parameters.

 

[Loveless]

Corsair 270R is a very nice and cheap case if you can get one, since Corsair discontinued it (fools). The front is not mesh but in Gamers Nexus (and other) review it had excellent tempertatures, surprisingly...