[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Sandwich
I heavily second Turnsky's Lian-Li recommendation - they're widely accepted to be the sweetest cases out there - and they follow the less is more school of design thought.

that, and they come with lots of thumbscrews as standards.

[Vertigo1]

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If you're going to spring for a new case, get one with a decent power supply.   of times, its actually cheaper to get one WITH a power supply than one without.  Buying a case without a power supply is sheer stupidity unless you already have one handy.  Also, keep in mind to accept nothing smaller than 350 watts.  Thats with running a modern processor, motherboard, and video card combo.  Right now I'm running an Athlon XP 2800+, half a gig of RAM, a GF3 Ti200 (not exactly the biggest power hog in my system, I'll give you that), two hard drives (both 7200RPM), two burners (one CD-RW and one DVD +/- RW), one FDD (used sparingly), with six or seven fans running (counting power supply, video card, and CPU fans).  All of this off of a Fortron 350W power supply and it has absolutely no trouble at all handling this load.

[pyro-manic]

Antec 1080AMG. Comes with a 430W PSU, I think they're about £80. Very good quality, and lots of space.

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Turnsky
Lian-Li's a good sturdy brand of cases.

Without a doubt.  take it from Turnsky and get a LianLi case.

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Stealth


Without a doubt.  take it from Turnsky and get a LianLi case.

*speaks from experience*

[Vertigo1]

Yes, but you pay out the ass for a Lian-Li case.  Some people don't have money growing on trees.

[Stealth]

That is true.  And what makes a computer good isn't the case itself.  The case is the smallest component of a computer compared to the motherboard, processor, hard drive, RAM, etc.  but if you can afford a good computer case, the Lian Li is what you need to go for

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Stealth
That is true.  And what makes a computer good isn't the case itself.  The case is the smallest component of a computer compared to the motherboard, processor, hard drive, RAM, etc.  but if you can afford a good computer case, the Lian Li is what you need to go for

yeah, i shelled out extra for my Lian-Li 'cause i wanted it to last a fair while, it should do the job nicely until ATX becomes horribly obsolete