Best Computer Case ?

which full tower computer case do you all think is a good one? thermaltake? coolermaster? looking for one that has good airflow and quiet as possible. looked at thermaltake speedo and its seems pretty good. does anyone have any hands on experience with this case?

 

Kinda depends on what you are wanting to do with the PC, and what your budget is. I like the Antec 300, but is a mid tower case, but very roomy and well designed. Thermaltake makes some nice cases, I did have an issue with a Soprano case and a full sized GPU, nothing the tin snips could not address. :-D

 

This has been one of my favs. as far as looks goes.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5550536&CatId=1510
But as stated by Fred, it all depends on what you intent is. If you're worried about heat, to my understanding, liquid is the way to go. You can get a nice custom buuilt PC, liquid cooled for under $1000.

 

its going to be for gaming so thats why i want a case that cools good. also i will be watercooling in the future. I'm running a crossfire setup now and plan to upgrade in the near future to a new MB and CPU. i just hate to buy a case and find out that it doesn't cool as good as it advertised. thanks for everyones replies.

 

I have had good luck with a few differnt cases.

The Antec Dreamer X has been a little warm, but never moves more than 10 degrees F up or down. (contains a highly overclocked GPU, CPU, and RAM.

I have an off brand full case that I used a drill and dremel on and that cools extremely well. The main cooling for that one is the scyther ultra craze 120mm fans that I added to the case beyond the orriginal fans.

The other case that I found to be a good one was one that was a full tower sized made custom of plexi glass and wood. Again a custom rig.

If you know what you need, and you got an old case laying around to sacrifice, then just go custom. You cant get a much cooler case in aestetics or temps. Use the housing for the Harddrives, DVD drives, and the mounting paterns for everything else. At worst you shell a functional case. At best, you have something completely built by you and custom your needs and tastes.

Only you can find your best match. My only factory case in use, the Dreamer X, was hated by alot of people because of the lighting (neons on fans) being so bright at night through the side window in the case. I still like it and even added more custom lighting.

 

You know where performance is concerned most of the cases I've seen fall short and it doesn't seem to matter how much you spend,£50 cases can have many more fans and better layout than a case four times the price.Most of your money goes into the looks of the case and build quality and even then it can be hard to separate the build quality of upper end cases.

I've never seen a cases that couldn't be drastically improved by modding as Nibblesdacat said,not one and it doesn't matter who made it.Just make sure it has lots of fan mounts,the more the better,even if you don't use them all it will give you options and save time if you decide to mod it.

So yeah IMO don't shell out a fortune expecting an amazing performing case your mostly paying for the looks and name.

 

I have built a system for a friend with two GTX580 cards in this case. (this will take 3)

http://store.nvidia.com/DRHM/store?...dia&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&productID=221671900

He is really satisfied with it and it comes ready for water cooling but at $110 it is not cheap.

Remember you are going to put some very expensive kit in the case so you want one that works.

 

I like this one, but it ain't cheap. http://www.mnpctech.com/casemodblog/2011/03/09/thermaltake-level-10-gt-case-review/

 

Ooooooh i want one of those Fred :drool

 

Or its daddy: http://www.thermaltake.com/product_info.aspx?PARENT_CID=C_00001541&id=C_00001542&name=Level+10

Only $700 at Newegg.

 

Case in point:-D My case cost £60/$120 if I recall it has 3 140mm fans,2 120mm fans and two 80mm fans.

550 spare beer tokens to spend on performance hardware.

 

I'm considering this case http://www.compusa.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4197077&CatId=1510

i love the cable management in this case. take a look at the video in the link,it looks pretty interesting.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9196&cm_re=storm_scout-_-11-119-196-_-Product Is the case i use for most my high end builds, love it.

 

the video in the link shows inside the case pretty good. the whole inside is painted black which is nice too.