New case for sandy bridge build

[michaela]

Looking to build a new sandy bridge system but struggling with which case to get. Which case would give me the best starting point.

 

[KaraMurat]

Depends on your wishes mate. There are simple, extravagant, WC focused, AC focused, small/medium/large - haha sounds like I'm a salesman.

But yeah, I can't just randomly recommend a case:

• Are you interested in water or air cooling
  
• Do you have a limited budget
  
• Do you like simple and elegant or extravagant and crazy
  
• Any particular cases you have been looking at
  
• Certain requirements - windows, fan mounts, sound dampening
  

Try to understand what you require and decide from there, here's some cases you can look at:

Fractal Design Define XL

Fractal R3

NZXT Phantom

HAF X

CM 690 II

Xigmatek Utgard

The two you listed (Silverstone Raven RV02B-W / Bitfenix Colossus)

 

[michaela]

Thanks for your post

I have a budget of £130 for the case I will be air cooling at first hopefully with a noctua NH D14 so need something to fit that, water cooling would be a plus if i ever got the nerve in the future. not to bothered with looks just good air flow.

 

[michaela]

Thanks for your post

I have a budget of £130 for the case I will be air cooling at first hopefully with a noctua NH D14 so need something to fit that, water cooling would be a plus if i ever got the nerve in the future. not to bothered with looks just good air flow.

 

[tinytomlogan]

The Silverstone will be your best bet for a white Air case from those two.

If you want to keep watercooling as an option later then take a look at the white Coolermaster 690 II Advanced.

I have reviewed it and use it atm as my heatsink test bench.