Referalls anyone?

[Scythe000]

Thought I'd create a topic here too despite receiving a reply about cases, cooling and sound card advice in another forum which wasn't receiving many bites. What have here for you guys is a "challenge" if you will.

Below is a condensed version of the spec for my ever changing new behemoth along with the total costs of the top 2 places I've shopped around at and, the spec of my current machine.

I need a case which is £50~150, no larger than 580mm (58cm) in height and 460~480mm (46~48cm) in depth. So far the cases I've been recommended are Coolermaster HAF 932 and CM Storm Sniper, niether of which are adequate.

Intel Nahalem i7 920 S1366 2.66 GHz

Gigabyte X58-UD5 mobo

Corsair DDR3 6GB (3x2GB) 1333MHz

XFX GeForce GTX 260 - Core 216 Black Edition 666/2300MHz

or

XFX HD ATi 4870 XXX 775/3800MHz

Corsair Memory 650W TX or 750 TX

Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black 7200rpm 32MB SATA2

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£953.55 (Dabs)

£872.70 (Scan)

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Current 5 year old comp:

Intel Pentium P4 HT 3Ghz

Asus P4P800-E Deluxe

1GB Corsair DDR 200MHz

Sapp. Tech Radeon X1650 512MB

Maxtor 200GB HDD

Thermaltake Tsunami VA3000BNA Black

Generic 550W PSU

2 DVD drives - normal and a dual layer burner

 

[Mul.]

My vote goes to the Silverstone FT01 Fortress.

A very well built chassis that really looks the part.

 

[PCTwin]

How strict are you on the depth. theres the Antec P182, it' 51cm deep but only 52cm hih and 21cm wide

 

[Scythe000]

How strict are you on the depth. theres the Antec P182, it' 51cm deep but only 52cm hih and 21cm wide

Re-read the post and that should answer your question. :/

 

[Ham]

What made the cases 'not adequate'? Was it just size or features etc?

Cos if you've got size restrictions you may as well just go grab a PC8.

 

[Scythe000]

Pc8?

 

[OmegaStalker]

Pc8?

Hes on about the Lian Li PC 8 case its a nice looking smallish case and is made to a high quality as with all Lian Li...

http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/produc...ex=221&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=62&g=q