Your views... Case for ~50 quid

[kataras]

So, looking to buy a new case for my pc, which has got cheap probably Tesco Value sort of case atm. anyway dont want to spend too much but round 50 odd pounds. modding and wcooling an option in the future if some free time will be found. was looking at these:

Cooler Master CM690 (£49.99):

Gigabyte Poseidon (£57.58):

Lian-Li PC-7B (£61.66):

 

[Ham]

I;d go for the Lianli.

Have a PC7 here and its a fantastic little case.

 

[equk]

lian-li definately

I have a PC7-PLUS II and it's the best case I've ever had.

Also out of those it looks the nicest and most sturdy.

 

[FarFarAway]

LiLI - £50 for a case of that quality is almost like half-inching one

 

[w3bbo]

LianLI all the way for that price.

 

[Pat123]

Personally i think the posiedon looks better.. But the Lian Li is the better build quality

 

[llwyd]

Lian Li hands down, you'll be glad you did when it arrives

 

[ionicle]

lian li i have

its the best of the selection there

 

[ali_james]

I've got the coolermaster and I think its brilliant.

Have got rid of the rubbish LED fan and the plain fans it comes with don't move enough air for my liking. The wierd looking plastic grating at the top and over the fan at the front I didn't like, so chopped that off. Keeps everything good and cool, I like it muchly

Cheers!

 

[clone38]

I like the look of the coolermaster tbh.

 

[kataras]

soooo naughty of me,,, just ordered Gigabyte Poseidon (in silver, mum said dust wont show as much haha), didnt listen to any of you anyway. i didnt like cm690 as much cause it had fan vents on the side, nor lian li as it looked tooo smart and boxyyy. loved poseidon as it had a side-window (pre-made) but which actually doesnt look too cheap, as its not too big or too small, should show my GTX of wellll... also, the front is like brushed aluminium, so looks MINT! should be with me in a few days, once here, will post some pix

Thanks for the posts guys

Ron

 

[kataras]

Here we go, thats my new Gigabyte Poseidon case there. everythings fitted:

my workstation, with saitek Ecplise 2 keyboard, with Logitech g5 mouse and z2300 speakers.

gigabyte Poseidon case in its glory, ps. cd-rom hasnt been resprayed yet but is in a process

where s da pc hiding, of course under teh table

inside shot gtx, e6320, patriot extreme performance ram, creative xtremegamer soundcard with hiper type-r psu (which i got from mr.smith ;D )

and this is shot of my second table too. can see a few books, geforce stripped 4400Ti, server which is on its way to get colocated and thats pretty much ot. btw mess FTW!

server shot, my old e6750, might actually put e6320 back in, as temp are a lot lower (~30 idle) with it. (E6750 ~50 idle), crucial ballistix, gigabyte g33-ds2r, two wd 160 hard drives in raid0, theres gonna be another 320 gig one, instead of the cd-rom, 0+1 raid array FTW!

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for some reason i had some free time today, decided to take the dvd writter out and spray it grey. found some paint, halfords to be exact, and away i go

two years old this can is, shaking for 10 mins seems to work!!!1!!

and here it is, the plate has been officially pimped havent put it back on yet

Thanks for looking

 

[Kerotan]

Nice the Poseidon looks OK to me tbh, what kind of temps are you getting with it? That logo on the bottom is pretty uber lol. Did it come with those fan't pre-installed, cos the brightness of that exhaust fan is nuts! My Antec 900 doesn't even come close, but I think that's cos the fan blades absorb the light rather than reflect it, cos the stock ones are black.

 

[Syn]

Pretty sexy. Posiedon logo is nice :worship: - you got it just for, that didn't you ;D

 

[nepas]

looks nice,very tidy and clean.

question is will it stay that way?