a good cabinet for my gaming rig

coldbreeze16

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Oct 30, 2012
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I'm building a gaming rig with following specs

Intel B75 D3H mobo
Core i5 3550
Corsair Vengeance 4 GB RAM (1X4)
Seasonic SS750 JS PSU
1 HDD + 1 DVD RW

I'm building this right away because of an ongoing 10% discount. I'll add a Sapphire Vapor X HD 7950 and another 4GB RAM in a couple of months. I was also thinking of doing some litecoin mining so I suppose I might even add another 7950 later down the path. I guess all the components can hold out for at least 5 years including PSU (Hopefully 750W would be enough for 2X7950).

My problem is, which cabinet to go for right now because money is a constraint and I don't plan on getting another one anytime soon. My original choice was NZXT beta EVO but it seems it supports GPU upto 10.5" while 7950's are 11". Any other options withing the price range of beta EVO? Antec 300 probably?
 

g-unit1111

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Do you already have the motherboard? Because if not I would go with a full H77 ATX - B75 will be incredibly limiting in terms of future expansion. But if you do that it could drastically alter what case you decide to go with. Do you want an mITX rig or do you want a full / mid tower?
 

coldbreeze16

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Since size is immaterial, mid/full tower is preferable. The only constraint being the price. I'm also thinking about Cooler Master N300. Looks good so far. Apart from the extra 7950 and another RAM stick, the only possible upgrade I'm thinking about is an SSD: B75 looks good so far. IDC about USB 3.0 or RAID, 1 SATA 6.0 Gbps is ok. Can you mention why H77 is more preferable? Actually the only bottlenecking thing I can imagine is the unavailability of two PCIe x16@x16 slots (any MoBo with that offering is way beyond my limits).