Which of the 3 casing is good?

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smorizio
the n500 is the best case of the three for gaming. it has the longest open spot for long gpus as there no hard drive bay blocking where the pci slots on most motherboards line up. also it has the largest openings for liquid cooling lines on the back of the case and on the mb tray has large cable openings to pass a lot of cables through. the nzxt would be next...the case has more 5 inch bays if you need few dvd drives or a card reader. with those extra bays they block you from using long gpus. also the mb tray has very small cable openings for wire management.
the last case is built like and old non gaming case.
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the n500 is the best case of the three for gaming. it has the longest open spot for long gpus as there no hard drive bay blocking where the pci slots on most motherboards line up. also it has the largest openings for liquid cooling lines on the back of the case and on the mb tray has large cable openings to pass a lot of cables through. the nzxt would be next...the case has more 5 inch bays if you need few dvd drives or a card reader. with those extra bays they block you from using long gpus. also the mb tray has very small cable openings for wire management.
the last case is built like and old non gaming case.
 
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Well my purpose is gaming, so Im gonna need a good cooling performance. Im already good with the cases listed above,

Got another question though, if im gonna buy the n500/n400 case with 9 fans installed, will it be noisy? I know that itll give extreme cooling but what about noise? and can a 550 watt Gigabyte Greenmax can suffice those?

i5 3570k
EVGA GTX 650 TI BOOST
asus p8z77 m pro mobo
2 4gb 1333 ram

And If theres 9 120mm fans installed. how many watts can be added to my pc consumption?

Thanks for your answers dude
 
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if you want to run more then two fans look at a 30w fan controller. the simple slider ones will do. when the pc not under gaming load you can turn off the extra fan or slow them down. with your ram use 1600 speed as it standard for most pc gaming system. gskill aries 1866 is the same price as there 1600 most times you can get it for 79.00 or less at newegg.
I can see your trying to game on a fix budget. if your not going to over clock your cpu...you can look at the lock 4570 cpu and a h87 mb and use the savings for a 760 video card. if you can wait a few weeks on your build nvidia maxwell is dropping soon...next gen cards from nvidia. there also the haswell refresh if it happens like last time with intel it will be around april when the new brodwell cpu drop.
 
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went with fully modular power supply so that you could unplug the cables that you not need if your running one gpu and one hard drive and a cd-rom drive. try to stay away from a power supply that has all of the cables connected...you end up with a pile of wires in your gaming rig.
 
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