Which would you choose? Stylish, or functional case?

Which of the following two cases would you choose?

NZXT Nemesis Elite ( http://www.nzxt.com/products/nemesis_elite )
- Stylish
- Semi-functional
- Light (only 7kgs)
- 223.5 X 515.4 X 562.2 mm

Antec 900 ( http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/antec_900/ )
- Exellent standard cooling
- Functional
- Bottom mounted PSU
- HEAVY (17kgs)
- 19.4”(H) x 18.4”(D) x 8.1”(W)


I'm deciding between the two at the moment and want people's opinions and votes to take into consideration what more experienced people would choose.

I'm going to use it as a lanning computer as well as everyday gaming. I do keep this in my room and the amount of sound the case puts out and glow I need to take into consideration.

I have a Zalman 9700LED that some of you might know ... sticks out a little from the CPU. So that's something that has made me pick between these 2 cases.

All views, opinions and advice are greatly appriciated

Papewaio

The Antec.

Quiter (I believe), better cooling, glows less, and won't fall apart!

Plus, you won't need to go to the gym!

What about the placement of the psu?

I haven't had a case with the power supply at the bottom and don't know the risks/advantages of having it there.

My vote goes for antec 1200

go for the antec 900.
that NZXT case is UGLY.

you are broke and you still wanna buy a pc!lol

antec 900.

haha thats the main reason one of ny mates (happens to be a funny little asian dude) picked it lol


as for the coolermaster 690, i was looking at that but its too small for what i need, i want a little more room to play inside and a see through side the only other thing is cable management, for the time being id just stuff it and let it be, but i have heard the 900 requires drilling and cutting the panel behind the motherboard and can be a little hard ... opinions?

Antec by god. The NZXT is just fugly. Horrible. Its a good case for a bad counter strike player. Don't wanna insult NZXT owner, taste are different i know, but it is ugly. Like those "over-tuned" cars i sometimes see passing by me.

I vote for Antec.

more and more im heading towards the antec 900

-1 for the tempest. its not as good in cooling performance as the antec 900. as both is designed as gaming pc with performance at no.1 priority. but i do like the way the HDD is stored though.

I have three drives mounted in the lower drive bay of my 900. The lower fan sucks air in over the drives and onto the PSU. The PSU fan pretty much has to just take care of itself. The other front fan, the back fan, and the large top fan take care of everything else. I do not have a side fan mounted.

I am running a 650 watt Antec TP3 at around 60% load. PSU exhaust air is less than 2 C. above ambient.

With all the fans set on High, the thing sounds like a freaking vacuum cleaner. Fortunately, at least in my case, higher fan speeds than Low do not improve cooling.

Antec 900 case does not come with a system speaker.

Here's a pretty extreme example - in terms of work - of what can be done with cable management with a 900.:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forum [...] p?t=126395

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The fan controllers are located internally, and they only have 3 settings, low, med & high. On medium hardly noticeable. Swap out the front & rear fans,and buy a fan controller that can be mounted @ the front of the case. You will have to get creative with the cable management. I had to cut hole in the case besides the psu and route the cables through it for better air flow and neatness

Let us know how you like it.

HAHAHAHA 15 votes Antec 900, 0 NZXT Nemesis, the NZXT REALLY is ugly, terrible terrible terrible.

its all installed and looks sexy cable management SUCKS though but thats the way the cookie crumbles