In Pictures: Four Sub-$100 Cases For Your 2013 Gaming PC
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Crashman
April 25, 2013 9:00:03 PM
We invited over two dozen of your favorite brands to participate in this month’s mainstream gaming case roundup. Today we examine a few of the features from the first four samples of the eleven we received.
In Pictures: Four Sub-$100 Cases For Your 2013 Gaming PC : Read more
In Pictures: Four Sub-$100 Cases For Your 2013 Gaming PC : Read more
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tatmmrk2
April 25, 2013 9:39:55 PM
slomo4sho
April 25, 2013 10:16:42 PM
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envy14tpe
April 25, 2013 11:17:17 PM
envy14tpe
April 25, 2013 11:31:05 PM
beoza
April 26, 2013 2:49:57 AM
rolli59
April 26, 2013 6:11:35 AM
iknowhowtofixit
April 26, 2013 6:19:37 AM
furianscott
April 26, 2013 8:35:08 AM
Thermaltake Chaser MK-1 for a cheap case with a company that offers decent support. I emailed Cougar TWICE with a question to their tech department - NO REPLY. Cougar has the worst service I've ever seen (and my question was a pre-sales question, imagine if I'd already bought it - could they ignore people more? I don't think so). Perhaps Toms Hardware could include a "we emailed their service department and this is the time and quality of their response. That would be a cool addition to the testing. Peace.
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resin34
April 26, 2013 9:30:11 AM
allanitomwesh
April 26, 2013 9:40:49 AM
CheesyHotDogPuff
April 26, 2013 4:21:14 PM
longshotthe1st
April 27, 2013 12:05:45 AM
sanilmahambre
April 27, 2013 1:51:04 AM
Valentin_N
April 27, 2013 10:35:47 AM
grokem
April 27, 2013 12:46:31 PM
Every time I read an article on any site about gaming builds I can't help but think of the industry that sells spoilers to bolt onto the back of Honda Civics. The entire industry and media are selling the idea that if you game you need a large ATX case with 9 expansion slots and 4 5.25" external bays and room for 13 3.5" hard drives. The articles about full builds are even worse because they *all* spec a case that will handle two graphic cards, water cooling for GPU and CPU, 19 fans and 10 or more drive bays. However, they are *all* configured with a single ~$400 GPU and air cooled.
Where are the mATX and mITX gaming cases in these lists? mITX has a serious shortage of good cases for some reason but there are a ton of very good mATX cases that will easily handle a single GPU, a SSD, HDD and will easily air cool a Core i7 silently.
If you're into building $2000 or more gaming rigs, great you probably need the room of a full ATX. The other 90% should be looking at mATX and mITX. Nothing looks cooler than a small quite aluminum mITX box sitting on your desk.
Where are the mATX and mITX gaming cases in these lists? mITX has a serious shortage of good cases for some reason but there are a ton of very good mATX cases that will easily handle a single GPU, a SSD, HDD and will easily air cool a Core i7 silently.
If you're into building $2000 or more gaming rigs, great you probably need the room of a full ATX. The other 90% should be looking at mATX and mITX. Nothing looks cooler than a small quite aluminum mITX box sitting on your desk.
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resin34 said:
I think the phantom 410 should be in this list. It is a great case.The Phantom 410 was reviewed in a different roundup a while back: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mana-136-midgard-ii...
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Where is Fractal Design R4, R2 XL?
Those have also already been reviewed.
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pigalol
April 27, 2013 10:40:55 PM
pigalol
April 27, 2013 10:44:48 PM
allanitomwesh
April 27, 2013 11:25:54 PM
chrisafp07
April 28, 2013 8:58:09 AM
Crashman
April 30, 2013 1:56:51 AM
allanitomwesh
April 30, 2013 4:24:26 AM
Crashman
May 2, 2013 12:14:55 PM
JonnyDough
May 6, 2013 7:00:18 PM
I own a TT Chaser MK-1 and a TT Kandalf, and like both, but I recently built a system in a much cheaper and slightly smaller Cooler Master 430 Black Elite, modded it with handles on top, and installed some Xigmatek white led, transparent orange fans that illuminate the interior and glow a bit. Called it the orange box and paired it with my old orange LED lit G15 gaming keyboard. It's a beaut, and quite lightweight.
I'm starting to lean towards smaller cases, love the PSU on the bottom, it makes cable management cleaner. Black interior is nice too, although it would be good to see cases that are black outside feature white interiors as an option as well, which can illuminate components even better.
I'm starting to lean towards smaller cases, love the PSU on the bottom, it makes cable management cleaner. Black interior is nice too, although it would be good to see cases that are black outside feature white interiors as an option as well, which can illuminate components even better.
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Divyanshu Sah
May 15, 2013 4:28:26 AM
AtotehZ
May 20, 2013 5:04:09 PM
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