In Pictures: Four Sub-$100 Cases For Your 2013 Gaming PC
In Pictures: Four Sub-$100 Cases For Your 2013 Gaming PC
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Cougar Evolution BO
Ventilation takes center stage in the design of Cougar’s black-and-orange Evolution BO, with side-panel mesh adding to the expected mesh-filled drive bay and front fan covers. A single 140 mm side fan mount remains empty, waiting to be populated by the cooler of your choice, if you want one at all.
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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.
The Phantom 410 was reviewed in a different roundup a while back: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/mana-136-midgard-ii-phantom-410,3203.html
Where is Fractal Design R4, R2 XL?
Those have also already been reviewed.
I agree with you on mATX, Grokem. Mini-ITX may run into thermal problems (did for me, in an actively cooled case), but mATX should be fine.