In Pictures: Four Sub-$100 Cases For Your 2013 Gaming PC

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By Thomas Soderstrom
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PS06 Easy-Access Hard Drive Bay

SilverStone adds a front-loading, single-space backplane where we might have expected to find an external 3.5” bay on traditional cases. A large hinged door covers the 3.5” form-factor hole, and a smaller door guides 2.5” form-factor drives into the same SATA connector.

Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom
Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.
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28 Comments Comment from the forums
  • tatmmrk2
    that side window looks familiar (I have a coolermaster hafx) onlty dfference is size mesh and window color
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  • slomo4sho
    The slideshows... they don't stop!
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  • envy14tpe
    Great pictures but horrible choices of cases. Wishing we could have seen the popular and best ones instead.
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  • envy14tpe
    Great pictures but horrible choices of cases. Wishing we could have seen the popular and best ones instead.
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  • beoza
    The Cougar case doesn't look too bad, the rest are meh. I'll stick to my CM 690 II Advanced case for now, despite it's 2 issues (not enough room on right side for wiring and bottom dust filter) it's a rather roomy case for a mid tower.
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  • rolli59
    Anything with doors or even flaps over ports is annoying to use by my experience.
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  • furianscott
    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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  • g-unit1111
    Interesting choices of cases that aren't from the usual contenders. I like the Silverstone PS06 out of the entire bunch. I like the design of that Cougar case but I do not like the black and orange color scheme.
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  • resin34
    I think the phantom 410 should be in this list. It is a great case.
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  • allanitomwesh
    Lian Li have a beautiful one.
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