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Roundup: Four Gaming Cases Under $150

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NZXT adds a hole to the motherboard plate for easy access to CPU-cooler support plates. Another nice touch is the slot-shaped grommets that surround each cable pass-through hole.

Plastic clips that hold external drives in place feel as cheap as they look, but metal pins within still make this a very secure mounting method.

Two of the front-panel display’s three temperature probes split from a four-wire ribbon, while the other is completely separated. These are labeled as System, CPU, and HDD.

A plastic tray capable of holding two 2.5” drives comes pre-installed on a set of 3.5” drive brackets. Additional brackets are found in NZXT’s installation kit.

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  • skora 23 March 2010 13:21
    Good article. But I'm a little surprised that the Element actually found the Buy award. Usually seems like that's set aside for superior products that don't have the QC issues this did.

    I'm sure there will be request for this case and that and across a lot of price ranges.

    If you do enough of these, you could do a "Best Gaming Case for the Money" series. Or is that peeing in Don's yard?
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  • sarsoft 23 March 2010 13:26
    No Antec Nine Hundred case...
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  • p1n3apqlexpr3ss 23 March 2010 13:28
    That wouldnt be a bad idea tbh skora, would like to know what the best budget case is out there... not excactly a fan of the antec 200/300
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  • 4ILY45 23 March 2010 13:30
    No CM 690 II??
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  • bk641 23 March 2010 13:32
    the cm doesn't have a fan control option, afaik.
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  • 23 March 2010 13:36
    Gosh, that Zalman is butt-ugly.
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  • zoemayne 23 March 2010 13:41
    ANTEC 902?
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  • sarsoft 23 March 2010 13:49
    More cases need to be added. There are other case under $150 that are better choices.
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  • bk641 23 March 2010 14:00
    the lancool (lian-li) k62 is a very, very good case for a sub $100 range. i'm using one, and it has pretty much everything you'd want in a mid-tower case. i especially like its HDD bay system, which can be configured to have the hard drives straight on, or perpendicular. in addition to that there are four quiet fans (two on top) and room for two 5870s.
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  • Crashman 23 March 2010 14:04
    sarsoftNo Antec Nine Hundred case...No OLD cases. The Cooler Master case ended up in here by mistake, it was supposed to be for stuff released from November onward.
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