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

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By Thomas Soderstrom
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MS800 Plus Drive Support

Trays on the MS800’s three-drive backplane support 3.5” hard drives on silicon-dampened pins, and 2.5” drives without the noise dampening. This is probably a smart design since most performance builders reserve the 2.5” drive factor for noiseless SSDs.

The seven un-filled 5.25” bays have two-pin quick installation brackets on one side, with twist latches allowing easy removal. Sliding tabs with hole-locating divots secure the opposite side of optical drives.

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.
25 Comments Comment from the forums
  • animeman59
    Where's the HAF XB?
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  • halcyon
    Nothing that's nice looking IMO.
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  • Madn3ss795
    Bitfenix Shinobi FTW!
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  • Madn3ss795
    Bitfenix Shinobi FTW!
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  • ubercake
    Cases are ugly. Sure they can have nice features and such. But as I've said before, this is a perfect opportunity to get the Tom's models in on the action.
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  • chrisafp07
    The Fractal Design R4 is under 100 sometimes :)
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  • de5_Roy
    among these, i like the enermax and rosewill cases. rosewill more than the enermax one.
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  • RedJaron
    Shame that more cases don't have eSATA on the front panel. I know some people prefer USB 3.0, but why not have them both?
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  • _deXter_
    Don't like these cases at all. Basically I hate the fact that cases hide so much of the beautiful hardware inside the PC, and make it hard to work with them, to be able to touch and feel them. I've always been running a no-case system, but I would really like something basic so it's convenient to carry it around.

    Does anyone know where I can buy a case like this one here:
    http://i.imgur.com/5NFQtho.png
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  • Crashman
    Better question animeman59: What's wrong with you?
    halcyon, if you don't like these there are seven more in the 11-way comparison, 4 in the past and 3 on the way!
    chrisafp07--and it's already been reviewed "sometimes" http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/corsair-obsidian-550d-fractal-design-define-r4-gigabyte-luxo-m10,3356-5.html
    Guys, I've never had to say this before but I'm really looking for a higher class of question. I know you can do better because I've seen it in past articles.
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