Cases

Phanteks’ NV7 is well equipped for massive components and sports unique features for an extremely clean look. Just be sure to budget extra to bring your own fans.

Combining a unique wood-and-mesh front and lots of airflow-focused features at an affordable price, Fractal's North case stands out both in design and airflow performance.

The Lian Li Lancool 216 is not the average budget case. It’s one of the best budget case sof all time.

The Fractal Design Ridge is a unique and slim ITX case, but its design limits CPU cooling performance.

NZXT’s H5 Elite bridges the gap between pretty glass and component-cooling airflow–by adding one to the front of the case.

The Azza Aero 480 case offers a boatload of RGB for less than expected, but in testing, its thermal performance wasn’t as good as you might expect.

Montech’s Sky One Lite packs RGB, a hinged tempered glass side panel and a mesh front for about $100. But does its performance stand up to the budget case competition?

On paper, the Ssupd Meshroom S looks like the most versatile SFF case ever. But it’s expensive at $160, and complicated to build in if you veer from a traditional ITX layout.

Lots of mesh and four 140mm fans

The Fractal Design Pop Silent is impressively quiet thanks to sound-dampening foam, but we’d prefer better cooling, even if that meant adding a few decibels.

Phanteks’ Eclipse G360A makes it clear that a case doesn’t have to cost a lot to be truly great. With good airflow, three PWM aRGB fans and a light strip, there’s a lot to love here for $100.

Quiet airflow? Count me in.

Lian Li’s mini-ITX Q58 case delivers a brilliant layout to achieve a compact, yet thermally capable ITX system. It looks pretty great, too.

Antec’s P82 Silent isn’t an exciting chassis, but sometimes that’s exactly what you’re after.

Antec P10 Flux: the most likeable boring case.

Although Thermaltake’s The Tower 100 isn’t the most practical case, it’s joyfully weird and doesn’t cost much.

Cooler Master MasterFrame 700 transforms from creative showcase to practical test bench in a matter of minutes.

Silverstone’s Sugo SG14 is a chassis that allows a wide range of ITX build configurations, but where it scores well in modularity and versatility, it falls short on materials and excitement.

Corsair’s 5000X RGB chassis offers glass on four sides, but has a neat trick up its sleeve to keep cooling performance in check.

Can’t make up your mind? The be quiet! Silent Base 802 offers silent performance with lots of damping, but also a mesh front panel.