Recommend A Case

Do you have a price range for the case? To be honest, if you want something that will support liquid cooling, then a case will be upwards around $150. Let us know on the price so that we can give you some options to choose from.

Also, I wanna let you know that I will be selecting products from Newegg.com instead of Tigerdirect.com. No offense, but I like the way that Newegg has their products setup & its easier to read, not to mention that I dont think ive ever heard of Tigerdirect.com offering free s&h on anything ever (now I may be wrong on this). Also never had a single issue w/ Newegg (then again the only time I ordered thru Tigerdirect.com, didnt have an issue either).

Just found out that Newegg.com is offering a similar deal to Tigerdirect on that same exact case, but with free s&h. Lets see Tigerdirect do that!

Ok so looks like im gonna have to eat my words on the first part. Found another TT case thats also a great price w/ free s&h along with 15% off: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133194
 
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I think price will be no object for this build.

At the rate I go it will be obsolete before I do another,
so I don't mind getting higher end components.

I don't have any experience with liquid cooled systems however.

While the total build budget isn't restricted,
the time frame is limited to a max of $500 this month
and $700 every month after, but likely less as that
includes spending on other misc.

I have the funds to get the case now and we can talk about what you think I should get next.
 
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I highly recommend CaseLabs cases. They are handcrafted by a small company in California and are top of the line enthusiast cases.

http://caselabs.net/

I've got a Noctua air-cooled CaseLabs SM8 with future plans to upgrade it to a Koolance water loop.
 
Thanks for the replies.

I had looked at that thermaltake online.

I still really like the zalman cases, but,

Did you guys look at that caselabs link?

Dude, that thing is nuts! It's huge and base price
is $480, but you can put 6 radiators, 2 PSU's and
like 25 fans in it, with a slide out mobo tray
and hidden compartment for disk drives and cables.

Ok, so you can only run 5 radiators if you have 2 PSU's.

Watch the video from the link.

I might be crazy enough to do it. Its so over the top!

Going to take a couple more
paychecks though. We make good money but limit
ourselves to a $350 "allowance" each payday, so I'm
on a fixed income as it were, but I don't care if it takes
a year to build this thing. It will be awesome.

Watch that caselabs video and tell me what you think.
 
omg, it will be like a $1000 case by the time
you get all the options / accessories!

Look through their store. I wouldn't even know where to begin
with all the kits and configurations.
 
GRENADE MAGNET said:
omg, it will be like a $1000 case by the time
you get all the options / accessories!

Look through their store. I wouldn't even know where to begin
with all the kits and configurations.
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It's your money to spend as you like, but I'd much rather put my money into the parts that make my rig perform.

Not saying that the proper case isn't important 'cuz it is. But a great case can be gotten for much less.
 
Starting to get a little intimidated.

This will be my 3rd build.

My last one, 5 yrs ago was 32bit windows XP,
4GB Ram, 512 MB video card, quad core socket 775.
DDR2 RAM had just come out lol.
I don't even know why it keeps shutting down atm.
I recently upgraded the CPU fan and heat sink and put
a 1GB DDR5 video card in it. Too bad I'm running a pci 3 card
in a pci 2 slot. It holds It's own pretty good though.
It will run skyrim with almost no complaints.

When I went to compusa/tigerdirect I was totally
blown away at how outdated my system was.
Everything changed, all the standards were different.
My hardware was discontinued, which makes it harder to
repair.


These guys are talking about quad SLI.
I may need some hand-holding to get through
this one.
 
Puke-N-Snot said:
It's your money to spend as you like, but I'd much rather put my money into the parts that make my rig perform.

Not saying that the proper case isn't important 'cuz it is. But a great case can be gotten for much less.
Click to expand...

It's less a matter of money and more an issue of time.
I could theoretically spend $700 / mo toward it.

I really don't want to build the best system in the world
because they do get outdated pretty quickly and
it becomes a waste of money.

I was thinking more like $250 on a liquid ready case.
 
Some of the CaseLabs cases are over the top in terms of size. The SM8 is the 'small' version of the M8 and it's about the size of a standard tower. Their cases are all function over flash.

They are pricey but designed to be 'the last case you'll ever need'. They are constantly releasing mods and upgrades that make them infinitely expandable.

Be sure to Google the third party reviews and check out the forums if you are even remotely interested. You'll see they are in a completely different league from the 'bulk' case manufacturers.

Case Labs Forum
http://www.overclock.net/f/380/case-labs

Case Labs Owners Club
http://www.overclock.net/t/940461/official-case-labs-owners-club
 
I'll be 36 in April so function appeals to my age demographic lol.

I saw they had some standard type cases. The big box model was over the top.

The adaptability seems unmatched.

I will consider it.

The cosmos II has good reviews. Lot of info to process.
 
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