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Any Good Black Desktop Cases?

MoMeanMugs

Golden Member
I built a home theatre PC using an Antec 1030SX but have decided it's a little too big and want something I can put on my component rack. The only real things I am looking for are:
relative sliminity (I felt like making up a word 😛)
black
7 I/O slots
just one or maybe two external 5.25" bays

This thing is just going to house a Celeron 600@900 with a Radeon 8500, Philips Acoustic Edge, 10/100 NIC, DXR3+, and a firewire card. No special cooling is necessary as I want this thing as quiet as possible. I would think a 250 watt generic PSU would do it. Anyone seen anything like this around? I have looked but an unable to find anything black or even anything that looks like it's steering away from the "I look like @ss" column.
 
Here's what I'm using for that same project. It's got front USB ports and input and output for stereo from your sound card...

My system will be finished by weeks end and include a P3 500 OC'ed to 750 with 512mb RAM and Xtasy Everything Personal Cinema and 80GB Seagate (quiet) Barracuda IV drive with SB Audigy OEM and Logitech Z-560's. Painted my Lite-On 16x DVD and 24x burner drives black so they look sweet with this... Now all I need is something big to hook it up to... its hooked up to my 21" monitor and 20" POS TV right now.

I know the case ain't completely black but it looks like an entertainment center component and has some front plugs for ya... You can get this particular case for less from here but I'd highly not recommend using them since it took them 39 days to get me mine (and a lot of calling them several times a week since they sent my drives unpainted and tehn sent them back with two tracking numbers... one on the inside that never got scanned and they claimed it was the case package...but UPS doesn't have tracking number as having ever been scanned into their system so eventually I had to fight them on it and they sent me my case a week and a half later. Still won't refund the shipping costs for their mistakes and untimely business... guess I'll never see that... be careful in buying from them).
 
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