Good case deals?

Slickone

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Coolermaster RC-534-KWN1
Does anyone know of a better deal on a steel or Al case similar to this style? ie. NO FRONT DOOR (I can't stand them), silver or black, fan in front and rear (120mm preferrably), and sufficient front grill area for airflow.
The only problems I have with this one is it doesn't come with a PSU, and it looks like there's some sort of picture on the window (anyone know?). The same case on Coolermaster's website doesn't show the window to see.
And a few reviews at newegg say it doesn't flow well. I always wonder why many cases now, especially the Al and steel cases, don't have a lot of intake grill area.
FYI there's also the silver one.

The next step up in the RC-534 line is $60 at SVC, but only seems to add an LED fan, and while the picture shows side fans, the description doesn't. Also no window (not really a big deal to me for what I need this case for). And on Coolermaster's website, the description mentions 1 side fan, but the pictures show 2. Is this company kind of screwed up?

There's also the Coolermaster RC-531-KKN for $35. And a couple BTX ones for $35, but I assume they require a BTX mobo which I'm not sure I'll get.

BTW, does anyone know of a good deal on a PSU?
 

Zepper

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It's only good depending on where you live - on the left coast it's a good deal while over here, shipping puts the boot to it.. The Rosewill R6A series with free shipping punts it for over here. And we have a Hot Deals section just for this purpose. The "I wanna" thread there covers your topic.
 

Slickone

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The cases and cooling section covers my topic too.

Well you can't ask questions in the hot deals section, the search doesn't work well, there aren't that many case deals there anyway, and the ones that are, are all cases with front doors.

I've never gotten a reply in the 'I wanna' thread. And it takes me forever to find my post later.

I'm in TN. The shipping on that first case is $22.

"The Rosewill R6A series with free shipping"
Never heard of it. From where?
 

Slickone

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Anyone?

BTW, what happened to the cool cases Kingwin used to make? They all have this stupid looking front door thing on them now.
 

John2583

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Where is this "I wanna" thread. I am looking for suggestions similar to this guy. I want at least 4 internal 3.5 hdd bays, no doors, ideally aluminum case w/ PSU for around 60-80 or 30-50 w/o PSU. I am using it to run a 939 based fileserver and game server for use at LANs and such. I'd like it to be kind of square looking ie, literally square w/o curved bezels and fanciness. I actually like the Coolermaster he linked to above a lot except it's steal and weighs 22 pounds.. (10kg). I'd rather it be 10 pounds so it wouldn't be such a pain in the ass to lug around to LANs and stuff.
 

Slickone

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I can't remember where the "I Wanna" thread is and can't find it, but from what I remember, it was if you're looking for a certain item in particular and can't find it anywhere, people will point you to it. The thread was so large, I don't think many people looked at it. I didn't.

The Cases & Cooling thread is for asking for advice on and discussing, for one thing...cases.
 

chuckm

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Originally posted by: Slickone
The cases and cooling section covers my topic too.

Well you can't ask questions in the hot deals section, the search doesn't work well, there aren't that many case deals there anyway, and the ones that are, are all cases with front doors.

I've never gotten a reply in the 'I wanna' thread. And it takes me forever to find my post later.

I'm in TN. The shipping on that first case is $22.

"The Rosewill R6A series with free shipping"
Never heard of it. From where?


Newegg
 

Slickone

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Ah.
I don't like the looks of the Rosewill R6AU6. Besides, Newegg charges me tax, which why I was looking at SVC. ZZF is an option too.
But I do really like the R6AR6-SL, but the bad thing is Rosewill is only sold through their Newegg, and they don't seem to sell it anymore, even though it's still listed at rosewill.com Text

BTW, I now have an Antec True Power 2.0 480W, so I don't have to buy a case with a PSU.