Looking for coolest looking case under $300.

[inachu]

When I mean cool it means both in using fans and the WOW factor.

The last case I bout was the antec 900.

 

[chrisjames61]

When I mean cool it means both in using fans and the WOW factor.

The last case I bout was the antec 900.

"Using fans"? What does that mean? Your criteria is both broad and vague.

 

[smitbret]

http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Design...n+define+xl+r2

Use of 140mm fans all around to keep the noise down.

Sleek Titanium without any of the stupid designs that try to make a case look like a robot or alien or mutant or whatever.

Clean look with lots of space to work in.

WOW!!!!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

http://www.amazon.com/Fractal-Design...n+define+xl+r2

Use of 140mm fans all around to keep the noise down.

Sleek Titanium without any of the stupid designs that try to make a case look like a robot or alien or mutant or whatever.

Clean look with lots of space to work in.

WOW!!!!

The Fractal Define had come to my attention in these forums within the last week or so. Stunning -- that you'd find a case with that price using Titanium. Of course, REI and other sources of camping supplies offer items made with Titanium. But -- still -- I'm more surprised after overlooking this feature when I'd seen the case in recent days as I said.

I'm still using CM-HAF 922's, which really don't look all that cool. Since I'm air-cooling, I make good use of the 200mm fans for intake, reducing the dust buildup by thermal speed control. They're actually quiet, and I also mean to include the use of a Gentle Typhoon AP-30 exhaust fan in that assessment for my "flagship" machine. But that required certain "mods."

On the matter of investing in cases. Through 2007, I'd saved money by modding old '90s era PC cases, but the effort, the obsessive attention to "features" and other aspects raised the cost of the result.

I just had an exchange with a Staples technician about the future of desktops. In his view, desktops won't become obsolete, but the high-end desktops may tend in that direction, even as the enthusiasts here at the forums are drooling over the Haswell-E and X99 motherboard releases.

He seems to think that low-end desktops will prevail, because mainstreamers will use software implemented at the "Cloud" level, and we may soon see 60 Mbps internet access become Gbps access.

I tend to invest less money in cases, even with forethought of features strategic to my cooling. I want to re-use those cases, but with the rate of technological change, small form-factor, NUCs and laptops of all kinds, I'm more concerned about my annual outlays for all this technological wonderfulness.

That Fractal case is nice, though, and the price is right.

 

[mathew70]

http://www.mountainmods.com/computer-cases-c-21.html

 

[Blain]

"Cool" went out in the 90's.
Now is the era of function.