looking for good budget case (dont need PSU) for my needs.

[flexy]

first,

i know that many people will tell me there is no good case under, say, $70 or so.

But i own an old enlight case for my old system which was ~55 incl. the PSU...and i LOVED this case. great quality, drive rails, even the PSU i used for long time for my old AMD 1900 system.

So....no i am facing the problem i MIGHT need a new case since i build a new high-end PC with a 120mm fan on the XP-120 HSF. This fan can push 94cfm.

So i think i need either a case with airduct or one with 120mm fans in fron, back....my current old Enlight case only has two medium sunon 80mm front/exhaust. So...there's not enough air entering the case ASSUMING i run the CPU fan at max. There's no point in having a 94cfm fan if only 45cfm gets in the case, right ?

My requirements:

* I am on a budget, see above.
* I really like drive rails and the HDD cage like my Enlight has
* I prefer steel
* I dont care about appearance AT ALL, i'd even say i'd do best with a plain
beige case since all my opticals are beige too
* good airflow (Airduct ???) to feed the 120mm CPU fan
* i do NOT need a PSU since i have a nice Enermax 465W PSU.
PSU would be replaced or gets ripped apart for parts
* Quality should be ok/good (at least on enlight level)

 

[fbrdphreak]

bump, interested in this reply also

 

[Denis54]

I am far from an expert but I have read that the ANTEC SLK-3000-B is very good

 

[Nessism]

Evercase 4252.

This is a very nice case with excellent airflow according to the guys at silentpcreview.com.

Good luck.

Ed

 

[Mrvile]

Hmm wow that Evercase makes for a great modding case. The Antec cases would be my suggestion though.