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Mid size cases with a door... ahhh kids...

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brotj7

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Does anyone know of a few cases with doors? We currently have the older style aluminum lanboy with the blue lit front fan and open grating that our 2 yr old loves to play with. I loved it because I could route unneeded/too long cables to the tool holder area.

Needs:
-Under $200, of course cheaper is better
-Mid Size
-ATX mobo
-Good Airflow
-Basic black and unappealing to kids look
-Space for Mirrored SSDs, Mirrored storage drives and 2 bluray combo drives
-Space for short to medium length GPU (Geforce 670???)

Nice but not required
-Cut out mobo slot to get cpu heatsink on and off would be awesome
-Cable mgmt cutouts
-Key for the door --on our P180 it's enough to keep ou oldest out of the case.

Thoughts:
Our lanboy is 16.5h x 17.1Dx 8.2w which leaves about 2-3"h, 4" D, 1"w unused in our open air desk. I'm assuming only a mid size case will fit this space.

So far I see the Antec Sonata but it doesnt look like I can get enough air into the case to OC without it sounding like a wind tunnel.

Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks all.
 
My server is running in a Sonata 3 and I've recently built a D3 box for a friend using a Sonata 4. Although both are amazing cases you can forget OCing heavily.

The Sonata 4 has a nice side intake on the back panel which I found really nice bit it's just not enough airflow. However, both cases let you lock the front with a key.

Sometimes, when you have a kids at that age, you just have to put overclocking to the side for a bit.

In any case, I highly recommend both the Sonata 3 and 4 for non-overclocked builds or the Sonata 4 with a light/medium OC (if setup well).

Others will chime in on cases which have lockable doors I'm sure.
 
lsv:

Does the version III and IV still only have the little slot at the front bottom for intake like the V1 did years ago?

Do you happen to know if the elite version has air coming in? It looks like the HD's will have plenty of free air, but I don't see where the rest of the case gets air because of the solid wall between the HD bays and the PCI/PCI express slots. I'm looking at neweggs 7th picture. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129057
 
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