Originally posted by: Sonikku
I don't want to spend a ton of money, I would be happy with something simple and elagent. I'll be running one video card, one harddrive and two sticks of ram so it may not have to have the most refined air flow in the world.
I think you'd be silly paying $150 for a P180 with that minimal of equipment inside of it. Originally I was going to get a P180 myself but a) I can't get over the 'fridge' look, and b) seems like everyone and their grandma has one so I'd rather pick something equally well that is more 'out of the norm'.
Get a Lian-Li A05B. (or if you want a silver one, A05.)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...p?Item=N82E16811112130
$99, free shipping. (the A05 is also $99 but they're still charging for shipping on it...$15)
It's a standard ATX, not a micro ATX like it appears. Check out the inside...the psu mount is at the front under the 3 3.5 bays, which is why the case is 'short' (but 'long') instead of tall and skinny like regular ATX midtowers.
Inverted mobo and reverse airflow (intake in the rear, outtake in the front near the HD - 1 120mm fan in each) is better for your cpu + gpu.
I just bought one Friday, I'm expecting it tomorrow (hopefully, if the UPS fairy is nice to me

). It'll be my first Lian-Li case, but I've always heard they make excellent, high quality cases.
And I'm putting a whole lot more in it when all's said and done.

(once I order everything at least; for the time being, it will house my 3 year old P4 3.0C system with a Radeon 9500, 3 hard drives, and an 8x LiteOn dvd burner.)
Later this fall/early winter it will house a Q6600, Gigabyte P35-DS3R mobo, Tuniq Tower, eVGA 8800GTS 640meg, 4 gigs of Patriot ram (2x2), it'll have 2 SATA hard drives, dual 20x LiteOn dvd burners.