Cabinets > Tower Cabinets

Advantages: Cool, looks good and is built well.
Disadvantages: Can be noisy, and is cramped inside.

With the Antec 900, you are looking at the best case for gamers who look to overclock their hardware. I bought this case from ebuyer.com for around £80, and have been impressed ever since. The case itself is quite large, and comes prefitted with two from 120mm fans with blue LEDS, one 120mm fan with blue LEDs at the back, and a huge 200mm fan that sits on the top and sucks warm air out of the case. These fans keep the inside of the case very cool, ...
...to change the speeds of the fans, low/medium/high. When turned to high the case keeps very very cool, but obviously it does begin to get noisy at that point. Running them on low is enough to keep it cool and the noise is kept to a minimum. The case also has a front panel in built in, containing two USB ports, one firewire port, headphone and mic port and the reset and power button. I found these to be very useful, especially having the firewire port ... Read review

Advantages: Looks, Airflow, Ease of Use
Disadvantages: Durability of the front panel door

After searching high and low for a case that looked right and could house a full atx board, I found this one. This is a great case which is *quite* durable. Installing my ASUS p5b delux motherboard in this case was very straight forward. All the holes were positioned correctly and the standoffs went in perfectly. The connectors for the front panel were used for USB and audio. These connections are behind a little slide down door which makes it ...
...little problem with this slide down door. After moving it a few times all of a sudden I heard a snap! To my amazement, the part of the door that keeps the door shut had broken away. Therefore, I can no longer close this door, without it sliding back down. This is a very minor thing though, and I'm not too fussed. The motherboard connectors for the front panel were able to be inserted into my motherboard correctly, without having any issues with ... Read review

Advantages: Easy to work with and great cooling
Disadvantages: Some complications depending on your situation

...from my motherboard, and obviously Thermaltake have opted for a retro fit to cover users with boards that can't power this many fans. On to fitting, after following the instructions removed the hard disk bay, easy to do tool free with a thumb screw, once out there is ample room to work in this case. Next stop remove the floppy disk bay, again following instruction it was very easy and tool free, a simple locking switch needed moved, creating yet ...
...I get to work, at the front removed the blanking plates on the inner door for my drives, then on the case itself I removed the metal case blanking plates, these require a screwdriver and are simple to take out. I then proceeded to fit my power supply as this case doesn’t ship with one, very easy access with no other hardware in the way, there was lots of room to slot it into place and secure with screws provided. Motherboard installation is fairly ... Read review

Advantages: Screwless architecture, aluminium, cooling
Disadvantages: minor imperfections

-----| Reason for purchase |----- I'm very much into computers and I have a pretty good system, however my old case just looked ugly and wasn’t very practical. I also wanted a case with a window, so I could make use of the UV cathodes I had and such illuminating products. This case is also very well made and a long lasting product, which is exactly what I needed. -----| First impressions of setting up the case |----- First thing to note was ...
...which was a letdown but not a massive problem at all. Everything else went in fine quickly and easily, more on this later. Next problem was getting the power supply in, my supply is of a reasonable size, Antec TruePower 430W but I struggled to get it in, you would definitely have to remove the motherboard to replace the power supply at any time. Big power supplies may take a considerable degree of faffing about to get it in but I'm sure you could ... Read review

Advantages: Well made, good manual
Disadvantages: Not a cheap case; doesn't include power supply

This is a high-capacity standard sized desktop case with a clean appearance, which has room for 5 DVD/CD drives or similar sized devices and up to four hard drives, which mount sideways in a drive cage in the bottom. No tools were needed to open the case, remove the side panels, or install drives and video card. Guide rails for hard drives are included whch just snap on, and there are spring clips to hold expansion cards firmly. The case had two ... Read review