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6/25/12 at 7:51pm
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Hey family,

So I am in the market for a full tower with great cooling options for water cooling and unique design and of course cable management.
Anyway, no to bore you, basically I'm looking at the Phantom as I currently own its little brother the older Guardian Mid Tower. I'm near my limit on cooling and modding for this case even though I made it look 10000000000 time better. You can look at my sig rig to see even though their old not current pictures of the rig. Looking for about $100-$150 range as I am on a college budget. I plan to get the new case
mod it to hell while I'm using my guardian still then transfer the components. Ive got great Ides to make my Deception Transformers theme a hell of a lot better and I thought the Phantom would be a great start. I will start a build thread once I decide. But was thinking of the all black phantom and painting the normal trim areas red to start off my modding. Anyway love to hear alternative cases and Ideas

-sgtgates
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6/25/12 at 8:23pm
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I am absolutely in love with my CM Storm Trooper. By far best case I've ever worked with in 8 years of PC building.
  • Cleanable filters on every fan inlet
  • Good cable management
  • Multiple fan configs (as well as places for rad's)
  • Sturdy carrying handle
  • Mini toolbox in the bottom (i never thought that i would use this and that it was just a gimmick, but i keep all my spare screws, TIM, spare PCI slot covers etc in this thing and its perfect! Everything i need to dis/reassemble the pc is right there)
  • Built in fan controller
  • USB 3.0 front panel as well as eSata

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119245
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6/25/12 at 9:34pm
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Great Option!!. Although I want the new door version with the side window...hmm.. and cm is out of stock atm. I can mod my own too as-well easily.
Edited by sgtgates - 6/26/12 at 8:10am
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6/27/12 at 4:30am
Well I've recently bought a HAF X, although it's a bit over your budget it's big enough for anything you want to put in there in the future.

I haven't received mine yet ( in transit biggrin.gif ) but all the reviews give it very good ratings, regarding cable management and Cooling performance.

Another one I've read good reviews about, was the bitfenix colossus, I was going for one but got the Haf since where I live the colossus is 50 € more than the Haf...

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6/27/12 at 4:34am
The corsair 700D / 800D meets all your requirements except for one, design. It's just a giant box. The 800D's side window is nice though. and you can fit a 360mm rad in it without modding
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post #6 of 7
6/27/12 at 8:18am
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Great options as I have looked at them before, the corsairs are a little too much, full tower wise and are getting to be enthusiast mainstream here it seems like. I wana go with something a little different that you don't see on the mod list every day and for the HAF, of course its got great cooling but again, im on a pretty strict budget and 2 guys in my apartment complex have one not that's their bad! just saying. Storm trooper is still the winner on my list unless any one comes up with something else! Thanks everyone for your input!!
Edited by sgtgates - 6/27/12 at 10:57am
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6/27/12 at 4:01pm
Shinobi XL now comes in pretty white.

700

The non windowed versions can be found for less than $150, and I think the black is usually around $135 or so.
Edited by Michalius - 6/27/12 at 4:05pm
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