Help deciding on budget case

C4C

C4C

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So I'm in the middle of purchasing parts for my build. I'm convinced I've got the best price on everything but the processor and case. Waiting for friday to roll around, I've got $50 for a ATX mid tower (micro ATX board). As far as the processor goes it's a different story.. prices vary $75-100.. For my case budget, I've considered 2 cases.

BitFenix Comrade @ $34.99 on NCIX + $10.92 shipping = $45.91
or
NZXT Source 210 Elite @ $49.99 on Amazon = $49.99

I like this looks and features of both and I need some help sorting the pro's and con's if anybody has some experience. Seems to be mainly positive support for both on pcpartpicker.com :)
 
Go with the NZXT.

They are a very good and reliable company. Great build quality, and features.

I also think the Corsair 200R deserves a mention.


If you can stretch your budget, an NZXT S340 is awesome


Looking at your Sig, a Pentium G3258 and a Z97 chip set board would be many times more powerful, and give you an upgrade path to broadwell, whereas the best CPU with that board is a a10 7850K
http://www.microcenter.com/site/brands/G3258Bundle.aspx

Insane deal
 
ninjabubbles3 said:
Go with the NZXT.

They are a very good and reliable company. Great build quality, and features.

I also think the Corsair 200R deserves a mention.


If you can stretch your budget, an NZXT S340 is awesome
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I stretched my budget $10 and I'm getting the 200R... Waiting on some deals tonight/tomorrow though :)
 
But with a budget of $300 and wanting a quad core to render gaming videos for YouTube, this AMD build will be fine. I'm only keeping it for the first year or so of college next year, so by mid 2016 I'll be going Intel with a much larger wallet.
 
Corsair 200R arrived last night and I opened it today. Beautiful case. Very simple and lots of room on the inside along with great ventilation. I'll be doing a review soon.
 
Yeah, its a great case, although the lack of grommeted holes, and lack of space to store my nonmodular PSU bothers me a bit. Its okay now, cuz I've got a modular one in the mail though
 
Yeah. I got the CX600M and it's semi but should work well. Everything arrives this week into the weekend and I've already installed my optical drives and HDD. Very simple.
 
ninjabubbles3 said:
I also think the Corsair 200R deserves a mention.
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ninjabubbles3 said:
Yeah, its a great case, although the lack of grommeted holes, and lack of space to store my nonmodular PSU bothers me a bit. Its okay now, cuz I've got a modular one in the mail though
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Why did you recommend it, then put it down after he got it?



ninjabubbles3 said:
Looking at your Sig, a Pentium G3258 and a Z97 chip set board would be many times more powerful, and give you an upgrade path to broadwell, whereas the best CPU with that board is a a10 7850K
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You do know that the 7850K is just the 860K without the onboard video. Same CPU. Both have Steamroller cores. What makes you think that not any new APU are coming out for FM2+? Plus they overclock very well. And the Intel is not as you say (many times more powerful). I would rather have the 860K.


ninjabubbles3 said:
Still standing by the fact you will not be happy with that AMD build, no upgradability, and not as good as intel
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Same question as above.
 
StrangleHold is actually right on all those counts.. :rolleyes: The Kaveri APU's are still on the FM2+ mobo format...

Personally I'm happy with this 860K. It's my first build, I don't want to do that much OC'ing and it'll do what I want.

It's also newer then the pentium and it'll render better when I'm making YT videos.
Sure I could have gone Intel but my personal thoughts are to not go Intel until your budget is $900-1000+.
 
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