What looks "plain" to you is appealing to those who want something simplistic yet functional. I like my clean and somewhat classy case look compared to other cases that look flashy and would be more appealing to myself when I was maybe 14 years old.
These Fractal Design cases are great. Even the smaller cases boast great cable management potential and are very build friendly. All while being in a quality built case in comparison to monstrous looking cases built of cheap plastic in all the colors of the rainbow.
i5-3570k @ 4.6Ghz | Phanteks TC14PE | Asus Sabertooth Z77 | Gigabyte GTX 1080 | 16GB Corsair Vengeance
Asus Xonar Essence STX | Crucial M4 256MB | Seasonic X760 Gold | Silverstone FT02
Asus PG258Q 240Hz 24.5" | Das Keyboard 4 Pro | Logitech G502 | Audiotechnica ATH-AD900X | Blue Yeti
Missed this earlier. i5 3570K stock cooler comes with pre-applied paste on the heatsink. Similarly, the H100 also comes with a pre-applied layer on the cooling block - and it's actually some really decent paste, something which can't be said very often about pre-applied stuff. No need to buy any TIM
Ohh right you've got some older parts lying around :P
You can install the Mobo + CPU + RAM, use the stock cooler tempoarily while waiting for the case, PSU, GPU, H100 etc to arrive later.
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