I'll be rebuilding my computer soon. Old Core2 duo deserves retirement. God did that chip serve me well, what a nice chip it was.
Anyway, I will probably be following a lot of Chaud's suggestions for his i5 build. One thing I'm not happy with is the case. The cheap little store branded USB key-drives I buy every other week (when I lose mine) are usb 3.0. I feel that usb 2.0 is unnecessarily handcuffing oneself, and installing a usb gizmo into a 5" bay is a waste on a new build.
Since Chaud always recommends the HAF, I'm thinking the HAF 922. I'm just wondering if the community can get me closer to my $75 range. If not this case looks quite nice and the price is close enough. Feel free to say that it is the best feature/value, and tell me to stop looking.
Requirements:
Front usb 3.0
Decent cable management (at least the proper cut-outs)
Big enough for modern mid/high gaming graphics cards.
Not required:
Fancy lights.
Rubberized cable holes
Other fancy stuff.
Tool-less drive bays. (Nice to have; I like tool-less, but would rather whip out a screwdriver then deal with a shoddy constructed one)
Thanks guys.
I'll probably be back once I get the internals in order just to make sure I don't pick out any mismatched or bottlenecking hardware.