Case with great air flow

[neieus]

I have been using the nzxt phantom for a few years now and it has served me very well but now I think it's time to make a change. I recently added an additional GPU to my rig for SLI and although I've read about the amount of heat it can generate I never gave it much thought. Well now that I'm running SLI and seen my temps I've had to give it plenty of thought. I'm able to keep the temps in the 65-70 range with a custom fan profile and adjusting the speed of my case fans so I'm not in a panic. A friend of mine has the Corsair Carbide Series Air 540 which looks to be excellent but I was wondering if there are any alternatives? Price really isn't an issue and I'm not interested in water cooling anything. My complete build details or in my sig below.

 

[WildCard999]

The NZXT Noctis 450 cases are really nice. There are two of them, a black with red LED or a white with blue LED.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-case-can450ww1

The Antec 1200 case also has great airflow but I found the thumb screws to be kind of cheap and the plastic on them breaks easily.

 

[mcnumpty23]

so many cases to choose from

how about phanteks enthoo luxe

 

[neieus]

The NZXT Noctis 450 cases are really nice. There are two of them, a black with red LED or a white with blue LED.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-case-can450ww1

The Antec 1200 case also has great airflow but I found the thumb screws to be kind of cheap and the plastic on them breaks easily.

The Noctis while it's different looks like what i have now. The 1200 has my attention now but what about this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133275&cm_re=computer_case_cube-_-11-133-275-_-Product

 

[mcnumpty23]

The NZXT Noctis 450 cases are really nice. There are two of them, a black with red LED or a white with blue LED.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-case-can450ww1

The Antec 1200 case also has great airflow but I found the thumb screws to be kind of cheap and the plastic on them breaks easily.

The Noctis while it's different looks like what i have now. The 1200 has my attention now but what about this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133275&cm_re=computer_case_cube-_-11-133-275-_-Product

like the concept of that--but not sure how well you could hide all the cables in it if you are terrible at cable management like me

my enthoo primo is the first case i have ever managed a really tidy build in

 

[robz0996]

Another Phanteks case to check out is the Enthoo Pro. You also have the Corsair Air 540 if you like a cube style case.

 

[neieus]

I've kind of been looking at the cube shaped cases because lately I've become a bit confused over fan placement. I've noticed that on most if not all tower coolers the front fan is always blocked by the HDD carriage. I don't understand the reasoning of placing a fan there if the air flow will be obstructed by the drives etc. I've personally never had a hard drive that needed to be cooled so the reasoning alludes me. With the cube shaped cases there doesn't seem to be anything in the airflow path.

 

[WildCard999]

The NZXT Noctis 450 cases are really nice. There are two of them, a black with red LED or a white with blue LED.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/nzxt-case-can450ww1

The Antec 1200 case also has great airflow but I found the thumb screws to be kind of cheap and the plastic on them breaks easily.

The Noctis while it's different looks like what i have now. The 1200 has my attention now but what about this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811133275&cm_re=computer_case_cube-_-11-133-275-_-Product

The 1200 is great for air-cooling and has adjustable fan controls (3-speed for top and rear fans/ fan control knobs for each front 3 fans) but the system at full speeds will sound like its about to take off!
The case you posted looks interesting enough but like mcnumpty23 said, the cable management might be difficult and looks messy. Plus for the price you could get a much nicer (IMO) case. The Corsair 780T is a beautiful case or if you want something smaller and portable the 380T is really nice. I just bought one and replaced the front 140mm fan with two 120mm fans. It also supports 240mm AIO cooling and has the rear 140mm exhaust fan.

 

[mcnumpty23]

I've kind of been looking at the cube shaped cases because lately I've become a bit confused over fan placement. I've noticed that on most if not all tower coolers the front fan is always blocked by the HDD carriage. I don't understand the reasoning of placing a fan there if the air flow will be obstructed by the drives etc. I've personally never had a hard drive that needed to be cooled so the reasoning alludes me. With the cube shaped cases there doesn't seem to be anything in the airflow path.

in traditional cases the only place really for a front fan was in front of the hard drive bays as the top half held optical bays

now adays that could change as a lot of people dont use optical drives

and some dont even use mechanical drives so some one may at sometime do a case with only ssd mounting points