As far as the Stacker, Cosmos, and Silverstone TJ's I can understand leaving them off since they have been beat to death with reviews and monthly system builds by just about every hardware site. And of course since case prices vary $80-400 in this article its more like a random sampling(with 100’s possible no one is ever going to be happy).
Personally I would not buy much of anything not made by Lian Li or Silverstone (of course with some exceptions like the NZXT Khaos and maybe Stacker EVO). If it has plastic, paint, too much steel, flimsy aluminum, poorly designed ventilation & vibration control or gaudiness I would not touch it with your motherboard. I tend to see a quality case as more of an investment and I often reuse cases for multiple system rebuilds. Sometimes you have to cut corners to stay on budget but putting a good computer in a cheap/dysfunctional case is like putting a luxury interior in a Yugo... Some of these cases are OK but there is not one that I would buy. Even for Lian Li and Silverstone they are some of the less popular and more obscure models. The Zalman at $399 is a joke with the best feature being that you can see and read "Zalman" from every possible viewing angle lol. You can get a far better “high end” case $100-200 less.
As for the comment about the PC-B25 and the complicated HD mounting... get real. It has the same system as my Lian Li PC-V1010. Screw in 4 screws to the drive with 4 rubber grommets and slide the drive into the rack. It's simple, secure and vibration free. I guess you would rather have regular mounting screws or the cheap, easily broken, plastic mounting system of the Chinese cases that even have a mounting system? The Lian Li solution (also in LanCool) just works and you won't need any sort of anti vibration kit for your drives. I don't really care for the PC-B25 design but I would assume it is as vibration and noise free as mine. My Lian Li does have ESATA connections but who cares. If anything the panel has too many connections resulting in a massive bundle of cables sitting in the top of the case. I don’t know about you but I prefer to have my wiring mess behind the computer with the convenience of maybe a couple USB & a firewire in front.
Personally I would not buy much of anything not made by Lian Li or Silverstone (of course with some exceptions like the NZXT Khaos and maybe Stacker EVO). If it has plastic, paint, too much steel, flimsy aluminum, poorly designed ventilation & vibration control or gaudiness I would not touch it with your motherboard. I tend to see a quality case as more of an investment and I often reuse cases for multiple system rebuilds. Sometimes you have to cut corners to stay on budget but putting a good computer in a cheap/dysfunctional case is like putting a luxury interior in a Yugo... Some of these cases are OK but there is not one that I would buy. Even for Lian Li and Silverstone they are some of the less popular and more obscure models. The Zalman at $399 is a joke with the best feature being that you can see and read "Zalman" from every possible viewing angle lol. You can get a far better “high end” case $100-200 less.
As for the comment about the PC-B25 and the complicated HD mounting... get real. It has the same system as my Lian Li PC-V1010. Screw in 4 screws to the drive with 4 rubber grommets and slide the drive into the rack. It's simple, secure and vibration free. I guess you would rather have regular mounting screws or the cheap, easily broken, plastic mounting system of the Chinese cases that even have a mounting system? The Lian Li solution (also in LanCool) just works and you won't need any sort of anti vibration kit for your drives. I don't really care for the PC-B25 design but I would assume it is as vibration and noise free as mine. My Lian Li does have ESATA connections but who cares. If anything the panel has too many connections resulting in a massive bundle of cables sitting in the top of the case. I don’t know about you but I prefer to have my wiring mess behind the computer with the convenience of maybe a couple USB & a firewire in front.
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