Recommendation for a new case

[chrineal]

This is my current build:
http://pcpartpicker.com/user/chrineal/saved/Bh9Zxr

My current tower's front audio jack broke. I stepped on my headphone's audio cable and it broke the audio jack inside. Is there a way to fix this by just replacing the audio jack(or front panel)? If not then I'll probably get a new case. Wanted a new look anyway.

I thinking about NZXT Phantom 530 full tower. Do you guys know if everything will fit? Planning to add some led fans with the see-through case. Will also take case recommendations for my system. Thanks a lot!

 

[Karadjgne]

Yes, it'll all fit easily. The 530 is a full tower. You could fit that whole build in an ATX mid tower. Its a nice build, if a little older, but if it works well and you are happy with the results, I'd not change anything. Wouldn't hurt to have a larger SSD, or even a newer gpu, but unless you are moving up in resolution, the 690 ain't broke, don't need fixing

 

[frank_hnd]

I wouldn't change the case. it is a perfectly good case and not worth spending a lot of money for a new one.
you can open up the case and see if the audio jack is completely broken or just bended. you can try twisting it back into position. if the little PCB where is soldered is not broken, it should be fixable.

 

[chrineal]

Yes, it'll all fit easily. The 530 is a full tower. You could fit that whole build in an ATX mid tower. Its a nice build, if a little older, but if it works well and you are happy with the results, I'd not change anything. Wouldn't hurt to have a larger SSD, or even a newer gpu, but unless you are moving up in resolution, the 690 ain't broke, don't need fixing

I recently swapped out the 690 for a 1080. Probably should get a larger SSD too.

 

[Karadjgne]

Lol. Doesn't change the fact that it's still a very nice build, with good quality parts and more than enough power to handle anything you can throw at it. The differences between Ivy-Bridge, Haswell and skylake cpus is so small as to not honestly be noticeable to anything but a benchmark. Even the newer kaby-lake cpus will not really improve performance to any huge noticeable degree, they'll just offer more native gimmicks and toys to be used.

Stepping up from a slow hdd OS drive to ssd OS drive is a huge performance difference. Moving from sata3 to m.2 ssd is negligible difference most cannot notice.