PCgamer81 :
I am not over exaggerating.
I bought a Cooler master Elite 430 - without a doubt the worst case I ever owned. I have vowed to never go that route again.
It is made of some real thin metal that wobbles real easy. I can grab it on both sides with my hands and move my hands back and forth (towards me and against me), each hand in a different direction, and watch the case go back and forth (when empty).
When moving my rig, even carefully, I can see the tower sides move. The USB ports and headphone/microphone jacks are now so out of whack it's unusable. I don't have enough room to add decent cooling for my components, and something is always going wrong and becoming dislodged. Tri-fire? Forget it. I almost never got crossfire to work, and there is virtually no place for all my cords.
A $40 case when I bought my $1600 rig.
I will never, and I mean NEVER, make that mistake again.
So Blaze, no offense, but I don't want to hear it.
No offense taken, but just because one case was like that does not mean that all or even most of them are like that; there are a few exceptions. I've also seen expensive but flimsy cases too. However, most computer cases, regardless of pricing, are sturdy.
I have a case that I spent $25 on to be a temporary case for a build until I got my next pay check. It has a lot of storage and expansion (six internal 3.5" slots, two external 3.5" slots, four external 5.25" slots, seven expansion slots), has a lot of room for cables and such, a several fan slots (although it only comes with one 92mm rear exhaust fan), and is very sturdy. Now it doesn't have top fan slots and it has a top-mounted PSU, so it's obviously a low end case, but it is sturdy. It's USB/audio ports have no issues.
I'm not recommending, just saying that it didn't have issues. I've used it for a month in one machine and over a year in another. That has been my typical experience with most cases like it. I've used similar cases for numerous very low end builds for clients, although I think that I'll give that RAIDmax or my other suggestion a try. Now that I've thought about it, even in very low end builds, another $5-15 for a better case seems like a good idea.
I've never used that Elite 430 and I think that that's a trend that I'll stick too; thanks for the warning. However, to be fair, you were using a very high end build in a low end case. Chances are that even a great low end case would have been inadequate for that.