Best case I buy is a $9 generic midtower from Salvation Army. Take off the side panel, and put it in the closet. Put it on your desk with the motherboard facing you, so you can access all the parts. I put mine on bread racks against a wall, with the motherboards all facing out towards me for easy access to all the parts, ide cables, dimm slots, etc.
Despite what all the idiot experts tell you, the best cooling for a case is with the side panel off to open air. Put your side panel permanently in the closet. You don't need to buy a million dollar case with a million noisy little fans that can fail.
The only exception where you would leave the panel on (and I've argued with this with many, many so called exeperts) would be a rack mounted server cases with fans in the front and fans in the back to blow air through. In such a case you leave the panels on, because those are designed to blow a torrent of air from the front out the back.
Otherwise, all desktop cases, work best with no side panel on at all. All that talk about proper air flow so the fans can pull air through to cool all the parts is total rubbish.
I also turn my CPU fan around to blow air out instead of at the CPU, and then make a venturi to go around it out of index cards to blow the hot air out the open side of the case. So what you create in effect, is a vacuum cleaner sucking heat out at the center base of the motherboard and jetting it straight out the side with no obstructions.
Another thing to do, is take CPU fans off of old 486s, and mount them on your Northbridge chips, as most northbridges are just heatsinks with no fans on them, and the desperately need them. Computer manufactuers think their equipment will run in a house with constant temperature of 72 degrees... such is not the case in my house, we let the temperature ride with whatever is going on outside in the summer time. So a little 486 fan on your northbridge or the heatsinks on your router and cablemodem when the temperature in the room is 95 degrees is a necessity.
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