How to decide good casing?

• silvercap

  4 Feb 07, 19:54

  How to decide good casing?
• ditzy

  4 Feb 07, 19:56

  Lift it up to the height of your neck, then drop it onto the concrete floor, if it shatters, its not good.
• Ito_^

  4 Feb 07, 19:57

  spacious, material must be good and light. use clipper to hold on to pci cards are nifty features that you should look out for and easy to open.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  4 Feb 07, 20:03

  Good air flow and spacious are my top 2 priorities. Other stuffs come later.
  
  And yeah... no plastics like iCute.
• orionlight

  4 Feb 07, 20:04

  firstly, what is your budget?
• silvercap

  4 Feb 07, 20:23

  Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:

  Good air flow and spacious are my top 2 priorities. Other stuffs come later.
  
  And yeah... no plastics like iCute.

  Why plastic not good?
  Do u mean those transparent plastic side door casing?
  
  I'm using leh
• silvercap

  4 Feb 07, 20:23

  Originally posted by orionlight:

  firstly, what is your budget?

  $80 can get a good one or not?
• Ito_^

  4 Feb 07, 20:24

  Originally posted by silvercap:

  $80 can get a good one or not?

  prepare 200 for a good one.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  4 Feb 07, 20:25

  Originally posted by silvercap:

  Why plastic not good?
  Do u mean those transparent plastic side door casing?
  
  I'm using leh

  The majority of the casing must be made of metal. Not plastics. Plastic side door casing is all right, for aesthetics purposes.
• ndmmxiaomayi

  4 Feb 07, 20:26

  Originally posted by silvercap:

  $80 can get a good one or not?

  Take a hammer, hit it one time and there goes your casing.
• Ito_^

  4 Feb 07, 20:31

  Originally posted by silvercap:

  Why plastic not good?
  Do u mean those transparent plastic side door casing?
  
  I'm using leh

  plastic dun conduct heat well. its supposed to spread em heat as effectively as possible.
  
  and out of practicability, get something dat is light, dat u can carry.
  
  the one im using now is brilliant, but when it broke down.. omg. i tried carrying it to causeway pt before, every 10 steps, i had to stop and rest for a few seconds. even with a handling strap. dun mention when i first got it home, i struggled like hell..
  
  
• orionlight

  4 Feb 07, 20:41

  80 dollars, iCute or those no brand steel ones lor.BTW , iCute casing quite okay, one of my com is using it right now
• Farmerseed

  4 Feb 07, 22:33

  
  
  I will get one with a top discharge fan.
• orionlight

  4 Feb 07, 22:34

  farmer, 80 bucks leh, not 800
• Farmerseed

  5 Feb 07, 06:33

  Originally posted by orionlight:

  farmer, 80 bucks leh, not 800

  I got one with a top discharge fan for S$75. The guy at Funan even told me that he will charge me S$5 less if i do not want the cheap PSU in the case. The picture is for illustration only just in case people do not know what a top discharge fan on a case look like.
  
  The material of the case is one thing but how and where you place the fans is another.