Something purple for the wife!

[Chann3l]

I would go with the phanteks. More rad flexibility and their build quality and included accessories are phenomenal. The pro m is basically the same as the evolv atx with different outer styling and panel material from what I understand. The chassis itself is the same I think and if so, it is very well done.

[Hooded]

Phanteks Pro M Acrylic

[dvnoakes]

Forgot to mention why I like each case and what the downfall of each is. I really like the open clear panels of the In Win case. All glass will show off a build nicely. I don't like the one and only place to put a rad in this build. It's up against the front bezel. It can only take a 240mm or 280mm rad up front in one location only. It does have mounts on the back side of the motherboard tray for my 3 SSD's in raid 0. It also has limited hard drive bays but I figure I could just mount one of my Fractal Design hard drive bay assemblies in without a hich.

The Phanteks on the other hand isn't as open of a concept but has a full side acrylic panel that attaches to the frame using thumb screws and is cheaper by over 70 bucks. Not to mention that it's completely water cooling friendly. I would have to buy extra hard drive mounts and instead of using SSD mounts on the backside of the tray I would use the intel PCIe drive in this build or maybe not. LOL

Either choice provides a lot of pro's and con's. No matter what build she gets it's got to be spectacular. She is due for a show computer! She's earned it as well!

[dvnoakes]

Well guys I've come down to two choices for the case build. Out of all the cases that will show off a beautiful build I decided it to be either the Phanteks Enthoo Pro M with full acrylic side panel, or the In Win 805 black case. At this point in time I'm leaning toward the In Win case. Thanks for the assistance on trying to help but in the end it actually took me to go to Vancouver to visually look at a bunch of cases.

[10e]

Though not a huge fan of the company, the Thermaltake Core v31 is actually a great case with lots of mesh front and top. I had one with two 360 mm rads in it.

Another is the Cooler master Master Case Pro 5, and another the Cooler master n400. As is the CM 690 III.

The Enthoo Pro M is also a really good case for the money and a fair bit smaller than the regular Enthoo Pro and can handle a 360mm radiator up top or in front and comes in black or green. It's a lot better looking in real life than pictures.

[P1n10n]

Hum, that makes a lot of specific points. The 3 that comes to my mind are the Corsair graphite 230t, front mesh with 5.25 bay cover mesh imitation, the Fractal design Core 3000 that has front full mesh and the corsair 780t with a front and top meshed section.

[dvnoakes]

Hey guys. I am looking for a good case to do a build for the wife. Something mainly black preferably with some purple on the exterior if possible (I can always Paint or add some graphics on the case in purple if needed). Lots of mesh screens to allow purple lighting from the fan lights to shine through. I also would like to note that I think it should be something "Water cooling friendly" I'm thinking that I have a spare 360mm x 45 x 120 rad and a spare 240mm x 30 x 120 rad to use for this build. (would prefer to use single 360). I've got a MSI Z97M Gaming and a MSI Z97S SLI Krait motherboard to start this build off not sure which one I want to use yet. Combine that with a Corsair RM850 Silence, Gigabyte GTX 970, Intel 750 / 400gig PCIe SSD, i5 4590 cpu and a xeon e3 1231 cpu (thinking she should get the xeon), 4 Seagate Barracuda 3 tb drives and two WD red 4 tb drives. I don't have the ram yet but I will probably go with GSKILL Ripjaw 2400mhz DDR3.

My wife doesn't do a lot of gaming but does do a lot of graphics and video rendering and a lot of 3D cad programs on her computer. That's why she is going to need a lot of storage. Her current computer is a MSI 990FXA GD65 motherboard with fx 8350 cpu, an r9 290x vid card and a Corsair Graphite 600T white case. She absolutely hates her computer! She thinks it's an ugly monstrosity. She thinks it's big ugly and loud. She would like something pretty slightly compact and black. She likes the NZXT Phantom cases but not the size of most of them. I showed her the corsair carbide 540 and she thought it was worse. She also liked the antec 900 but it's not so water cooling friendly.

I think what she actually likes is the mesh in the front with the glow of the fans poking through. (pretty colors) lol

Any and all suggestions welcome!