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Yeah, Enlight is the best quality you can buy when on a budget...I have two such cases and they have nice features like drive rails along with very capable PSUs.
Bibble - I just got this from Dabs for £26, for use in a system exactly as you describe.
It's well made - just one thumb screw removes the top and then you lift the sides up to remove them. There are a couple of optical drive covers, front USB and audio, and an extractor fan in the roof. No sharp edges inside.
The only possible downside is I don't believe the 400W rating. iirc 3.3V and 5V add up to ~155W. No problems running an XP2500+, DVD-RW & 2*HDD though.
The PSU has a 120mm fan on the bottom, and none on the rear, so its all fairly quiet. A mains lead is included.
The 'oval' shape on the front is lit very bright blue, but looks fairly cool.
Aopen make very decent cases pretty cheap. The QFxx line uses Component Pro PSU while the H500/H600/H700 use the Fortron Source ones (usually the case + PSU comes at the same price as the single FSP PSU...).
I just built a computer using an aopen h500b from pc next day. It's very high quality with thumbscrews, a 300w powersupply with a 120mm fan (is driving an amd 64 and 9800 pro etc) and an air intake directly over the cpu. It also comes with a speed controlled 80mm fan too. http://www.pcnextday.co.uk/product_d..._site=dealtime
I am still using an aopen hx08 case from 6 years ago(maybe older ) ....
The drive bays and sliding motherboard tray are well made.
The original 300watt psu died a valiant death....4 power hungry scsi drives, 2 optical drives, and the ultra thirsty 1.4G athlon was just to much for it..
Well worth the dollars, full tower with a built in theft prevention system...its Fecking heavy
I wouldn't use the Enlight PSUs. We used to have a few cases that came with the PSUs and all of them blew. No hardware lost besides the PSUs, but I wouldn't take any risks.
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