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in case you missed them we've done a few

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best bang for the buck roundups for the super budget conscious lately and today

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that dollar menu gravy train keeps on flowing baby you've got your cheap

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gaming peripherals all which means now it's time to start building your cheap

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gaming pc so we teamed up with newegg to

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test seven of the best rated cases on

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their site for under 35 bucks before

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sale or rebate pricing zotac's magnus en 1070 mini gaming pc

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comes vr and aaa game ready check it out now at the

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link below

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we'll be judging the cases in order of their popularity on newegg.com based on

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three main metrics one compatibility how much can we

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comfortably stuff inside are there any component size limitations to take into

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account two performance does the case have airflow

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issues how many fans can you mount can you mount a radiator and three injury

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factor are there any sharp edges i'm like gotten sliced open is it awkwardly

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top heavy oh and actually for a 10 bonus

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extras and aesthetics these aren't necessities at this kind of a price but

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they're certainly nice to have so first up is the

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micro atx zion

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x310bk it's the most popular case in our

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roundup and it's certainly the cheapest at just 23. but

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that may be its only selling point it's

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pretty sharp looking it includes a usb 3 port it's sturdy enough and it's

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extremely lightweight but installing anything but a mini-sized graphics card

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is a carnival of frustration and sadness

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and oh yeah there's this thing the screw retaining it is on the inside

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and it just swings out of place to install a card also while the box claims

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that it has five and a quarter inch bays

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they're mia but the rails are there

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making usable space so tight that it's

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almost impossible to mount the power supply and cable management was even

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worse the cables just kind of hang out at the bottom of the case and

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there's no top or side ventilation thermal performance is utter balls

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there's nowhere for the heat or even air to go

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not recommended we'd actually prefer a milk crate off ebay and some zip ties

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instead next up is the full atx logisus

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cs350bk which is both solidly built and

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thoughtfully laid out for a design from 2003. to its credit it

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comes with a power supply but the claim that it can handle

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330 watts of total continuous load

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is probably this thing won't be powering anything

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north of a gtx 1050 ti and even for that

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i wouldn't recommend it now the cases rolled edges help with preventing injury

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but they aren't totally pinched off and there's also these break off pci slot

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covers and a rear i o shield to contend

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with otherwise there is plenty of space in

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here which is good but there's nowhere to throw cables so

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managing them is a chore the aesthetics of the case other than

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the glossy plastic are fairly inoffensive so that also is good but

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with only a single intake fan for cooling this case pulled off some of the

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worst thermals in this group and that is

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saying a lot not recommended our third most popular

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case is the micro atx xalman t3 it's a

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little cramped to work in but it's also the first in our roundup so far with a

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semi-reasonable modern layout the edges

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are pretty smooth and the overall fit and finish is okay

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the reset button's mushy and this is starting to look like a pattern here

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actually there is only one usb 3 port on

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the front panel again rather than the two supported by the motherboard header

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i mean i guess copper prices are going up but geez you guys

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building in it though was mostly painless the hard drives can only be

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accessed by removing the front panel for some reason but the two and a half inch

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SSD mounts are easily accessible and there's actually quite a nice amount of

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cable management room behind the back panel

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there's no included radiator mount but up top you will actually find cutouts

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for use with an external radiator an old

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feature that dates the core design here a little bit it's a touch gamery looking

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but overall this case has pretty excellent thermals mesh covered fan

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mounts and clean cable management recommended

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on to the compucase voyager

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where is the voyager going somewhere far away i hope this is a

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midi computer case that i would rate a meh d

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out of 10 on its looks alone the front panel is adorned with brightly colored

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headphone and mic jack straight out of 2005 the power button kind of looks like

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a cigarette lighter and when your pc freezes you can call team rocket with

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this button right here inside isn't much to write home about

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either it's a very early 2000s style with a top mounted power supply taste

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the rainbow style front panel cables and very little room for cable management to

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hide them there aren't really any sharp edges but with these breakaway pci slot

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covers and its thin metal construction you'll be creating your own soon enough

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drive bays line the entire front of the chassis which means that you will need a

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dremel for a large high performance graphics card not that you should be

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putting any decent gear in here anyway our CPU got super toasty without a fresh

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supply of cool air not recommended

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in the number five spot is the apex sk3 and you know what who

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cares it doesn't matter i'm calling this one the disappointment not only does it

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look like a 2005 piece of steel junk

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it's got so many sharp edges that i had to dish out hazard pay to the unlucky

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sod who built the system in it and anyway there is nowhere for cables to

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hide so have fun with that the pci slot

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covers are tear off without a tab to wedge a screwdriver into so you'll be

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using your hands and while there's a 120 mil fan mount in the front of the case

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and an 80-92 mount in the rear

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both of them are unoccupied by default

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so out of the box the power supply acts as the main exhaust this thing's an oven

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not recommended wow

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most of these suck so far next up

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is the diy pc jax 12 bk which uh

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huh actually doesn't look too bad it's got a

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nice clean aesthetic as long as you're into pandas a single usb 3 port on the

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front panel with a twin usb 2.0 to boot

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and on the inside it's even got a shroud to hide the power supply and three and a

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half inch bays and you can see them through a nice wide acrylic window

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the full atx layout is as open as you could want with SSD mounts to the right

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of the motherboard and i mean really all we're missing here is a radiator mount

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and some topside ventilation both of which can be remedied with a dremel and

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some time the construction is sturdy though with rolled and smoothed edges

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throughout and we've also got a huge area in the rear for hiding all of the

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junk in the trunk it's not an ideal config the breakaway

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slot covers are a good example of this as is the minimal clearance above the

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motherboard but it is leagues better than everything else we've seen so far

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and perhaps unsurprisingly then it's thermal performance is pretty good too

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with 120ml fans on the front and rear complementing its wide open interior

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highly recommended finally we've got the cougar

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the cougar mg 110 another micro atx case

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we've got single usb 3 and usb 2 ports on the front and on the rear we've got

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those blasted breakaway pci brackets on

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the interior though we've got smooth edges all around and it looks like that

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five and a quarter inch bay is tool-less too with a nice little handle labeled

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gaming we've got a 120mm case fan pre-installed

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on the rear and we even get space on this one for a 2 by 120mm radiator on

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the top if you remove the yes removable

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optical drive mount there's also a removable three and a half inch hard

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drive tray and a decently sized area in the rear panel for cable management

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complete with management points and two and a half inch SSD mounts thermal

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performance was actually stellar too owing to the clean interior and decent

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placement of the exhaust fan and copious ventilation holes recommended again so

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overall then what we learned today is that the one with the most votes

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might not actually be the best choice in all cases

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the cougar mg110 was the best case overall and our pick for an matx build

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with the jax 12 over here creaming the rest of the competition if you've got a

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full-sized atx board the zalman t3 then

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gets an honorable mention for sucking a lot less than the rest of them and as

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for the rest of them

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the sennheiser 58x from mass drop uses

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sennheiser's new 150 ohm drivers making these headphones

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easier to power from devices like your cell phone than their predecessors the

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emphasis of this particular set is on clean extended bass with a smooth but

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clear upper range they've got soft velour ear pads with elliptical ear cups

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that i know it's crazy follow the anatomy of

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the ear round on an ear i don't know where that

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idea ever came from but not with these they come with a handy detachable cable

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and they're available now on mass drop for 159.99 us with free shipping to the

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