Antec 300

I recently bought a Antec 300 mid tower case as part of a new PC build for myself. It is fantastic value ($97 AUD), with excellent build quality and well thought out design. The case is strong and without sharp edges. I did check out a lot of cases including Coolermaster Centurions and Lian Li Dragon Lords. What I like best about the Antec 300 case is the design work has gone into functionality not the unnecessary bling you see with so many cases. Also the excellent ventilation with the full face grill with dust filter and the two fan bays in the front. I'm glad it doesn't have unnecessary mounting kit rubbish for the HDDs. So happy with this purchase I had to post about it.

Here's a review of the case:

So far I've also bought a Antec Earthwatts 650 PSU and two Seagate 500 SATA drives (ST3500418AS) to run in RAID0. With the release of the i5 CPUs I'm not sure what to do with the CPU and motherboard - whether to go AMD Phenom II AM3 955 BE or i5 750, or whether to use a Q6600 I have in a second PC and overclock the ass out of it. Leaning towards the i5 at the moment due to the ability of those boards to do both crossfire and SLI.

[I ended up building a i5 750 system. Full specs - i5 750, Gigabyte P55-UD4P, 4 GB DDR3 1333 RAM, 2X 500 GB SATA HDDs (RAID0) OS drive, 1 x 750 GB IDE backup drive, Gigabyte ATI 4980 OC, G5 Mouse, G11 Keyboard. I would have liked a ATI 5850 but they are a bastard to find and a bit of a rip off price-wise at the moment. Also there is an issue with Triplehead support with the more recent Catalyst drivers. The RAID0 performed a bit less than I expected with a average read speed of 135 MB/sec (compared to 104 MB/sec for a single drive), but the system is still working extremely well.]