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Howard_Casto:
Found one on sale that has an interesting look:

https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16811197006?Item=N82E16811197006

Tempered glass is unusual at that price range.. the front kind of makes it look like a sub woofer though.

fallacy:
no front fans, no dust filter.

Howard_Casto:
In this price range you are either going to get front fans or back fans, not both. It's something I can pick up inexpensively on ebay and I'd probably splurge for rgb leds then. As for dust filters, I live in coal country so those filters don't do ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.... the particulate in the air and the coal dust are so fine they get into everything. I actually clean my pcs periodically.

Howard_Casto:
Eh screw it. I'll just spend ~$600 and get what I want. I've ordered my video card because that was about to go off sale. I'll go with a ryzen 5 even though it's overkill... maybe it'll give me a few more years worth of life on the thing. I can still use a little cheap-fu to knock some price off though. Amazon was doing the old "buy $50 gift card, get a $15 credit" promotion so I ordered a gift card and promptly added it to my own account to buy the motherboard, which is sold by amazon directly, so I'll wait a day for that $15 credit to come in and put it towards the purchase. Staples has exactly one computer case in my price range and they have the old $15 off of $60 coupon, so if I decide on that one I'll buy it there and that'll be some more off. The other components aren't a big deal so I'll just order them once I figure the rest out.

I would be willing to spend more on a case if I found something that really wowed me, but I'm just not feeling anything yet. Here is the one on staples.com btw (their pics sucked so I'm linking Newegg)

https://www.newegg.com/black-cooler-master-masterbox-lite-3-1-microatx-mini-tower/p/N82E16811119326?item=N82E16811119326&nm_mc=knc-googleadwords&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwords-_-cases%20(computer%20cases%20-%20atx%20form)-_-cooler%20master-_-11119326&source=region

Apparently it's all acrylic, which kind of sucks, but I do like the design. I'll have to think on it.

jpS14:
Hey Howard I use https://pcpartpicker.com/ to try to track down the best deals. Just use the filters to really get it down to what you want. Plus https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ will post some good deals if you can catch them.

What graphics card did you end up going with?

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