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HERE’S HOW BUY THE PERFECT PC CASE
U.S. tariffs on Chinese products have mid-tower with two fans, sturdy-enough
resulted in price increases of about $10 to design, and all sorts of drive bays. It’ll fit any
$25 per case.) graphics card you throw at it except for
monsters like the Asus ROG Strix GTX 2080 Ti
BEST BUDGET PC CASES ($1,300 on Amazon [go.pcworld.com/st80]).
Silverstone Sugo SG13: Like all budget PC
cases, the Silverstone Sugo SG13 ($60 on BEST MID-RANGE PC CASES
Amazon [go.pcworld.com/13sg]) isn’t fancy. NZXT H500i: The NZXT H500i (go.pcworld.
But this tiny mini-ITX case is perfect for LAN com/500i; $100 on Amazon [go.pcworld.
parties (and cramped desks) thanks to its com/by5i]) looks gorgeous with its clean
affordable price and easy-to-carry design. all-steel construction and half-height tempered
Silverstone provides plenty of ventilation for glass panel. It helps you keep things clean
improved airflow—a crucial feature in such a inside, too, thanks to abundant hardware
tiny PC—and despite its small size, the Sugo space and cable management features. Other
SG13 can accommodate a full-sized power niceties include an integrated RGB lights, a
supply, a 140mm closed-loop CPU liquid- vertical GPU mount, and a Smart Device that
cooler, and graphics cards up to 10.5-inches taps into NZXT’s CAM software to control your
in length. We used it in our build of a mini- LEDs and optimize your fan speeds.
ITX Ryzen gaming PC (go.pcworld.com/ If you aren’t interested in the Smart Hub
mnrz) with a discrete GPU. or native lighting, NZXT also sells the
Deepcool Tesseract: The aforementioned dumbed-down but otherwise identical
Deepcool Tesseract ($50 on Newegg [go. H500 for $75 (go.pcworld.com/nz50). Both
pcworld.com/tsrc]) is a decent-sized are highly recommended
Corsair Carbide 270R: The no-frills
Corsair Carbide 270R ($70 on Amazon [go.
pcworld.com/r270]) succeeds in getting out
of your way. It’s dead-simple to work with,
includes cable management options you
won’t often find in budget cases, and the
performance you get for the price is solid.
Some notable extra touches include a power
supply shroud to hide unsightly cables, and
the ability to fit a 360mm liquid-cooling
Silverstone Sugo SG13. radiator in the front, a 240mm radiator up
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