ok, just to do a little "heads up" here
for about 20 bux, you can do this
grab a nice piece of wood, straight and level. A little bigger than your mobo. Then take 2-4 sheets of aluminum foil (that would cost about 3 cents) and glue the edges tightly around the wood. That's for heat transfer. Then grap some small 1/2" wood blocks, or legos, or whatever you want, and put glue them to the wood board over the aluminum foil. (so the foil doesn't touch the mobo pin things and fry it) then screw/glue/tape/burn whatever, your mobo to the "case". Then start putting the crap on your mobo. the HD should go on the side, parallel to the mobo (remember, the wood is a little bigger than the mobo) and the PSU right above it. then find a nice place for the CD-ROM/Burner whatever. Make the edges and cut holes for the connectors. Buy a some plexy glass stuff, and screw it for the other side. You'll have a HUGE "side panel window" as bis as the whole case. But before you do that, get like 5-10 fans and design a good airflow for the case. make sure you know the direction of the air flow; don't just randomly put fans all over. OK, then cut a hole in the plexyglass thing, to make like a "side air duct" and stick a fan or 2 right over the heatsink fan. Buy some LED's or neon's or whatever and decorate. You can paint/draw on the case. There you go, you saved 100 dollars, and you got a nice looking, unique case, that runs that 3500+ at room temp. even with a overclock. If you can't decide what to do with the money you save, send them over...
ps. feel free to experiment and add all u want, this is just a suggestion
for about 20 bux, you can do this
grab a nice piece of wood, straight and level. A little bigger than your mobo. Then take 2-4 sheets of aluminum foil (that would cost about 3 cents) and glue the edges tightly around the wood. That's for heat transfer. Then grap some small 1/2" wood blocks, or legos, or whatever you want, and put glue them to the wood board over the aluminum foil. (so the foil doesn't touch the mobo pin things and fry it) then screw/glue/tape/burn whatever, your mobo to the "case". Then start putting the crap on your mobo. the HD should go on the side, parallel to the mobo (remember, the wood is a little bigger than the mobo) and the PSU right above it. then find a nice place for the CD-ROM/Burner whatever. Make the edges and cut holes for the connectors. Buy a some plexy glass stuff, and screw it for the other side. You'll have a HUGE "side panel window" as bis as the whole case. But before you do that, get like 5-10 fans and design a good airflow for the case. make sure you know the direction of the air flow; don't just randomly put fans all over. OK, then cut a hole in the plexyglass thing, to make like a "side air duct" and stick a fan or 2 right over the heatsink fan. Buy some LED's or neon's or whatever and decorate. You can paint/draw on the case. There you go, you saved 100 dollars, and you got a nice looking, unique case, that runs that 3500+ at room temp. even with a overclock. If you can't decide what to do with the money you save, send them over...
ps. feel free to experiment and add all u want, this is just a suggestion