The Antec Nine Hundred is far from being a cheap case. Not even a month ago this case was selling for $140 normally. It's only been over the last 2 weeks or so that the price has been lowered. I think this was more of a push for Antec to make even more money on a great case.
I can respect your opinion on this as I personally do not like the looks of the NZXT Zero case.
The air flow on the Nine Hundred is amazing. With the 3 120mm fans and the 1 200mm fan it keeps all the components amazingly cool. Just because a case has 4, 5 or 8 fans does not mean it's a better cooling case. Design and air flow is way more important than filling a case up with fans.
While the Nine Hundred is not a full tower case it is on the larger end of the mid tower case range. It can fit a 8800gtx and still have some wiggle room. There is plenty of room for expandability in this case, while not as much as a full tower case it still more than suffices.
Now please do not think this is a sales pitch for the Nine Hundred. Nor am I trying to make you pick the Nine Hundred over any other case. All I am doing is clearing up some misconceptions that you seem to be having regarding the space and cooling of the Nine Hundred.
**** I like the CoolMaster Stacker but there is no way in **** I will spend more than $150 on a case. I have problems spending $100 on a case as 99% of the time I will be the only one looking at it. I can deal with a great cooling case that can be a plain black standard rectangle case and have power puff girls on it for all I care as long as my parts stay cool when I overclock.
(I chose the power puff girls as an example because my daughter is loves this show and I know a case that has them on it will make her flip out and I am not sure she would ever leave the home office/computer room)