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The first case I used years ago was cheap, and didn't even have a trademark or a badge to tell you the brand.
I thought that it should've been call "Samurai" or something similar because it was nearly impossible to go inside it without getting a cut or two!
The first decent case that I bought almost four years ago was the Thermaltake Xaser Damier V in black with a window and the digital temp & fan control. There are 5 fans total for the case not including the CPU fan & heatsink. The fans positions are 1 rear, 1 top, 1 front, and two in the side.
Although it doesn't have a slide-out mobo tray it certaintly has excellent cooling & plenty of space with 2 external bays for floppy drives, 4 internal bays for HDD's , and 5 external 5 1/4" bays but one is used for the temp & fan control.
In the back it has 7 expansion slots. It will handle an EVGA GeForce GT 260 without space issues. I don't know about the newer cards.
Anyway......I liked the first Xaser Damier V so much that when Thermaltake was selling the last of these cases I bought one NIB for $50.00 shipped! The steel version is about 38 lbs empty(estimate), and the aluminum version is about 24 lbs. or so.
These Xaser V's are built like a tank!
HTH,
CI
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