As a "starter" case it looks...well it looks to be about 12.50 worth of case Personally, I think the placement of the PS really kills it if you intend to run any chip produced this century, but if you had an old p5-class, it'd probably be ok, assuming no one had to tinker around inside much. I (and I'm sure many others, perhaps even you) can agree that 'cheaper' cases tend to be made with alot of attention paid to making sure production is cheap...parts inside that shouldn't bend tend to bend much easier, edges tend to be sharper, hence my comment about poking around inside. We all (well, most anyway) admire your frugality, but even if you actually like the looks of the case, I think I couldn't overlook the other non-obvious facts of the case.