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I've RMA'd my refurb Antec P660B case back to newegg. Unfortunately, newegg has taken down all the PP660 series except the new PP660AMG, which is out of my price range, and even the cheaper 660 and 660B are a bit of my budget right now, as well. I was thinking about buying a cheap ($20-30) Chieftec Antec clone and buy a Antec TruPower PSU seperately, but unfortunately Newegg has taken down all midtower Chieftecs as well. So right now I'm looking at getting the ANTEC SLK2600AMB, partly because it looks really cool, and partly because its cheap ($67). A second choice would be one of those ~$58 Enermax cases, some of which also look kinda cool, and once again, they're cheap. So any opinions on either case would be greatly appreciated. Considering we're talking about Antec and Enermax here, I'm fairly confident that either case would suit me, so my main holdback would be the 300w PSU they come with. Would it be enough to power an OC'd P4 1.8 (1.65-1.7 max vcore) rig? Its gonna be pretty light on drives (one HD, one CD-RW, no DVD or floppy) and also light on cards (I plan on using onboard sound for now, and only have a R7500LE which I'll upgrade early next year). My second question about the PSUs is how much noise do they make? One of the things I liked about the True Power PSUs is that they're practically silent, and that's a big item on my list of PSU features. If 300w isn't enough, does anybody know of a good (reputable) place where I can find the cheap Chieftec mid-towers? They seem to have dropped from the face of the earth, I checked TCWO, MWave, Buy.com, etc.