Case Recommendation for Build

[bwalker36]

So my plan is to build out a new computer sometime after the launch of the 5 series cards.  My leaning right now is I will go for a 5090 and just be done for a few years for my needs.  With that in mind, I'm looking for a new case for this build and I'm thinking I may want to go full tower instead of mid tower.  My current Meshify 2 doesn't feel like it would have much room if any for any kind of add on card with a 5090 shoved into it haha. 

 

I don't necessarily need a full tower but here are my needs in priority order:

 

1. Fit a 5090 (Understand we can't guarantee until we know its size)
2. Quality (I know this is subjective, but I have not followed the case game in a long time)
3. Primarily Air Cooled, Will most likely reuse my Arctic Frozer 360 but will definitely have an AIO for the CPU. 
4. Fit at least a sound card (this might be more Mobo driven, but my current board would struggle to fita sound card even with a 3080.
   1. I know the modern motherboards sound is okay, I just find how they handle switching between headphones and speakers to be annoying.  Or I'm doing something wrong but my sound cards usually let me really have separate settings. 
5. Possibility of Watercooling one day.

 

I'm not super worried about price but I'm not an extreme overclocker heck I barely overclock anymore.  So while I appreciate quality, I probably also don't need anything special like a case labs.

 

Edit:  Hmm Fractal makes a XL version of the meshify.....  The pop air xl looks pretty nice too. 

Edited October 24 by bwalker36

[Fluxmaven]

3 hours ago, bwalker36 said:

this might be more Mobo driven

You need to find a motherboard that has the PCIe slot spacing laid out so that you can fit your sound card and GPU. Any case that is big enough for the GPU will also have space for the sound card. A lot of new motherboards are focusing on cramming as many M.2 SSDs in as possible and don't have a ton of PCIe slots. Sometimes the few they do have are too close together if you have a triple slot GPU.

 

As for what case to get... It's really a personal preference thing. Fractal makes pretty decent stuff so stepping into the XL version of one of their cases isn't a bad idea. In general the trend has been towards smaller cases and really flashy cases with lots of tempered glass and RGB. Full towers aren't as common these days. 

 

Corsair 7000D airflow is a decent full tower option. They also have the 9000D if you wanted a really big case to grow into lol.

Lian Li V3000 Plus is a nice full tower case that unfortunately got delayed so many times that I think most people forgot about it by the time it was available.

Cooler Master has newer versions of the Cosmos and HAF.

Raijintek just came out with the Paean Ultra.

SilverStone Alta F2 if you want to blow money on a unique case that probably nobody has.