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Teeqoz said:

JEMC said:

Very good, but completely different cases.

The Corsair case focuses on airflow and has limited room for storage while the Fractal one is designed for low noise and has plenty of room for HDDs and SSDs. And both are capable of housing radiators for watercooling on several points.

You won't go wrong with any of them, so choose on looks or price.

With Noctua fans, shouldn't both of them be low noise either way? Don't think I will use more than two drives (One SSD for OS and essential programs, HDD for other stuff), max three eventually.

But that means that the 450D should perform (somewhat) better in the cooling department then? Or will it not matter when I change the fan config?

Quiet cases have a foam on the side panels (and front door when there's one) that dampens the noise from the interior components. See this pic from the TechPowerUp review of the Fractal case.

Airflow will be better on the Corsair case because air coming from the front won't have many restrictions, while on the Fractal case you'll have the door (air will come from both sides of it) and the interior HDD cages. That said, you can remove the top HDD cage, and given that the door also has foam, you could run the front fans at a higher speed.

Don't worry too much because both cases are excellent. Just pick the one that looks better to you.