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Recommendations for decent cooling PC case?

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vyle
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I have a Dell desktop which I bought reduced and stuck a lovely graphics card into it (ATI 5850) and it's been running well for my gaming, but seemed to underperform for some games, such as Witcher 2 and Skyrim (with the mods ramped up), and skyrim kept crashing.

When I looked at the temperature readings on my card, I realised that it idles at about 50degrees, when others report it idling at 40ish.

Anyway, long story short, it turns out that I completely forgot to consider the airflow in my case, and my graphics card is creating a hot-pocket if you like, at the bottom. Oops.

So I'm going to lift everything out and dump it into a tower that doesn't suck where air-flow is concerned.

I don't really want to go the liquid cooling route, because I have a friend whose cooling tubes leaked and broke everything, and I can't get my head around "liquid" inside computers, however awesome it's reported to be.

I've looked at a number of cases, but it's not a market area I know much about, and would like some pointers if possible.

Criteria:

Front-mounted headphone out.
4 USBs on front if possible (pref USB3)
SD card reader
Plenty of ventilation
1x optical drive slot.
Possibly sound muffling but not too fussed.

My budget isn't set in stone (within reason...probably £200 max but might be able to go further), because I just want something that will keep my computer ice-cool, and with any luck this case will stay with me as I upgrade in the future.

Thanks :D
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