Sub $100, small, adequate airflow (although dust might be a problem), and an aggressive but not ridiculous look sealed the deal for me. I also like the fact that it doesn't have a bunch of 5.25" drive bays that are clearly never going to be filled. I think my current rig is going to dwarf this one.Since the case only fits Micro ATX boards I ended up following through with my Micro ATX research, and nabbing the Asus Rampage III Gene motherboard, which got some fairly glowing reviews for a mATX board.
Power supplies are far less interesting, but I grabbed a Corsair 750HX modular power supply because of its extremely high efficiency ratings. With the system going to house a single GPU card with not many extra bells and whistles like a huge raid of hard disk drives, 750 watts is going to be more than enough to keep everything going smoothly.
Still to be chosen: RAM, a GPU, a CPU cooler, SSD/HDDs, and other incidentals like case fans and/or optical drives. (blu-ray drives will not be making an appearance- that's what I have my PS3 for.)
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