The main reason for upgrading your
case
is to get more room or more bays for
drives. Like buying a new house because you have out grown your old one, need
more bedrooms for the children you didn't have when you bought the first house.
As with any upgrade you should consider the functionality of your purchase. Are
you going to use components from the old computer? Or is this going to be a
brand new system? What do you want to do with the system? Is it for your
business or is it going to be a multifunctional system to cover all your
computing tasks?
Make your self a "wish" list of features you want to have or add to the computer
when you are done:
Hard drives: Two, three, four?
CD/DVD drives: Two?
Internal Floppy drive?
Fans? Extra cooling
How big? Small to fit on your desktop, medium, or a full tower to go under your
desk?
Some cases come with a power supply, do you want to take the stock power supply or upgrade to a higher wattage to support more devices?
Accessibility? Some cases are a bear to open, some have hinged covers, if you
are going to add more drives in the future you need to have more bays that are
family easy to get to.
