If you are after the NZXT H2 for its sleekness as well as its sound-dampening qualities, I'd recommend the Fractal Design R3. It's not as good at sound dampening, but it is much better built than any NZXT case.
@Btcc22: Wrong on all counts. I did not use the least expensive LGA 2011 board, and nor does attempting to reach feature parity with an LGA 1155 build require you to use the most expensive boards available. For both X79 and Z68/Z77, the most expensive boards go for above $400. What I did was set a price point of no more than $250 and look for boards that offered the maximum bang for the buck. ASRock ended up being the best brand for both platforms, and the real deciding factor ended up being the number of full PCI-E lanes. X79 is bigger, I have dual 7970s, and Z68 would have bottlenecked them.
I also do, in fact, overclock my CPUs (and my GPUs, actually). I just haven't done it for this PC yet since I haven't seen much of a need to outside of improving physics processing for Metro 2033. At the time, the i7-2600K and i7-2700K were the same price, too.
So all and all, my comparison is completely fair.
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