Case recommendations on a seriously tight budget

Thank you everyone for all the advice so far. I'll see if I can find a decent case in the WTB section, else I will be buying the AmazonBasics case; @YeAhx raised a great point about the preinstalled fans. Something else I realised while looking at the bigger cases with the PSU on top is that even though there is clearance for the GPU, with the PSU on top there probably won't be enough room for a tower cooler - that is something I'd like to add sometime soon, so the AmazonBasics case scores points there as well
You're welcome. If you are talking about air cooler when you say tower cooler than there will be space because even the biggest air coolers don't extend further than the motherboard area otherwise you won't be able to install them in normal cases as well. Basically speaking everything that's attached to the motherboard shifts down with that layout, I hope you get what I mean and I'm mistaking something with something else let me know.
 
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You're welcome. If you are talking about air cooler when you say tower cooler than there will be space because even the biggest air coolers don't extend further than the motherboard area otherwise you won't be able to install them in normal cases as well. Basically speaking everything that's attached to the motherboard shifts down with that layout, I hope you get what I mean and I'm mistaking something with something else let me know.
Yes I mean air coolers, the ones that blow out the back. I did not know that they would fit anyway, but with such close proximity between the PSU and the cooler I feel like heat soak would become an issue since the CPU is already sitting at 85C at moderate load, and a hot PSU blowing directly onto the cooler block is definitely not going to be helping things :sweatsmile:
 
Yes I mean air coolers, the ones that blow out the back. I did not know that they would fit anyway, but with such close proximity between the PSU and the cooler I feel like heat soak would become an issue since the CPU is already sitting at 85C at moderate load, and a hot PSU blowing directly onto the cooler block is definitely not going to be helping things :sweatsmile:
As far as I know PSU fan will be sucking in CPUs hot air and not the opposite way you are describing. Which shouldn't be an issue for a setup like yours (assuming you got a low-mid range CPU to paired with 4060) but it's definitely not an ideal setup.