Akasa 62 Eclipse

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I'm considering buying this case, and was wondering about a couple of things that people may be able to help with.

I have a XP-120 heatsink which I can't fit to my mobo in my current case as there is too little clearance between the top of the mobo and the PSU. Anyone know whether the Eclipse 62 would provide sufficient clearance for me to mount this heatskink on my mobo?

Also, should I be alright fitting my current PSU to this case as well?

For the Eclipse, I am intending to buy a couple of 120mm Akasa Amber fans? Is this a good choice of fan for noise/cooling?

I've found it really hard picking a case I like, and am also still toying with the idea of getting an Antec P180 in black - as these are on special this week!

Cheers

Bornslippy
 
The heatsink should fit just fine, and if the PSU is ATX then it should fit in the new case just fine.

The ambers are a very good match for the case. 3am so a bit dopey but does the case not come with 2 ambers....
 
Unfortunately the case doesn't come with the fans, or at least mine didn't when I ordered it from here. The Ambers are nice, but benifit from being mounted on rubber washers/grommits.

As for your HS, will fit fine as long as you don't use the suspended drive cage supplied with the case.
 
Aha - thanks. So there should be enough clearance with this case? I'm pretty sure that this case doesn't come with any fans though, so I'll probably get a couple of ambers to go with it.
 
I have a XP-120 heatsink which I can't fit to my mobo in my current case as there is too little clearance between the top of the mobo and the PSU. Anyone know whether the Eclipse 62 would provide sufficient clearance for me to mount this heatskink on my mobo?
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Hi there, good choice of case btw. The PSU is quite close to the top of the mobo in the Eclipse, my mate fit a fairly big cooler in no problem, ill try and get you a pic.

Mark
 
Its about 20mm from top of the mobo to the bottom of the PSU.

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This is the best pic i can find on my HDD at the moment, if it doesnt help i can take a pic from the side.

HTH

Mark
 
Thanks for that. The socket on the IS7-E seems to be quite high up towards the top and, from what I remember, the xp-120 reaches right to the top edge of the motherboard (as it is wide rather than high). I'm pretty sure there is no overhang though (although there might a few mill).

I think I will have to take some measurements to be sure. Overclockers were out of these cases last time I checked though, so no big rush. I do fancy this case over the P180, even though people don't seem to like the plastic front!
 
Look at it this way.

Eclipses issues are a plastic front.

P180 has had a lot more wrong with it, like doors warping, panels breaking and some not isolated incodents.
 
Noni said:
But the P180 has great customer support, so those problems can be sorted :)
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100% true :p

But I would rather not have to sort them out, but if you do get the issues they are sorted within 2 weeks (2 weeks is the worst 'horror story' I have heard from Antec :eek: )
 
Lol yeah,

Basically mate, the eclipse and P180 are both good cases , perhaps the P180 has better cooling performance, but I would just go for which one you think looks better.
 
Review see you.

Well ok, with taking the HD cage out the P180 is better, cmon-

The eclipse has the standard 2x 120mm fans, the P180 has good cooling for all the HD's and all the components, also the seperate comparments bring heat away.

Your telling me that all that design has gone to waste??? To a simple 2 fan config?
 
The Eclipse is a all out brute force cooling case, the coolest case I have used on air.

The p180 comes nowhere near with a similar system in it. Waiting to hear from somone who has done a direct transfer as it is the only way of telling which is the cooler case.

The eclipse is built for cooling, the p180 is built for lowering noise, thus making it less able to dissipate heat. Not a big point at all but it would come into play with some peoples rigs.

SLI in the eclipse would be a dream. It is also built really well :)

The p180's design focus' on cooling with the minium noise, the Eclipse is just focused on cooling.

I will put money on that my in progress wavemaster with its 2x 80mm fans would kill a eclipse for cooling, or a fully kitted out stacker; but I will see once I have made it, I am somewhat taking the idea of the zalman case to a wavemaster :p
 
Nope, not saying that, as with enough delta's a cabbage could hold a pc.

What I would say to thoose two is, you would not hear anything afterwards :p

P180 with deltas... is that not going against what it is meant to be....

Until I see a Eclipse v P180 with same rig in each, I will not budge on saying the Eclipse is the better cooler, as real world with comparable systems, it was cooler.

Not the same rig, so I can not say for sure, but close enough and a difference enough that at a low noise point the eclipse was ahead.
 
If he's not, I am.

It's a wind-tunnel in there. I acquired Rollins' Eclipse 62 after he went HTPC and it came with two YS Tech 120mm's and PWM controller (I think he made it himself and it's a thing of beauty - you can actually spin the fans down to something like 5rpm and then stop them) and coupled with the Akasa engineered side panel I can run a fanless Scythe on an overclocked 3.2GHz P4 and it runs at less than 60C under load.

Now I admit it's a pointless exercise as those three fans sound like a tornado, so a passive cooler is a waste, but it does demonstrate just how good the cooling is on the Eclipse.
 
Lol, a bit of debate this has caused. Anyway, my original issue was whether I would have sufficient clearance between the PSU and my mobo fitted with an xp-120 heatsink. I think it should be ok though from what people say here.

I am definitely going to buy this case asap. I'm tempted to get a couple of akasa amber 120mm fans to go with it, unless anyone has any better cooling suggestions for 120mm fans for around a tenner?
 
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