Akasa Eclipse 62's Club... Desktop & Machines.
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Should get some decent photos very soon after my new bits arrive 
Looking forward to seeing your Akasa, cool to do a before and after shot... 
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Here's mine
Here's my server machine before I broke the upper cold cathode tube. I took it outside to clean all the dust out, and as I was lifting it off it's side I accidentally gripped where the tube was and snapped it in half.
Haven't got around to replacing it yet.
Here's my server machine before I broke the upper cold cathode tube. I took it outside to clean all the dust out, and as I was lifting it off it's side I accidentally gripped where the tube was and snapped it in half.
Haven't got around to replacing it yet.
Nice Rig .... 
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could anyone tell me what size of radiator you can get in the acasa eclipse?
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slinky malinky said:
If you are mouting on the panel a 120.2, but you would lose drive bays. You could fit a 120.1 on the fan mounts.
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Well i've just put it all together (took my time over 3 days moving from one to the other).
All I can say is... wow.
Best case i've ever worked on.
Cable tidying is a breeze, theres acres of space next to the drive bays to hide cables, theres a partition down the side with holes in that you poke cables through that you need and the rest is still tucked away nicely. The mobo power cables come through a hole in a partition at the top. Fantastic. The inside of my case never looked so barren!
Theres enough room inside to swing a cat, there must be 5" from the end of my GTS to the drive bays... even a GTX would have 3" or so clearance!
The build quality is fantastic, absolutely no sharp edges anywhere, the case itself and insides are all black alu (the outside is brushed, the inside is matt). The mobo tray is highly polished (to a mirror effect) silver alu.
Everything is thumbscrews, from the case pannels to the mobo tray to the PSU and PCI slots. Only the drives and mobo have to use normal screws, but even then the case comes with two huge bags of black anodised screws so it all matches the interior!
The only small problem I can see with the case is that the side pannel are thin alu, and like most alu cases they resonate, i've stuck a bit of bluetack between the back side pannel and the mobo tray and that fixed it right up.
I've used 2 x 120mm Akasa Amber fans and the case is very quiet, the only noise I can here is from the Freezer7pro, so I think thats going to get changed to a Scythe or similar in the near future.
Overall I can't reccomend this case enough!
I'll get some pics up of my setup later on
All I can say is... wow.
Best case i've ever worked on.
Cable tidying is a breeze, theres acres of space next to the drive bays to hide cables, theres a partition down the side with holes in that you poke cables through that you need and the rest is still tucked away nicely. The mobo power cables come through a hole in a partition at the top. Fantastic. The inside of my case never looked so barren!
Theres enough room inside to swing a cat, there must be 5" from the end of my GTS to the drive bays... even a GTX would have 3" or so clearance!
The build quality is fantastic, absolutely no sharp edges anywhere, the case itself and insides are all black alu (the outside is brushed, the inside is matt). The mobo tray is highly polished (to a mirror effect) silver alu.
Everything is thumbscrews, from the case pannels to the mobo tray to the PSU and PCI slots. Only the drives and mobo have to use normal screws, but even then the case comes with two huge bags of black anodised screws so it all matches the interior!
The only small problem I can see with the case is that the side pannel are thin alu, and like most alu cases they resonate, i've stuck a bit of bluetack between the back side pannel and the mobo tray and that fixed it right up.
I've used 2 x 120mm Akasa Amber fans and the case is very quiet, the only noise I can here is from the Freezer7pro, so I think thats going to get changed to a Scythe or similar in the near future.
Overall I can't reccomend this case enough!
I'll get some pics up of my setup later on
Guess what i got delivered this morning http://www.racecar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/1171398540.jpg
will post pics when built cant do at mo poxy valentines day and all that heh
cant figure out how you make picture appear on post and not via a link hmm.
btw nobody told me about resonating side panels before i purchased you sure it does this? if so hmm wouldnt have got this case
will post pics when built cant do at mo poxy valentines day and all that heh
cant figure out how you make picture appear on post and not via a link hmm.
btw nobody told me about resonating side panels before i purchased you sure it does this? if so hmm wouldnt have got this case
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My panels are fine. For your image to appear sinply click the picture icon when you post and submit the url in it. Or put the url inbetween these -
and it will show.
Tada! -
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Good idea, if you see my 1st post thats exactly what I did, improved airflow to case....