Akasa Eclipse 62's Club... Desktop & Machines.

anyone recommend something to put my 3.5 drive in the 5.25 area please ?

the Akasa dampening ones any good ?

I bought the Nexus ones - and they were useless - it was a tight fit inside the 5.25 area of the case - and it ripped one of the rubber mounts off - next time I took it out to replace one of the HDDs - 3 in total of the rubber mounts ripped off - and I could not reattach them - put the whole lot in the bin in the end ?

user error ?
 
Akasa ones are not bad, I have them in my eclipse, but it was a bit difficult to put in the 5.25 bays. The eclipse has a sort of small ledge on each bay - ideal for slotting something in from the front, not so great for putting something in from the back.

Since I had a fan mounted at the front, I didnt want to remove all that to put in the hard drives. In the end I settled for putting in one of the drives.

Its a raptor as well so is quite noisy, the dampeners do a decent job although sometimes I wonder whether the only thing that changed was the frequency of the rattling sounds rather than their loudness.

TBH I would love to be able to buy a caddy that would fit nicely in place of the 3.5 caddy but have the hard drives facing the sides, like how the coolermaster cases are. And have them contain all this dampening stuff as there is plenty of room in the case for a 5.25 sized caddy.
 
thanks probably why the Nexus ones struggled too then

reason for me doing it is not noise - but as I have 4 HDDs in the case - it really blocks bottom air flow

when I had moved 2 up to the 5.25 (before I broke the Nexus) - the temps of the Southbridge on my mobo and the GFX card reduced to a fair extent
 
Buckster said:
anyone recommend something to put my 3.5 drive in the 5.25 area please ?

the Akasa dampening ones any good ?

I bought the Nexus ones - and they were useless - it was a tight fit inside the 5.25 area of the case - and it ripped one of the rubber mounts off - next time I took it out to replace one of the HDDs - 3 in total of the rubber mounts ripped off - and I could not reattach them - put the whole lot in the bin in the end ?

user error ?
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sewing machine elastic bungee mod you'll be amazed at the sound difference

forget dampening stuff they don't work especially in the vibration happy eclipse
 
Well I've been running my 'new' rig for a few months now. I moved my Akasa Omega case from under the desk to next to the desk. Means I get a bit more leg room and I reduce the risk of my kicking the swivelly door thing and making the PC restart. :D:o

That gave me the opportunity to have a look inside the case and see how things are, dust wise, and I was amazed! Barely any dust in there. Course the fan filters on the two intake fans were absolutely caked in dust. Round the edges you could see through the filters but in the middle it was just dust piled up. :p So I brushed the dust off and probably gave myself asthma but now the PC should be a little better on the cooling front. :)

So after I did that I took some pics for you. Wanted to check I could fit in another 4Gb pack of RAM if I ever feel the need to do so. :p And I can no probs. I also wanted to see if I could squeeze another SATA cable into the port that is pretty much blocked by my graphics card. If I get a right-angled one I might have a chance but I've just looked at my mobo manual PDF file (for info on RAM timings) and I've found two more SATA ports I wasn't aware of. :p I'm using three and the blocked one is the 4th one that faces away from the mobo. The two hidden ones seem to face the front of the case if that makes sense. So when I feel like it I'll open the case up again and confirm that. I wanted to check that so I can think about getting a Bluray optical drive sometime and bung that it. :)

Anyway les pics.

Case sideways on
Case front end on
Case sideways on but panel removed
Gratuitous shot of the twin-fan-cooled Noctua UH-12P heatsink. :cool: The fan on the right blows air onto the cooler. Fan on left sucks air off and pushes it towards the rear exhaust fan.
Memory slots look OK and free, ripe for another 4Gb pack.
SATA slot - To the right of the furthest right RAM slot, under the SATA 3 text and behind the graphics card is what I thought was my last free SATA port. I should be OK with a right-angled SATA cable in there but the red mass to the right are SATA ports 4 and 5. The red cables coming from ports 1-3 for my two hard drives and my optical drive. So I reckon I can plug in a Bluray optical drive into port 4 say.

So the case is Akasa Omega. Motherboard is Asus P5Q-E. CPU is Q9650. Heatsink is Noctua NH-U12P with two of the Noctua heatsink fans. Sound card is Asus Xonar D2. Graphics is a standard 4870 1Gb. Got Western Digital 640Gb and Samsung 1Tb hard drives along with a Pioneer DVD-RW. RAM is OCZ Reaper HPC 4Gb PC2-6400C4 800MHz stuff. When I have some spare cash I'd like to double that to 8Gb so my Vista x64 can go mental with the superfetching stuff. I would like to get a third-party graphics card cooler but I think that is both beyond my monetary range as well as my technical skills right now.

So any comments or suggestions on my case? :)
 
Nice case the omega, id say you should be fine with the front facing sata ports, im using a p5q deluxe which has the same sata port layout (only let down on theese boards) with a gtx 280 which blocks some of them. Also with the ram, itll depend on which heatsink variant of the ocz reaper hpc you get, as there are now 3 designs including your own marc.
 
setter said:
Nice case the omega, id say you should be fine with the front facing sata ports, im using a p5q deluxe which has the same sata port layout (only let down on theese boards) with a gtx 280 which blocks some of them.
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Cheers setter. I can't believe I never spotted those two hidden away there. :p

setter said:
Also with the ram, itll depend on which heatsink variant of the ocz reaper hpc you get, as there are now 3 designs including your own marc.
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Well I got the RAM from OcUK and I've still got the email with the product code so I'll try and make sure I get the exact same 4Gb pack next time to get the same heatsink design. Can't do much beyond that can I?

Overall I'd say the original Eclipse is the better case. And the top/side panels from the Omega with the fan hole would fit the Eclipse so I could make a cool hybrid case. :)
 
MarcLister said:
Well I've been running my 'new' rig for a few months now. I moved my Akasa Omega case from under the desk to next to the desk. Means I get a bit more leg room and I reduce the risk of my kicking the swivelly door thing and making the PC restart. :D:o

That gave me the opportunity to have a look inside the case and see how things are, dust wise, and I was amazed! Barely any dust in there. Course the fan filters on the two intake fans were absolutely caked in dust. Round the edges you could see through the filters but in the middle it was just dust piled up. :p So I brushed the dust off and probably gave myself asthma but now the PC should be a little better on the cooling front. :)

So after I did that I took some pics for you. Wanted to check I could fit in another 4Gb pack of RAM if I ever feel the need to do so. :p And I can no probs. I also wanted to see if I could squeeze another SATA cable into the port that is pretty much blocked by my graphics card. If I get a right-angled one I might have a chance but I've just looked at my mobo manual PDF file (for info on RAM timings) and I've found two more SATA ports I wasn't aware of. :p I'm using three and the blocked one is the 4th one that faces away from the mobo. The two hidden ones seem to face the front of the case if that makes sense. So when I feel like it I'll open the case up again and confirm that. I wanted to check that so I can think about getting a Bluray optical drive sometime and bung that it. :)

Anyway les pics.

Case sideways on
Case front end on
Case sideways on but panel removed
Gratuitous shot of the twin-fan-cooled Noctua UH-12P heatsink. :cool: The fan on the right blows air onto the cooler. Fan on left sucks air off and pushes it towards the rear exhaust fan.
Memory slots look OK and free, ripe for another 4Gb pack.
SATA slot - To the right of the furthest right RAM slot, under the SATA 3 text and behind the graphics card is what I thought was my last free SATA port. I should be OK with a right-angled SATA cable in there but the red mass to the right are SATA ports 4 and 5. The red cables coming from ports 1-3 for my two hard drives and my optical drive. So I reckon I can plug in a Bluray optical drive into port 4 say.

So the case is Akasa Omega. Motherboard is Asus P5Q-E. CPU is Q9650. Heatsink is Noctua NH-U12P with two of the Noctua heatsink fans. Sound card is Asus Xonar D2. Graphics is a standard 4870 1Gb. Got Western Digital 640Gb and Samsung 1Tb hard drives along with a Pioneer DVD-RW. RAM is OCZ Reaper HPC 4Gb PC2-6400C4 800MHz stuff. When I have some spare cash I'd like to double that to 8Gb so my Vista x64 can go mental with the superfetching stuff. I would like to get a third-party graphics card cooler but I think that is both beyond my monetary range as well as my technical skills right now.

So any comments or suggestions on my case? :)
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Nice work M8y.....:cool:
 
C64 said:
sewing machine elastic bungee mod you'll be amazed at the sound difference

forget dampening stuff they don't work especially in the vibration happy eclipse
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Have to agree with the sewing elastic, can fit 2 disks comfortably along side a dvd drive. If you use some screws on the harddisk too you can wrap the elastic around these to keep them secure when you need to transport your pc.

Swapped out my a64 kit for some i7 goodness, will post some pics up soon. Looking at building a new hdd rack so I can bungee mod another 3-4 disks.
 
Steeps said:
Have to agree with the sewing elastic, can fit 2 disks comfortably along side a dvd drive. If you use some screws on the harddisk too you can wrap the elastic around these to keep them secure when you need to transport your pc.

Swapped out my a64 kit for some i7 goodness, will post some pics up soon. Looking at building a new hdd rack so I can bungee mod another 3-4 disks.
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Look forward to seeing your mod M8... :)
 
Well this clumsy eclipse 62 owner has gone & busted one of the front USB inputs, left a lead in it & went & trod on the lead in the dark :mad::(:rolleyes:

Are replacement motherboard header to usb socket easy to get hold of, what's akasa's after sales service like?
 
Grimley said:
Well this clumsy eclipse 62 owner has gone & busted one of the front USB inputs, left a lead in it & went & trod on the lead in the dark :mad::(:rolleyes:

Are replacement motherboard header to usb socket easy to get hold of, what's akasa's after sales service like?
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Akasa's service is pretty good, or alternatively you could take a standard pci backplate with usb headers and put it in the case front pci slot, i had a 4 port usb bracket in mine for a while, attached direct to my mobo.
 
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Do the PSU case screw fixings line up with the case? never known any size PSU not fit an Akasa Eclipse..... The V2 Eclipse's have now extended there PSU bay to enable to fit larger power supplys, haven't seen any modifications to the case to fit the oppisite...
 
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