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

hope u dont take this the wrong way, im jsut trying to decide between one of these and a
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...i PC-V2110B Aluminium Super Ful Tower - Black

But what makes these cases so good?

I mean, its black inside which is nice, the mobo tray is shiny, not a good idea imo (reflects heat) , the layout is nothing special the hd/dvd driver holder is basic, not even rails, the psus top mounting only... now i realise the lan li one is a lot more, but the A71 isnt, which is a nice design im considering too(especially not when u have bought fans for the antec.

Believe me, its not a bad case, i just dont understand why its so highly regarded am i missing something? I want to like it a lot more than i do :) cuz of the black insides.
 
Falcor said:
hope u dont take this the wrong way, im jsut trying to decide between one of these and a
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showp...i PC-V2110B Aluminium Super Ful Tower - Black

But what makes these cases so good?

I mean, its black inside which is nice, the mobo tray is shiny, not a good idea imo (reflects heat) , the layout is nothing special the hd/dvd driver holder is basic, not even rails, the psus top mounting only... now i realise the lan li one is a lot more, but the A71 isnt, which is a nice design im considering too(especially not when u have bought fans for the akasa.

Believe me, its not a bad case, i just dont understand why its so highly regarded am i missing something? I want to like it a lot more than i do :) cuz of the black insides. So i think i must be missing something?
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well you take a Lian-Li fulltower, add about £100 for the Lian-li branding, and then sell it.
 
It's the huge wideness and depth I think is why it's well regarded.
I don't think it's worth more than £70 brand new though definitely not.
Cant believe some places still sell it for £90 + paid £78 for mine when I got it, it's price goes up and down which is odd.

my major problems with it having owned one for couple years now are

-Heat can build up at the top of the power supply
-Very limited access to the right hand side of the 5'25 bay at the top quite frankly it's a mission to get screws in there !
-Having to take both side panels and front off to access the front intake filter
-Major bad hard drive reverberation
-Reverberating side panels

It has it's fair share of problems but most cases do I guess I'd get one but wouldn't pay more than £70 for it.
 
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thanks c64 thats pretty honest, i can understand ppl liking the origional one, considering it was 4 years ago, but when u realise the new one is £120, + fans i think? that takes it near £150 so its fair to compair it to a lian li 71.

Dont ppl find the mobo tray reflects heat back into the mobo? i kinda thought it would.
 
well high polish surfaces reflect heat more than unpolished ones, so if the mobo is sitting on a polished mobo tray, the tray will reflect heat back at the mobo instead of absorbing and dissipating it.
 
I cant see the mobo trays polished finish being a heat issue. Heat tends to rise and is then carried away by the intake and cpu fan before being vented by the exhaust fan. Ive had my eclipse for a while now and heat has never been an issue.:)
 
setter said:
I cant see the mobo trays polished finish being a heat issue. Heat tends to rise and is then carried away by the intake and cpu fan before being vented by the exhaust fan. Ive had my eclipse for a while now and heat has never been an issue.:)
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Polished MB trays will make no diffrence at all to temps :confused: as you have correctly stated any heat will rise and will be vented through the case fans..
 
I think he is talking about heat radiation rather than convection. It is true that shiny surfaces may well reflect radiation better but I expect this to have effectively zero impact on how well the case is able to cool the components
 
pre1twa said:
I think he is talking about heat radiation rather than convection. It is true that shiny surfaces may well reflect radiation better but I expect this to have effectively zero impact on how well the case is able to cool the components
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Components needing cooling don't run hot enough that they could get rid of heat by radiating it but rely entirely on conductive cooling of heatsink and then convective cooling of air/forced airflow.
Incandescent bulb is heating device (90% of power goes to heat) which radiates heat.

If modes of heat transfer aren't familiar conduction is one which burns your hand when you put it onto cooking plate, in case of hand above burning candle convection of warmed air moves heat upwards and radiation is the one which warms your face while in front of fireplace.


easyrider said:
These Cases defo need to be paxmated.
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Akasa PaxMate is just cosmetics, it's not heavy and/or thick enough to do anything to most noises.
And what these cases need is sidepanel instead of plastic, they fail in EMC and have withdraw from sale recommendation here in Finland.
 
EsaT said:
Components needing cooling don't run hot enough that they could get rid of heat by radiating it but rely entirely on conductive cooling of heatsink and then convective cooling of air/forced airflow.
Incandescent bulb is heating device (90% of power goes to heat) which radiates heat.

If modes of heat transfer aren't familiar conduction is one which burns your hand when you put it onto cooking plate, in case of hand above burning candle convection of warmed air moves heat upwards and radiation is the one which warms your face while in front of fireplace.
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:confused: :D
 
EsaT said:
Components needing cooling don't run hot enough that they could get rid of heat by radiating it but rely entirely on conductive cooling of heatsink and then convective cooling of air/forced airflow.
Incandescent bulb is heating device (90% of power goes to heat) which radiates heat.

If modes of heat transfer aren't familiar conduction is one which burns your hand when you put it onto cooking plate, in case of hand above burning candle convection of warmed air moves heat upwards and radiation is the one which warms your face while in front of fireplace.


Akasa PaxMate is just cosmetics, it's not heavy and/or thick enough to do anything to most noises.
And what these cases need is sidepanel instead of plastic, they fail in EMC and have withdraw from sale recommendation here in Finland.
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All objects above absolute zero will radiate heat.
 
i saw a post somewhere of a guy who sprayed there mobo tray matt black and got a 2 degree temp drop, main reason i was asking, and the science does kinda back it...i guess the thing is if u can either have something that gets hotter or not...with no negative side effects apart form not looking as nice then...would u want a shiny tray :)

But its not a big deal , i just wondered out of interest...however scientifically a shiny silver mobo tray is not a good idea :)
 
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