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Alpine EZ-Cool Case Thoughts..

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known about this for a while, a friend has it, seems the best bang for buck case, not the best constructed case, but looks like it provides good cooling, front 80mm fan, rear 120MM fan, mount for top 80mm fan, and side panel allows for 3* 80MM fans, or 1* 80 MM fan for expansion cards and 1*120 MM fan for memory cooing, great for bringing cool air into case for CPU, has pretty much all I need...looks nice, although kinda cheap, certainly no Lian Li...but has lots of ventialtion holes, seems like a cheaper option over the Stacker 830...

The Stacker would cost me around £200 with extra fans, this shold cost me £45 case, plus £30 for fans, so £75 all together is pretty good..Quite hard to find Info on this case, there are three models which are pretty much identical, EZ-Cool 7103H, 7104H, 7105H...Available in Black or Silver or Blue

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Nix said:
Lots of fans don't always make for a cool case.

You could probably get better cooling with that if the side was actually solid because it would improve air-flow.
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ok, so for £30 it's better going for a Lian Li, I like the PC-60 PLus 2, but can someoen recommend a heatsink to work with it, it sucks air in form the back and to the heatsink so I take it a Zalman 9500AT would not work as the fan blows in the opposite direction..that's hteo nly thing stopped me from gettign a lian li, thoe whoel cpu cooling thing ,can i ot make the rear fan exhaust air instead then put in a zlaman 9500at, but then where woudl it get cool air from?...
 
Well S80 out of the question, to expensive, PC-7 looks to cheap, I'd go for the V1000 Plus 2 but is the cooling good? for hard drives and expanasion cards i should not have a problem, but what about the CPU?, what CPU cooler woudl oyu recomend for a Pentium D 830, I was just thinking of sticking a Zalman 9500AT in there, and reversing the rear fan to blow air out, would that work?...
 
Nix said:
What are you talking about?

the higher model cases do it the opposite way.
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Exaclty what i'm talking about the air is sucked in from the back but i fail to see how it would get exhuasted, take for example a pentium d 830 with stock intel fan, air comes from in form rear cpu cooler blows this air around the case and the air in the case is all hot, how will it get exhausted?...there is a 120MM fan at the top side on the plus 2 will that exhaust both hot air from expansion cards and cpu?, can that handle the heat output from a 130Watt cpu that's the only thing i'm sceptical about.., I will be running a radeon X1800XT in there to....
 
Yewen said:
I ran a dothan passive on the v1000 (not plus) using a purpose built passive heatsink.

Ran my 3700sd and 4400 x2 of a Zalman Reserator 1+ as it is the easiest way to achieve silence. :)
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what's with you and your low powered cpu's? take a gamble and chuck in a Dual core pentium, things will soon start to heat up... :D
 
Still don't know what case to get, both have there good and bad points...if i would get a Lian Li it would be the V1000 Plus 2..., revers the rear fna to blow out, cut a blow whole in it to supply fresh air to the Zalman 9500AT Cooler..that should work a treat..., , but hey why do that when you can buy a stacker with it done already...if your going to spend £100+ on a case then for cooling wise the only case to go for is a stacker, under £100 range then would prolly be a coolermaster ammo, if only it was aluminium...
 
Raikiri said:
Why would you want things to heat yp when the AMDs use less power, create less heat, can be cooled silently and are faster? Only reason I have a pentium D was that it only cost me £80, considering the recent price drops of AMD X2s they arent that good value now either. Plus conroe is out...
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I use s Pentium cause of the RAW power then can output, tried an Athlon XP 2800 felt sluggish comapred to a Pentium 2.8GHZ P4 Northwood, with a Penitum it raw power for me, especially encoding vidoe, the pentium flies, right now the Pentium D 830 kills a 3.4GHZ Northwood, but jsut runs so HOT!!, if I can sort that out i'd be happy...
 
Nix said:
Why do you want that stacker? It's a terrible case! Save your money and get the PC-7+.

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If you have to spend a lot of money to satisfy your needs, then get the Akasa Eclipse 62, at least then you'll be sure of a fantastic case.
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You have one?, sned me it and I will judge for myself, I liek the stacker cause it is rock solid, and the door is great, compared to a P180 and the S80 I hate full size doors, and weak ones , i had a case like that, there flimsy, but the stacker is jsut solid and the mesh looks great, i love the power button o nthe top, no more reaching down to switch the PC on...
 
Raikiri said:
And an athlon x2 would be faster still, you're comparing the athlon xps which were slower than their pentium 4 counterparts. Athlon 64s are not.

Also just how hot is it running? (at stock?)
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60 Degrees...,74 Degrees Full Load with Silverstone NT06 Cooler in Sugo

55 Degrees idle, 62 Degrees full load with Stock Intel cooler running at 4000 RPM.. :mad:

with a 3.4GHZ northwood never went over 55 full load..., same for Ahtlon X2 3800...., now you know how HOT these Dual Core Pentiums Run..
 
Yewen said:
Are you saying the S80 has a flimsey door?

The door that is 2mm aluminium, foam, then another 1mm aluminium sheet screwed down ontop?
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I satrted laughing when I saw the foam, looked like a home made project, that door reminds me of the Antec P180 one, I hate them doors..I'd rather have a case with no doors, I want all my stuf showing, nothing beats the design of the the Apple G5 case, so i'd go for the Lian Li V1000 if i was sure it would cool my setup down effectively...but if the PC-7+ can do a good as job as the V1000 for less cash i guess that is the case to go for...
 
Yewen said:
All PC7 cases from the rev.1 have a 80mm blowhole. :)

Not just the new one.
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How od i know i will get that one?..

"Fan: 12 cm ball bearing x 1, 8 cm sleeve fan x 1"

That is listed on the lian li site to, for the PLus II, 12CM * 2, no mention of any top fan...
 
so cooler wise Scythe Ninja Plus?, Shogun? or Zalman 9500AT or Arctic Freezer 7 pro? or SI-120? bare in mind the Scythe weighs it and 800Grams voiding your warranty?, does it not bend your motherboard?...
 
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