Any cases like this?

[dekez]

Ok I have the idea of the perfect case in my head, but am having trouble finding it in real life and could do with your ideas or suggestions please!

The case is to house an i7 server which will be on 24/7 and running folding@home, it will also be water cooled (ideally triple rad) as it needs to be quiet. Has anyone got any suggestions of cases getting near this description:

Looks: Black minimalistic, no windows or fancy lights. (like the R2) - This is important, it is going to be in the living room and needs to look like a black box rather than a PC.

Fans: Fan intakes in the bottom, with dust filters that are easy to clean, vents out the top (like 800D). Potential for housing ideally a 360 rad in either the base or roof, minimum a 240.

Size: Not massive! This is where I'm struggling, larger cases have all the features I want but I'd really like to keep it as small as possible, I'll be going for a m-ATX motherboard to give more space for the water cooling, a m-ATX case would be ideal but I doubt there are any that would take a triple rad even with modding.

Bonus - hot swap HDD bays would be nice.

Basically I'm after a mini version of the 800D that looks like the R2 and can take a triple rad. Failing this I may try to mod an R2, I'm sure there is enough space in there somewhere

Any suggestions?

Cheers

 

[sunjoo2012]

I Would say mod the r2

 

[Josh P]

I believe if you remove all HDD racks and the 5.25" bays you can squeeze a 360 in the front of an R2. I'm pretty confident you could get a 240/280 in just removing the drive racks.

You could always not watercool, and replace the case fans - say 1 Apache in the front, one on a Megahalems, one in the back. Then daisy-chain them all together. My i7 stays below 60C like this, and the noisiest components are a VaporX 5770 / F3 drive / Corsair PSU; not that loud.

 

[dekez]

Thanks that sounds like the best option then, I have 3 HDD that need to go in there as well so will probably get the case and experiment, I don't need an optical drive so I could either use the top 2 bays for a hot swap caddie or move some of the HDD trays forward and have the 360.

I've also come up with another option, I've measured the current case it's in which is a crappy CIT job, a 360 would just fit in the floor, but it would mean a lot of modding to get the case looking good, might be a fun project though.