Arctic Cooling Silentium T1

Indy500 · 29 Mar 2006 at 23:29

What do people think of this case? I've seen it for less than £50 (including a 350W Seasonic PSU) and I'm tempted, but I want some opinions before I consider buying it.

Yewen · 29 Mar 2006 at 23:32

Ideal for builds for other people, little to flimsy to be swapping bits in and out more than once every year, you have to be careful not to break anything off it.

Good case at the money considering the PSU, would not consider it a case for high end rigs though, it is more for the budget sector.

Indy500 · 29 Mar 2006 at 23:33

Yewen said:
Ideal for builds for other people, little to flimsy to be swapping bits in and out more than once every year, you have to be careful not to break anything off it.

Thats exactly what I wanted it for.

Yewen said:
Good case at the money considering the PSU, would not consider it a case for high end rigs though, it is more for the budget sector.

Well the budget was about £400...

Yewen · 29 Mar 2006 at 23:37

Either that case or the Antec 1650 are the ones to go for then.

This case is ideal for low/medium spec builds for other people who will not be diving into there pc's a lot.

Probably the best case for the job then.

Dougsnake · 30 Mar 2006 at 14:31

Yewen said:
Ideal for builds for other people, little to flimsy to be swapping bits in and out more than once every year, you have to be careful not to break anything off it.

Good case at the money considering the PSU, would not consider it a case for high end rigs though, it is more for the budget sector.

Pretty much summed up rightly good for a simple rig as it only has one official place for a hardrive but a second can be squeezed in if only using using one of the cdrom/dvd slots not a pretty method but worked non the less on the system i built for a freind he loves the case and how quiet it is and psu copes well with a 7800gt and p4 630j @ 3600mhz

2p

WJA96 · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:19

The only thing to be wary of (and it's not specific to that case) is with full-size ATX motherboards with side-mounted IDE/floppy connectors. The space inside that case is quite tight, so the side-mounted connectors quite often are blocked by the case.

Micro-ATX boards work really well though.