best case for aircooling?

Junk · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:04

thanks.

I suppose the eclipse looks better with the side panel and some fan controls in the drive bay. Pinkfloyd's looks really nice!!

i have a wavemaster at the moment, which suffers from poor airflow, although i have just fitted the top fan exhaust and it has improved things dramatically, but cable management wise its a joke!

i think its a toll up between the Eclipse or a Lian Li or a Silverstone, but its soo difficult to choose!

what is the Akasa Mystique 62 like? i prefer its looks a little.

james.miller · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:06

thermaltake mozart tx. the psu and drives are kept seperate to the mainboard and components. oh and it has room for 10x 120mm fans. and a secondary mini-itx system

ImMrChris · 21 Jan 2007 at 17:36

WJA96 said:
Please remove your personal attack. It's un-necessary. If you have to resort to name-calling you've already lost the argument.

As for what they look like, the thread title is 'best case for aircooling'. That is the Eclipse I'm very glad to say. I've tested both properly and the Antec has very poor cooling in comparison to the Eclipse, especially for a case with that many fans in it.

sorry m8 i wasn't trying to offend

and i wasnt arguing as i have no experience of the eclipse just saying that the 900 has decent cooling imo

and yeah pinkfloyds looks kick ***

Buffalo2102 · 21 Jan 2007 at 18:15

Raikiri said:
If your motherboard uses the top most slot your graphics card won't fit in the 900,......

That's not true for me, nor for many other 900 owners. Besides, I have read that Antec have recalled and modified all the problem models so it's not an issue any more.

PinkFloyd · 21 Jan 2007 at 18:35

Junk said:
I suppose the eclipse looks better with the side panel and some fan controls in the drive bay. Pinkfloyd's looks really nice!!

ImMrChris said:
and yeah pinkfloyds looks kick ***

Thankyou!

Got a new fan controller now (bought off of WJA96 - works great)
and a new system in it, but otherwise its the same. Might do some more work on it, but not sure what at the moment, and whether I get the time and commitment to do it is another thing alltogether.

Will get some better pictures some time.

BFG_9000 · 21 Jan 2007 at 19:33

Again Akasa Eclipse 62.............. Nuff said

ImMrChris · 21 Jan 2007 at 21:59

some pics of my Antec 900 are posted in here if anyone wants to have a look

linky

BFG_9000 · 22 Jan 2007 at 19:42

p4radox said:
The Antec looks crap, has too much plasticcyness, and too many fans.

The Akasa is simply stunning in its simplicity, and is abslutely colossal inside.

OH Yes

Azza · 22 Jan 2007 at 19:43

Akasa Eclipse 62 all day long. If it was legal I would marry my Eclipse

WJA96 · 22 Jan 2007 at 21:23

Azza said:
If it was legal I would marry my Eclipse

You can get a civil partnership with it. Then it could come and visit you in hospital when you were critically ill and they only allow close family in. And when you die (I'm prepared to take bets it'll outlive you) it will inherit all your other worldly posessions. That'll be quite sad though as no-one with turn it on and it'll just sit in the house on it's own....