Bought myself an Nvidia Edition Coolermaster Stacker 830

J86

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Yeah yeah!

got all my hardware in, up and running etc looks pretty sweet.

Just curious as to what this little bag of LEDs are for? with a molex connector on the end :/

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Whats it like to Install, Pics please.

I'm thinking of dumping my Akasa Eclipse for one of them, or maybe the Lian Li PC-A16A. As the cooling in the Eclipse is , in my opinion, POOR!

And i do like the black and green of the Nvidia case.
 
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found out what their for.. theres a special mount on the side for a raptor X and the 4 led's sit around the raptor lighting it up so you can see it through the side.. but the led's are blue lol

ill get pics up for you tomorrow
 
C64 said:
thats funny as the eclipse is probably one of the best for air cooling
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It has one fan on the front which doesn't pull much air in because of the design of the front of the case and an exhaust fan, and if you have an 8800gtx as i do then it basicly makes the case into two saperate compartments. and no cold air is being supplied to the CPU cooler from the front fan.
Since i bought this case my CPU temp has risen by 10 degrees over my antec 900 and my GFX has gone up abut 10 degrees aswell.
Which is why i like the idea of the Coolermaster Stacker 830 Evolution with all its fans. I may even go back to the 900.
 
The front does pull enough air in but for the Eclipse to work best you need a cooler that exhausts air out of the case. I had a similar CPU temp rise with a down-blower as you have (though not from an Antec 900).
 
Airflow will definitely be better on the 830 as you can install 3x 120mm fans in the front. Dont listen to the people calling it ugly - it looks awesome :p

Should have got the 832 though...
 
C64 said:
thats funny as the eclipse is probably one of the best for air cooling
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I have to say that the 830 is the better of the two for cooling. Thats from my first hand view as owned both of them with the exactly the same rig.

I first had the 830. I loved it at first although really didn't have the room. I changed over to the Eclipse about 6 months after and found the ambient case temp rose by 2-4c.

I like the idea with the Cooler Master 830 that you can mount the PSU upside down so it drags air from the top. Where Cooler Master have placed a vent. Therefore making the PSU run so much cooler.

Need Photos mate :) Love the 830 in black.
 
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there we are :)
 
pics here:

www.fisha.co.uk/stacker

not exactly sure what parts you want pics of so theres a few there

1st one is the space at the front of the case where a raptor X can be stood up.. with the locking cd drives above

2nd is space for power supply

3rd an overall view of my messy cables (mainly to show the space between the gfx card and the hard drives)

4th is the hard drive rack which can be taken out as a whole piece, has the green fan mounted on the front

tell me what bits you want pics of and ill try do it :)
 
Money shots please. :D

EDIT - Oooo is that a .3 rad hole precut in the bottom?
 
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