Case Reccomendation

skinner88

skinner88

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hi,

i have a current system:

Case: Wizard case with a 20cm side fan which is pants imo

MotherBoard: Asus M3N78 Pro NVIDIA 8300 SLi (Socket AM2+)

Ram: Kingston 800 MHz not sure exact one

CPU: AMD Phenom 9950 Black Edition 2.60GHz stock heat shink

PowerSupply: Ocz Stealth X Stream 600W

Graphics card: 9800GTX + DK soon to be replaced with 4870HD

dvd Drive: not important

Hard drive: very old SATA II drive running at 5200 RPM soon to be replaced with a Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB

looking for a silent case with very good cooling and air flow ( don't mind water cooling or gas cooling) that won't make my room look like a rave or a disco when i turn the light off.

looking to spend a around 100-150 pounds, if builtin gas or water cooling looking at 200-400 pounds


any reccomendation

thanks in advance :) planning on being one of the last cases i buy till i finish uni
 
done some searching on it and its an ATX Form Factor 12 inch x 9.6 inch ( 30.5 cm x 24.4 cm ) , thanks for the feed back guys just taking a look at some of the suggestion, had a look at the Coolermaster RC-1000 Cosmos Silent looks okay but saw the highieght and weight and nearly fell off the chair in shock
 
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Coolermaster HAF: it has the PSU at the bottom and does not have a seprate compartment for it won't the heat from the PSU just travel from the bottom of the case past the graphics card and processor generating more heat ?
 
was just wondering if the cable mangement on the Akasa Eclipse 62 Case was any good?

looks pritty nice any problems with installing Graphic card and big heats sinks i hope not the case looks and massive.

sorry to take so long to reply work doesnt like me spending to much time on OC :S
 
sweet nice to know, i was actauly looking into getting the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro to replace me stock heat sink as well the stock one is pants and is a bit on the loud side when its under a load of pressure.

(well not quite that loud but still)

sorry to ask a question within a question, but do you know if there is any good PCI fans ( simular to the ram Fans you can get) just to keep the heat lower on the graphics card?
 
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hate to say i do not really like the concept of the Antec cases specailly as the slot for the power supply is bottom mount i dont understand why they would make like that as the heat would rise through all your other compnents to leave the case or am i missing somthing there.
 
excuse me for this but holy crap that is a massive amount of space after the graphics card my current one barely fits. gonna get the case :D just gotta wait till the end of the month so i can buy my new hard drive, graphics cards and heatsink as well save me from having to take it apart more than once :D cheers for your input guys very helpful :)


( btw if any one comes across some one having issue with the my mobo power cutting out and all power need to be drained bfore it will work again they have to flash the bios, was a bit annoyed that i got an asus mobo with a rubbish bios but it works fine now but took a lot of time and a few forums to fiqure it out)
 
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