Case Selection

kilvano · 1 Dec 2006 at 13:44

Have decided on my Spec for my Pc but still strugling with Case. Its gonna be sitting in my room so need a quiet PC and a decent looking one. My budget for the case is £100. Here is the spec

- Mitsumi FA 404M 7in1 USB 2.0 Floppy & Media Drive - Black
- 512MB XFX 7950GT XXX, PCI-E (x16), Mem 1600MHz, GPU 610MHz, 24 Pipes, Dual DVI/HDTV - totally silent
- 2 x Sony AW-G170AB2 18x DVD±RW x12 Ram Dual Layer DVD-Writer - (Black) OEM
- GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400UDC)
- Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
- Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
- Scythe Ninja Plus Rev.B Heatpipe CPU Cooler - very quiet
- Gigabyte GA_965P_DS3 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- Seasonic S12 600W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply - hopefully quiet
- 2 x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM - hopefully quit quiet

My current PC has perforated holes all along it (like the apple ones) and this means that it gets very dusty and its noisy. I dont really want neon lights either...they just bug me after a while.

Now i know that ill get shot down for this but i just dont like the Akasa cases...they look crap. They may be good performers but they look crap and if im spending £100 on a case i want it to look good.

So...here are some options...i prefer black cases and i also prefer ones without doors. Can never be bothered opening the door 20 times a day when i wanna use a dvd drive

Antek P180b - Has a door
Antek Nine Hundred Gaming Case - but has holes
CoolerMaster Mystique 632 Black Aluminum - kind of doors

Let me know what you think or suggest other ones

Cheers.

Macabre · 1 Dec 2006 at 13:54

Antec 900 has holes? you mean the grill on the front, good for cooling though.

If you don't want one with holes? a door on front etc then maybe the Lian Li PC-7?

kilvano · 1 Dec 2006 at 13:57

Isnt it perforated on the top and sides?

I just dont want it getting really dusty like my current one. Had to take the hoover to it the other day

EDIT - Quite like that Lian-Li case but keep the ideas coming.

Macabre · 1 Dec 2006 at 14:09

kilvano said:
Isnt it perforated on the top and sides?

I just dont want it getting really dusty like my current one. Had to take the hoover to it the other day

Well from what I've acknolodged from other members is that, dust is inveitable you can't stop it to be honest. You can reduce it but not fully stop it without your computer turning into a heat bomb.

Well im no doubt getting the 900 soon anyway, so basically I don't think you'd have such a huge dust issue with it, big parts of dust would be stuck on the grill just clean it off, small parts would no doubt just be blown out the back.

2 x 120mm fans at the front intake sucked in little bits of dust, 1x 120mm, 1x 200mm fan exausts at the back and top meaning dust would no doubt just be pushed out, then you have the psu, acts as an exaust. So if you ask me I don't think dust would have much of a chance to settle onto your hardware, meaning because its so windy? inside the case due to the fans it would be constantly shifted, theory or fact.

Other things people here reconmend you could do is put in fan filters so any dust that goes through the fan gets stuck to the fan filter meaning you just clean the filter, or as Yewen reconmends put tights over the fans, still allows airflow but stops dust. Again with the grill you could put up tights over the grill from the inside/outside, interesting theory lol but its said to work better then fan filters.

You could do regular matinence such as cleaning fans and grills and the inside of the computer. Using compressed air gets rid of it and gives your components a good clean but its expensive.

Edit: Well its not really perforated on the top, the top has the grill for the 200mm fan, large fan and it is an exaust not an intake fan so it pushes air out of the top. At the side it has a side window with a mesh, the mesh you can install another fan, but yes the mesh could possibly get a lot of dust, but you must be in a dusty environment, stick some material over it then?