Yewen said:
Just get back to us with how you find the case, getting feedback on things you have recommend people allows you to advise others that little bit better next time.
I have now removed my PC from the old case (a JeanTech I think) and put it into the Zen.
The install process was pretty straight forward, took all the components out, gave them a good 'dusting', decided I didn't need to fit a couple of things into the new case (like an Extra CD-RW and a serial port) and put them into the Zen. Had a bit of a shuffle around of some of the cards (firewire card, USB ports etc).
This is the old and new together.
and this is the new arrangement.
(those eagle eyed folk out there may spot a 'deliberate mistake' (that was corrected after the photo was taken)
The cpu temp (idle) is pretty much the same as before(43c), remember I had no cooling on mine but did have the sides off but the m/b temp has gone down from 28 to 24. I haven't tried it at load yet (all these temp are at stock).
I don't know if the front comes off the case but it might have made it slightly easier to put the hard drive into it, this had to be loaded from inside the case.
One thing I will say is that the machine is now extremelly quiet
Never having been one for tidying the inside of the case I dare say that some will have some comments about the state of this one. I have tried to keep the cables from resembling a birds nest in front of the fans (as it used to).
Next step now is to convince the wife I need a Core2Duo, new mobo and a new graphics card, after all, it will play her minesweeper and spider solitair quicker.
