Coolermaster Black Stacker 830

Mansize_tissue · 18 Jul 2007 at 15:44

MilanoChris said:
What other cases for this budget compare apart from the ones listed?

What sort of budget, exactly? The Thermaltake Armor and Kandalf are very similar, in that they use a stacker-like design.

RoachycaL · 18 Jul 2007 at 16:29

optimus said:
I really really like the look of one of these, but how good are they?

Anyone got one?

Ive got one - Its great - Well worth the money

Mansize_tissue · 18 Jul 2007 at 23:17

RoachycaL said:
Ive got one - Its great - Well worth the money

I recommend it, too. People often say the cooling isn't that great; in fact, pretty poor for the money, but i disagree. The cooling in mine is fantastic.
People also say that airflow is messed up by all the mesh everything but, when i covered the mesh up (with foil

), my system temperatures increased across the board.

frustin · 1 Oct 2007 at 12:07

Mansize_tissue said:
I recommend it, too. People often say the cooling isn't that great; in fact, pretty poor for the money, but i disagree. The cooling in mine is fantastic.
People also say that airflow is messed up by all the mesh everything but, when i covered the mesh up (with foil ), my system temperatures increased across the board.

what fans you got in yours (attached to the case)? what cpu hsf are you using?

Mansize_tissue · 3 Oct 2007 at 01:48

frustin said:
what fans you got in yours (attached to the case)? what cpu hsf are you using?

I started out with just a couple of Scythe S-Flex 1600RPM fans: one attached to my Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme heatsink. However, over the past few weeks I've added a few more. Now I have 2 HDD bays in the front, both with 120mm Scythe S-Flex 1600RPM fans attached to the front of them, and one has a 1200RPM one attached to the back of it. I also have another 1600RPM one at the back of the case to exhaust air, another on the heatsink. I've also added 2 92mm fans: one at the bottom of the case to blow air into my graphics card, and another resting on top of the graphics card aiming at the RAM and NB heatsink.

frustin · 3 Oct 2007 at 15:31

your house will implode from the vaccum that you must surely be causing. Got a piccy to show the fans placement and i'm especially interested in the CPU HSF inside. did you have any problems? bending fins, that sort of thing?

p.s. I'm getting an 830.

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