Enlight 8950

AthlonTom · 18 Jul 2007 at 11:52

Just ordered one of these as a uk site has the price massively wrong.

Its a 5u case that can be floor standing or rackmounted, 9x 5.25 inch drive bays - looks like a promising project case:

http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=1037
This link is an early revision of the case (changed to 120mm fan plus other little refinements)

Ideas? Im thinking of like a bladed M-ATX enclosure

misterPK · 18 Jul 2007 at 11:55

I hope you got it for pence, cos other than being huge that thing is ugly!!

PK!

AthlonTom · 18 Jul 2007 at 13:52

misterPK said:
I hope you got it for pence, cos other than being huge that thing is ugly!!

PK!

Uglies not a problem - its going to be all black, tis a very deep case though!

EDIT: I did indeed get it for pence!

AthlonTom · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:00

Well got the box opened on Sunday and its an awesome piece of kit! Perfect for a roomy and quiet PC.

Hopefully I'll start the build this weekend (away with work this week)

So today I'm going to order the stuff.

The case has a pair of 120mm fans at around 40mm depth each, can anyone recomend a good 40mm depth 120mm fan?

the case also only has 1 3.5 inch drive bay. So whats the consensus on the best way of putting HDD's in 5.25 bays? I can either get an IcyDock thing that consumes 3 bays and hold 5 drives, or just get brackets or something, anythoughts? Wouldn't mind something quite novel!

misterPK · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:03

Well if you want something novel and with the added bonus of being quiet, suspend them with elastic. Havent tried it myself as I havent the room in my small case, but it seems to be a popular mod on here.

PK!

AthlonTom · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:09

misterPK said:
Well if you want something novel and with the added bonus of being quiet, suspend them with elastic. Havent tried it myself as I havent the room in my small case, but it seems to be a popular mod on here.

PK!

Clever hover!

misterPK · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:36

LOL, gonna paint them orange too?

PK!

AthlonTom · 25 Jul 2007 at 13:27

misterPK said:
LOL, gonna paint them orange too?

PK!

Actually - I think black and orange would look pretty cool...!

misterPK · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:00

Hmm, slow down or swap out the motor so its not as fast or loud and a flymo would make a good case with airflow like that....

Anyone got a broken one??

PK!