Lian Li A70FB or A71FB or CM ATCS840

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for the looks and design i would choose the Lian Li PC-A70FB

the three cases should have enough space for good cable menagement..since its a full tower..
 
Ace Modder said:
Have you not considered the Corsair 800D?
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Well its a nice case but at over £200 its a bit of a stretch...I was originally looking at £150 for a good quality tower case but would have went a bit further for the A71.....another £60 for the 800D would mean cutting corners elsewhere :/
 
Is noise aspect important?
Because of door A71 is quieter than rather standard open fronted A70 and ATCS840's design is somewhere in between.

Are you going to have many HDDs and especially is use of RAID in plans or possible?
10 HDD bays of Lian Lis is definitely better for that possibility.

In stock cable management "both" are about similar and need some work but lots of space is good for that:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18106356


For drawing out heat from between multiple expansion cards without own (exhausting) cooling Lian Li's toolless gimmick replacing PCI cooling kit is cleaner approach than ATCS's rear wart and keeps working when cards have solid rear cover.
Also in Lian Li you can replace I/O port module when ever they standardize internal pin header for USB3 and motherboards actually start to support it.
 
Purely on the basis that it's likely to offer the best airflow, and the style is beautiful, it's the A70FB for me.
ATCS840 is a close 2nd for the same reasons as above.

The AF1FB is too plain and I'd have to wonder just how poor the airflow is.
 
jeckulz said:
Purely on the basis that it's likely to offer the best airflow, and the style is beautiful, it's the A70FB for me.
ATCS840 is a close 2nd for the same reasons as above.

The AF1FB is too plain and I'd have to wonder just how poor the airflow is.
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yeah lol..

about AF1FB:

what if you had the front door panel closed, wheres the airflow in the two fans in front? =/
 
reeceLAV said:
what if you had the front door panel closed, wheres the airflow in the two fans in front? =/
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Doing one easy turn for low viscosity fluid while sound mashes its face to wall and bounces around couple times before limping out with bloody nose.
What little airflow loss that causes is insignificant compared to being able to keep fans running at notably higher speed for same noise level. Airflow/pressure rises in direct relation to RPM and for heatsinks that extra speed can make noticeable difference to efficiency.

Corsair's design of having only intake fan first needing to draw air in through cheap stamped mesh and then blow it through another equally cheap mesh directly in the worst possible place (directly in front of blades) is sure to cause lot more airflow loss or do laws of physics stop applying because it's Corsair and their marketing says otherwise?
 
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