Looking for an excellent Air Cooled Case?

drakulton · 30 Jan 2020 at 22:58

Or this

Quartz · 30 Jan 2020 at 23:03

Space Monkey said:
It'll be housing a either a Noctua NH-D15 or a Dark Rock Pro 4 CPU cooler, ATX motherboard, large air cooled GPU, basically a normal-ish PC.

Take a look at the Silverstone FT05. A Dark Rock Pro fits fine; the Noctua DH15 is too big. Note that Silverstone have a new rotated case in the offing. The rotated case eliminates the problem of GPU droop and makes the whole system much quieter - especially GPUs with blower coolers. The only issues with the FT05 are the difficulty of hiding cables behind the tray and there's no cut-out for the 8 pin CPU connector - you have to put it on before you seat the motherboard.

Space Monkey · 30 Jan 2020 at 23:16

Quartz said:
Take a look at the Silverstone FT05. A Dark Rock Pro fits fine; the Noctua DH15 is too big. Note that Silverstone have a new rotated case in the offing. The rotated case eliminates the problem of GPU droop and makes the whole system much quieter - especially GPUs with blower coolers. The only issues with the FT05 are the difficulty of hiding cables behind the tray and there's no cut-out for the 8 pin CPU connector - you have to put it on before you seat the motherboard.

Ooo, I like as I had fond memories of my FT02 and the air cooling was first class, though it looks like a tight squeeze in there?

Silverstone could really bring out a smash hit if they made a modern high quality version of the FT02!

Quartz · 30 Jan 2020 at 23:24

Space Monkey said:
Ooo, I like as I had fond memories of my FT02 and the air cooling was first class, though it looks like a tight squeeze in there?

Not really. I have one and the issues are the ones I described. Apparently the new case is called the Alta. Since it uses 200mm fans I'm guessing they've made extra space at the back. I hope they produce a mini version - only two 200mm fans.

Quartz · 30 Jan 2020 at 23:32

There's also the Alta F1 - skip to the 23 minute mark

Mcnumpty2323 · 31 Jan 2020 at 10:41

drakulton said:
Here's one I made earlier,

That case looks so empty lol

drakulton · 31 Jan 2020 at 15:13

Mcnumpty2323 said:
That case looks so empty lol

Actually, it's stuffed full of cool air.

evohicks · 8 Apr 2020 at 17:52

drakulton said:
I've got a H500P mesh in white. You can tests the designs of new aircraft in it as its a wind tunnel.
NH-D14, 1070 +Morpheus II cooler + Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM fans. Very silent.

I'm seriously thinking of getting this but still unsure about the RGB connections, I take it that the fans can all connect separately if you hve the fan headers on the Motherboard but how do you control the RGB?

drakulton · 8 Apr 2020 at 22:00

evohicks said:
I'm seriously thinking of getting this but still unsure about the RGB connections, I take it that the fans can all connect separately if you hve the fan headers on the Motherboard but how do you control the RGB?

There's a little control box with a button that allows you to cycle through the colours and breathing effect. If you need to there's a socket on the box that allows you to plug in a two pin extension and have a push-button outside of the case.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/1839189344...MIjLrnqdzZ6AIVUUHTCh1lsQ0kEAQYAiABEgIRk_D_BwE

Baron C · 9 Apr 2020 at 23:17

Space Monkey said:
Silverstone could really bring out a smash hit if they made a modern high quality version of the FT02!

I wish they would I still have mine using it for workstation.

evohicks · 11 Apr 2020 at 07:12

drakulton said:
There's a little control box with a button that allows you to cycle through the colours and breathing effect. If you need to there's a socket on the box that allows you to plug in a two pin extension and have a push-button outside of the case.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/1839189344...MIjLrnqdzZ6AIVUUHTCh1lsQ0kEAQYAiABEgIRk_D_BwE

Well I ummed and ahh'd for a while before deciding to keep my HAF 922 case, its pretty much the same size as the 500p so I bought some RGB fans for it, 2 X 200mm on the front, 2 x 120mm on top and 1 x 120mm exhaust fan at rear.

After setting these up (Thermaltake Pure ARGB Sync) they look awesome!
I managed to get them running with Gigabytes RGB Fusion 2 which I wasn't expecting to do after reading endless forums about people struggling to get it working properly, so I haven't even contemplated using the included controller.

Just got to remove the shroud in the front so I can properly accommodate the other front 200mm fan but they really sync up well with my Aorus motherboard lighting.

drakulton · 11 Apr 2020 at 11:29

evohicks said:
Well I ummed and ahh'd for a while before deciding to keep my HAF 922 case, its pretty much the same size as the 500p so I bought some RGB fans for it, 2 X 200mm on the front, 2 x 120mm on top and 1 x 120mm exhaust fan at rear.

After setting these up (Thermaltake Pure ARGB Sync) they look awesome!
I managed to get them running with Gigabytes RGB Fusion 2 which I wasn't expecting to do after reading endless forums about people struggling to get it working properly, so I haven't even contemplated using the included controller.

Just got to remove the shroud in the front so I can properly accommodate the other front 200mm fan but they really sync up well with my Aorus motherboard lighting.

You'll have to put some images up when you're finished. It'll be interesting to see with all the RGB bling.

evohicks · 11 Apr 2020 at 18:45

Well I have managed to fit the 200mm fan in the front bottom, a 120mm fan above it (manufacturing a bracket of sorts) then another 200mm fan right up top, a 120mm fan at rear and one more 120mm on the base, the video quality is a bit naff but you get the general idea, so many colour options to choose......
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EGXs7VtWfFQ