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Elzhi

Elzhi

Elzhi

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i won't be watercooling.

main priorities

cool
quiet
cable management
simple design


bonus

removable motherboard tray
black interior
dust filters

i won't be watercooling.


i was thinking of coolermaster cosmos pure or coolermaster cosmos atcs 840.
 
Coolermaster ATCS 840 is a great case. It had the removable mobo tray, dust filters, good cable management, very simple and plain design. It is also reasonably quiet I would say.
 
beefybarn said:
Corsair 800D, play around with the fans and cools really well.
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I was also going to suggest that as an alternative. It is meant to be a very good case. People debate if it really is good for air cooling, but I think a few people have now proved it is good for both water and air.
 
The 800D is really more a w/c case. Whilst it's true many people have had good results on air, equally a lot haven't and when you're paying this kind of money, people shouldn't be running into temp problems regardless of air/water.
 
Elzhi said:
coolermaster cosmos pure or coolermaster cosmos atcs 840.
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Cosmos has silencing wise "externally" quite nice design but HDD cooling isn't really up to the job (mostly thanks to that very complex HDD cage system) and especially for clearly intake limited case internal airflow could use redirecting for getting air to places where it's most needed. (also minimal noise means less airflow to start with so better to use it efficiently)

ATCS 840 is nice simple design and would be my definite favorite from CM's selection but HDD mounting went to so fashionable plasticky direction which leaves little too much possibility for loose light parts to amplify HDD noises. (and if that plastic tray touches HDD route is open for vibration to spread forward)
Depending where you would keep the case pretty open top could leak CPU/GPU cooler noises out near directly toward you.


With that price limit Lian Li A71F would be obvious candidate with closed no-direct noise escape paths and simple single chamber front in-back out airflow design.
http://www.cpu3d.com/review/8207-7/lian-li-pc-a71f-full-tower-chassis/verdict-and-conclusion.html



Corsair's HDD mounting is straight from servers so only factor saving it from serious HDD vibrations going all over the place is heavy steel construction. (which still doesn't stop vibration... because construction is thin enough to move case without forklift)
Again top is rather open.

madindehead said:
People debate if it really is good for air cooling, but I think a few people have now proved it is good for both water and air.
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With spacious E-ATX full tower it's harder to have actually bad cooling... but that does in no way mean it's even close to optimal utilisation of airflow.
 
i thought about 800d but for £210 the case should be perfect or very near, spending £20-60 on extra fans/and or scythe kama bay is out of the question imo.

i went with atcs 840 in the end, its not the best looking case in the world but its features make it up for it.

thanks to all who posted :)
 
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