New Case Help

USER854 · 16 Sep 2010 at 17:20

Help me, I can’t decide!

I’m after ditching my Antec 1200 and replacing it with a Silverstone FT02 but I can’t make up my mind whether or not to go for a windowed one or plain sided.

Having a window would be nice along with some subtle LED lighting, but if I go for the plain none windowed version I imagine that would be a little quieter given that the whole panel has sound deadening material covering it.

Given the choice what would you OCUK’ers go for?

Lobwan · 16 Sep 2010 at 20:18

I would go for the FT02B-WRI. Black with a red inside and a window looks pretty cool.
Also it has the upgraded Air Pentrator 180mm fans in the bottom.

But I guess the windowless one would be better with the sound levels, less flashy and a bit cheaper.

Its down to personal taste in the end

The window is on the right of this case so it would need to sit on your left so you could stare inside it when your sat at your pc lol

SilverStone Rep · 17 Sep 2010 at 02:44

Just go with the one you like to look at. The sound level difference between the window and windowless FT02 will be very little to probably not make a difference for most people.

coldfused · 17 Sep 2010 at 21:00

Hey USER854, I saw this video with the Sliverstone case eariler (unboxing), this was the windowed one, so you can check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tjharlow

I think it has foam inside to dampen the noise.

sir-les-mp · 17 Sep 2010 at 22:44

looking at that vid is does have sound dampening foam around the inside of the window panel so it should reduce the amount of vibration niose from the case.

USER854 · 18 Sep 2010 at 15:19

Thanks everyone I've finally decided to go for the windowed one with the standard black interior, the red one just screams AMD/ATI to me & I fear my chipset/graphics card might take offence.

While they’re out I've also decided to get rid of the Mobo's standard heatsinks & replace them with EnzoTech/Thermalright jobs, and since I'm doing that I'll be getting some Arctic Cooling MX-4 to slap on them too.

I hear it's the king of pastes you know...