New Case presumably, need advice.

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Tigjaw

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Hello,
I've just bought all the components for the system I'm building and I realised I may need a new PC case.

Here's my thread but just for convenience here's all my components:

Motherboard:
Intel DP965LT 965 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-011-IN) £88
Processor:
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-128-IN) £250
RAM:
G.Skill 2GB DDR2 HZ PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS4 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBHZ) (MY-013-GS) £174
Graphics:
Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO) £164
PSU:
Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU (CA-009-TG) £82
Cooler/Fan:
Thermaltake Big Typhoon 4 in 1 Heatpipe (Socket 939/754/775/478) CPU Cooler (CL-P0114) (HS-007-TT) £30

competitors listed on site - sorry, don't mean to sound sarcastic but, PCservice call don't sell anything.

Will I need a new case? My current case is from my eMachines 5240 and the motherboard was a Micro-ATX.

competitors listed on site

There's so many different details for the cases on overclockers so I'd really appreciate it if you could suggest a case without a PSU/cooler as I've already bought those components as listed above.

Thanks and sorry for another thread about my computer :D
 
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Aye up, a Typhoon. Is it removable? Even if it is it would be a waste though but then again it's a cheap case so wouldn't be wasting much.

Anyhoo, is the Super Lanboy likely to be back in stock any time soon? The Lian Li is a minger! lol.
 
gr1mey said:
what do you mean????
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The typhoon, that's a fan right? Well, can you remove it? because if you can then I could remove it so it doesn't collide with my Tagan. But if I removed it I'd be removing a perfectly good 'typhoon' :)
But then again, it's the cheapest case so even if I did remove the 'typhoon' it wouldn't really matter.

Sorry if I'm not making sense :)

Raikiri, which Lian Li do you have? Because the Lian Li PC-7 doesn't look very pretty from the picture.
 
gr1mey said:
The Big Typhoon is a HSF (Heatsink and Fan)

It would be the size of the "typhoon" heatsink thats the problem here. not the fan - of course you can replace the fan, but I think what is being suggested is you might want to think of a HSF thats of a lower profile, as not to cause problems in the small Lanboy case.

in any event I'd go with a bigger case for that system, will be 100x easier to build and maintain.
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Thanks for the explanation! I was confused.

Raikiri, I'm not sure, the Lian Li PC7 looks a bit plain, could be just the picture...I'll think about it. :)

Is the Lian Li PC7 bigger than the Super Lanboy? And it wont have a typhoon will it? :D
 
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The
Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL)

isn't that bad, probably looks nicer in person, but not too keen on the white-grey one.

Is the Lian Li bigger than the Super Lanboy and will I have a similar problem to the typhoon thing?

Also, I've already ordered all my other components today, is there a way to add the case to the same delivery so I don't have to pay for delivery again?
 
Sorry I just confused myself! I forgot my cooler was called the "Big Typhoon" and thought you were saying the Super Lanboy already had one installed. Never mind.

So I wont have any problems with the Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Black Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU) (CA-054-LL)?
 
gr1mey said:
cant speak from experience on that front, but I would think not.

the PC7 is a very popular case around here. Not that I have one ;)


but then again, Im unpopular :o

:p
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awww I'm sure that's not true, at least you get kudos from me ;)

All I need to know now though is whether I can add this case to my order from earlier today, save deliveries hopefully.
 
There's all these snazzy cases I've seen and I don't know whether they'll fit my components.

Are you guys holding back? :) I don't have a budget for a case but I'd rather not spend over £80 for one.

Would any of the Thermaltake cases be any good?

If not, the Lian Li Silver is kinda growing on me, in the picture it looks white-gray but I found some other images of it and it did look more silvery. Does it actually look silver in person?
 
Thanks again Raikiri, it looks a hell of a lot nicer in those pictures. Somebody needs to sort out the overclockers image for it because to be honest when I first saw the Lian Li PC7 Silver case it looked no different to my friend's 10 year old IBM case! :)

Anyway, I've hassled around enough so I'll be ordering it ASAP, as long as I can add it to my previous order. I'll get on the phone to 'em anyway.

Thanks again everybody, can't wait to have my system up and running.

EDIT: Order added, all done and dusted!
 
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Will do Yewen, along with a summary of my beautiful rig :)

I'll give my work area a tidy first though hehe.

If everything arrives at the same time then I should have the Li Lian by the 14th/15th.
 
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