New case

zia

zia

zia

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Time has come for new case my Akasa Mirage has served me well but the recent rattling and resonace has done my head in.
1..Looking for case that has out of the box very good cooling
2..near silent as possible,or one that require only minor work to make it so
3..must have cpu heat sink cut out
4..come with anti-vibration hd cage or similar
5..at least be able to take minimum of 4 hd's
6..and have one external 3.5 bay for my caddy.

so far not many case's meet the this requirment
looking at this one
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=311&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=61
or this
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cases/2008/10/31/cooler-master-atcs-840-classic-review/1

any other i should consider?

Thank's zia
 
My current mirage has front door,so am not too fussed if case has a door.
i had looked at the p193 but they seem somewhat cramped for space, for working in and having dual gpus in p193 i've heard that second gpu tend's to heat up a bit?.

That Lian Li's bling bling model is again guilty to direct noise escape path
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so you wouldn't recommend the lian li?

zia
 
So you're not even supposed to use three out of five 5.25" bays... Great, from mid tower down to mini tower!
Thanks to tool-less PCI gimmick can't even take PCI cooler. Also that new metal HDD caddy/tray is anything else than optimized for airflow... it just increases size of airflow obstacle compared to plain HDD, is there even without HDD, masks most of the HDD from direct airflow and already provides HDD hard contact to part which can do its part for amplifying noise.
Going to be loud: input 120mm Fan @1500RPM + Front input 140mm Fan @1500RPM
Also useless Akasa/Spire etc. crapmat is there for making installing any actually useful stuff hard.

So probably going to cost nearly same as A71 while offering half the space, less cooling and in general downgrading/unutilitarian gimmicks.
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i assume most lian li are therfore out of the equation ,Back to the drawing board, am determind to find a case that meets with esat approval :D

By the way esat what case do you use? any pic's of it?


zia
 
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