Avoid the v1000 like the plague.
Buy the v1000+ or v1000+II and you are laughing though, all the faults with the original have been fixed, can fit any PSU you want into it although you have to sacrifice 3 hard drive spaces but this is rarely an issue.
The front fan is an intake, as is the rear fan for most rigs.
The v1000+ is essentially two separate cooling zones, you have the airflow at the bottom of the case, intake through the front fan and its filter through to the PSU with its intake on the bottom of the case and out the back. Gives stunning PSU temperatures and the lowest of any case on the market, although most people do not worry about them.
The top area can be tricky, depending on your rig the rear fan may be best either as an intake or exhaust, adding the blower fan (or the side panel grilled fan) can lead to changing the rear fan. It is all down to just toying around with what works best for your system.
I have owned the v1000 from release, then sold on v1000+ release day to get the v1000+ which is the superior of the two in every possible way especially years on.
Buy a v1000 with the + or plus and you are laughing, one of the finest cases ever made and more a research and development for Lian Li than anything if you take a look at the way their case designs are going, but it is a good looker built to the highest standard with good cooling.
Can not ask much more than that, I certainly will not be selling my v1000+ unless it is absolutely necessary.
Yeah, CustomPC and the rest aint too good. But with Bit-Tech you can discuss the verdict in the forums and that way its much better to get an opinion.
NZXT Better than P180 for silence? LOL.
P180, Antec Solo, S80B...etc etc are perfect for silence matters.
With the hard mounting drives, vents in the side for the noise to leak out no sound proofing and Cramped size its not one for the silence computer. Also the pop out PCI slots make me cringe.
Can you fit a Scythe Ninja in there?
No idea, but I would imagine it would fit.
After owning and silencing a P180, S80b, Akasa Eclipse, v1000+ and PC7+ the two easiest cases to silence (and I mean silent = inaudible) while maintaining good cooling were the Eclipse and the PC7+.
The cooling in the P180 and S80b goes to pot when you start getting to low noise levels. The sound proofing does not work and the dual sides on the S80b only work in the most minuscule amount, you buy the S80b as it is a well built super case.
The best way to silence a computer is to have minimal fans running at minimal speeds and just eliminate the noise at the source rather than trying to mask it.
A noisy graphics card in a Eclipse at 50db will be 50db in a P180 although potentially slightly muffled, a 0db passive graphics card will be the same in both cases although the Eclipse will cool better at the lower CFM.
There are two ways to silence a computer, eliminate the source of the noise or mask the noise so it becomes inaudible. The cheapest method is usually to tackle the source.
I will agree that it is easier to make a QUIET pc in the P180 or S80b, if you are just bunging in normal off the shelf components into the PC of course the cases with thicker panels will fare better, but when you start trying to silence them they can give no end of trouble.
My S80b is running on one 5v Akasa Amber fan, the Seasonic S12 Energy+ PSU and a VF900cu on the graphics card. The CPU is cooled by a Zalman Reserator 1+.
I have placed two bath towels in between my side panels and my hard drives are in Silentmaxx Enclosures.
This makes my computer completely inaudible from 20cm away and nigh on inaudible with your ear up to the computer.
It was far harder to silence this than the 120mm in 120mm out computers I have used, maintaining adequate airflow on a complicated case for cooling like the S80 which benefits from high CFM is to put it politely a pain in the rear.
