Soldato
- Joined
- 19 Feb 2011
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I just built a system in a Corsair Carbide 500r for a family member and I cannot rate this case highly enough, really good airflow, super quiet and you can turn off the white led fans with a button, and the built in fan controller is a nice touch. Corsair cases are extremely high quality.
Also I swapped my rig into a new CM Storm Trooper on saturday, and wow what a case, I'm bewildered how much of a difference it's made to my cooling, my 2500k with my Antec Kuhler 920 was idling around 36c in my Zalman z9+, now in my storm trooper it idles around 29c, infact I've bumped it upto 4.4ghz with the auto oc in the bios and now it idles around 35c with the fans on medium.
And the amount of space to work with is so nice, I swapped the hard drive fans from their default side intake position to the front, at first I thought this was going to be a mission, but the drive cages all come apart and are actually indented with directions! Such a nice touch as this made it so easy to figure out what went where.
My only niggle is I wish they had put holes on the bottom fan areas to take a 140mm fan as I had to remove the rear case one to fit my kuhler radiator and now have a 140mm fan sat doing nothing, can even mount it on the side panel either as it doesn't have hones for a 140mm fan either, might have to get the drill out lol
Also I swapped my rig into a new CM Storm Trooper on saturday, and wow what a case, I'm bewildered how much of a difference it's made to my cooling, my 2500k with my Antec Kuhler 920 was idling around 36c in my Zalman z9+, now in my storm trooper it idles around 29c, infact I've bumped it upto 4.4ghz with the auto oc in the bios and now it idles around 35c with the fans on medium.
And the amount of space to work with is so nice, I swapped the hard drive fans from their default side intake position to the front, at first I thought this was going to be a mission, but the drive cages all come apart and are actually indented with directions! Such a nice touch as this made it so easy to figure out what went where.
My only niggle is I wish they had put holes on the bottom fan areas to take a 140mm fan as I had to remove the rear case one to fit my kuhler radiator and now have a 140mm fan sat doing nothing, can even mount it on the side panel either as it doesn't have hones for a 140mm fan either, might have to get the drill out lol
