Return of an absolute classic.

Zen8 · 12 Oct 2006 at 12:43

Flanno said:
I remember the big problem was no intakes, so how is the hot video card going to get any air ?

That’s not true, they do have intakes, but insufficient. A small slot intake under the front door, and the venting by the side of the pci mounts, at the rear – although inevitably, the airflow from that doesn’t reach the hot part of a graphics card, but mostly getting sucked straight out the 80mm exh fan.

I’m not sure about £176. I’ve seen them struggling to sell for £50, on an auction site –new/boxed and the most popular colour, green. But they don’t come up often, and OcUK have them stocked, so...

Zen8 · 12 Oct 2006 at 14:07

Mike_T said:
That’s not true, they do have intakes, but insufficient. A small slot intake under the front door, and the venting by the side of the pci mounts, at the rear – although inevitably, the airflow from that doesn’t reach the hot part of a graphics card, but mostly getting sucked straight out the 80mm exh fan.

Hold up, now I’m not so sure about the intakes, or lack of. Certainly the version I used for a build, did have intakes.

The version reviewed here has intakes:
http://www.virtual-hideout.net/reviews/coolermaster_atc210/print.htm

But the version reviewed by MTB appears not to, which is bizarre:
http://www.modthebox.com/review110_1.shtml
They still managed to rate it 8 out of 10, which is equally bizarre - that case is seriously flawed :rolleyes:

beh · 12 Oct 2006 at 14:35

Hmm, for an atcs case its not really to my taste. Prolly just that for me, the whole point of a door is to obscure the front drive bays, using clear acrylic just looks odd and lacks function.

Moeks · 12 Oct 2006 at 17:15

I've actually got a green one of these, immaculate too. Shame the cooling performance isn't up to all that much by modern standards, beautiful case though with unparalleled build quality.

Flanno · 12 Oct 2006 at 18:33

Mike_T said:
That’s not true, they do have intakes, but insufficient.

What I meant was no fanintakes

androo · 12 Oct 2006 at 18:48

Moeks said:
I've actually got a green one of these, immaculate too. Shame the cooling performance isn't up to all that much by modern standards, beautiful case though with unparalleled build quality.

I also have the green one with the frosted door. Its deffinately one of the nicest cases I have owned with the only problem being that for me, the door opened the wrong way.

Still an excellent case.

uvarvu · 17 Jan 2007 at 07:56

Don't suppose there are any left are there?

pieman109 · 17 Jan 2007 at 08:41

Maybe I'm blind , daft or both, but I can't find them here at at all, not showing up in the cases listing page. :confused:

Nem · 17 Jan 2007 at 09:15

pieman109 said:
Maybe I'm blind , daft or both, but I can't find them here at at all, not showing up in the cases listing page.

I'd go with daft personally

This thread is 3 months old and they are very popular cases, how long do you think they were going to last on sale?

nick

uvarvu · 17 Jan 2007 at 09:18

Why did coolermaster stop making them? I know the wavemaster is a revision of them but it's still not really a substitute.

I used to have an ATCS 210c (purple), I so wish I never sold that now

Nem · 17 Jan 2007 at 09:20

Nahema said:
Why did coolermaster stop making them? I know the wavemaster is a revision of them but it's still not really a substitute.

I used to have an ATCS 210c (purple), I so wish I never sold that now

Because Coolermater fell out in some way with ATCS who actually designed the cases. Which is why current cases from Coolermaster are now just made by themselves and are nowhere near the same quality as the ATCS ones.

Nick

pieman109 · 17 Jan 2007 at 10:49

Nem said:
I'd go with daft personally

This thread is 3 months old and they are very popular cases, how long do you think they were going to last on sale?

nick

yep, deffo daft

, shoulda checked the date.

hardc0re_tid · 17 Jan 2007 at 15:17

they are lovely, just bought one on the MM for my media setup

Hades · 17 Jan 2007 at 22:54

Nem said:
Because Coolermater fell out in some way with ATCS who actually designed the cases. Which is why current cases from Coolermaster are now just made by themselves and are nowhere near the same quality as the ATCS ones.

Nick

As I understand it, ATCS was the division within Coolermaster that designed and built their cases. Some of the ATCS designers then split from CM and went on to form Silverstone.

CM cases are no longer of the same quality and while some Silverstone cases are, they are not quite as consistent acrss the range.

Did I get that right? Anyone???

Lunatic Dreyfus · 18 Jan 2007 at 19:56

Oooh, I had a 220 model about three years ago. They were even prettier than the 210's. It cost me a fortune, was outrageously impractical, but I could just sit and look at it... Trouble was I just started getting in to overclocking at the same time, and the cooling on these otherwise stunning cases was, shall we say, a bit pants.

Now I'm in the SilverStone camp and you can see the ATCS class shining through. Far more so than my previous case, a Wavemaster.

Van Diemen · 18 Jan 2007 at 22:03

Iv got a green 201, still in mint condition, use it for my work rig. Its a shame we cant get them any more.

lozza · 19 Jan 2007 at 09:49

Hades said:
As I understand it, ATCS was the division within Coolermaster that designed and built their cases. Some of the ATCS designers then split from CM and went on to form Silverstone.

CM cases are no longer of the same quality and while some Silverstone cases are, they are not quite as consistent acrss the range.

Did I get that right? Anyone???

Yes your right, the idea to build aluminium cases came from someone in cooler masters Japan office (Soldam Windy were producing alu cases and that's where the idea came from) The company was set up by the now president of Silverstonetek, When ATCS-tek (not the original name of the company) became popular enough to start trading in their own right cooler master put a stop to it, hence a big fall out and the guy started up silverstone with many of the original designers going with him.