The New Cases Gallery

Amidar · 20 Jul 2011 at 12:38

Just re-done my case,removed my X58 setup & watercoling & replaced it with a Z68 setup on air cooling.

Freddie589 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:04

Amidar, why didnt you keep your watercooling?

Amidar · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:14

Freddie589 said:
Amidar, why didnt you keep your watercooling?

My X58 setup used to run very hot, this Z68 doesn't so watercooling is overkill for me.

Jony27 · 20 Jul 2011 at 13:18

it would still look sweet with the red/black braiding/theme

Steves1982 · 20 Jul 2011 at 20:25

Amidar said:
Just re-done my case,removed my X58 setup & watercoling & replaced it with a Z68 setup on air cooling.

Looks amazing mate, thought about doing a matching colour scheme in mine but never get around to it!

Duesix · 20 Jul 2011 at 20:27

Amidar said:
Just re-done my case,removed my X58 setup & watercoling & replaced it with a Z68 setup on air cooling.

that looks very shmexy

Amidar · 20 Jul 2011 at 20:30

Thanks for the comments guys

Only thing i'm not too happy about is the GTX580 sticker.

johnsparton10 · 21 Jul 2011 at 07:18

Could you not somehow paint or spray the sticker red? Sweet rig btw

iamtheoneneo · 21 Jul 2011 at 09:09

johnsparton10 said:
What case is that iamtheoneneo? YOu have the same rig as me (is that a 2gig 5870?) and it looks very tidy in that case. Am about to go to uni and want to change case from my HAF 932

690 II advanced, i have 7 sata ports being used aswell lol, not bad for cabling tbf.

johnsparton10 · 21 Jul 2011 at 23:07

No not at all, i only use 4 of mine and yours is better looking than mine! Is the case quite strong? Cooler master do great gear

J-FRO · 22 Jul 2011 at 14:51

Very nice. Don't you find it annoying though how on many top-end cards they always put the two 6 pin power socks on that side of the card so you can never route the cables nicely.

Peeves me quite a bit.

EniGmA1981 · 22 Jul 2011 at 15:07

Yeah I'll agree with that! IMO they should redesign them so the power connectors are on the tail edge and at the bottom (closest to the mobo)

Would make cable management so much easier lol

But yeah, Amidar - nice setup! looks great

(spray those fans red though, I would

primer grey is not a flattering colour lol)

synaesthesia · 22 Jul 2011 at 17:41

Due to the joys of inquisitive kids, I decided to ditch my Zalman GS1000 monster and go for something a little more unobtrusive. I had already experimented with lockable cupboards and even a DIY breakout box containing the power switch which sat on a shelf above my desk. However I got tired of still having to unlock for the DVD drives etc.

So, I needed a case to fit full ATX yet was small and light enough to sit safely on a shelf above my desk. Easy choice, it was the Lian-Li A05-NB by a long way. The only thing I'm not a fan of is the back-to-front design however it does seem to work rather well, and ambient temps are lower than the GS1000, despite now having less airflow. (The old case housed a Scythe Mugen).

So, in situ:

And some gratitious internal shots:

Bought the H60 too for space reasons. The Mugen would have, oddly enough, fitted quite snugly but I just felt like this case might be cramped enough.

It's an old PC now but it still serves me very well. Core2Quad Q6600 G0 at 3.6GHz, 8GB OCZ Platinum RAM, 60GB Vertex 2 boot drive, 2 x Samsung F3 1TB in Raid 0 (backed up externally), ATI HD5770, SB X-Fi XtremeMusic.

Awful cable management, tried several times to improve it

Spot the ever useful electrical tape and extra heatsinks on the 5770

Jony27 · 22 Jul 2011 at 17:47

do you have the h60 as intake and front fan/psu as outtake?

synaesthesia · 22 Jul 2011 at 18:33

Yup. Tried the other way round but it appears dragging the air over the hard drives made it a little too warm.

khemist · 23 Jul 2011 at 13:19

How bad does that floppy connector to the soundcard stick out? :mad:

Need another 6 pin pcie cable and to heatshrink the bare wires on psu.

KiiYzOo · 23 Jul 2011 at 13:26

wow that looks good

Robertnpmk · 23 Jul 2011 at 13:53

khemist said:
How bad does that floppy connector to the soundcard stick out?

Just abit, you kinda need a white braided extension for it. in a black case it would be fine.

Robertnpmk · 23 Jul 2011 at 13:59

is it me or does that sound card look abit bent? kindoff twisted!

khemist · 23 Jul 2011 at 14:09

Only a small part of the card is actually slotted in so it bends a bit... the black cable wouldnt look so bad if i was using an atx board rather than matx so would be closer to the cutout.