The New Cases Gallery

Jayster · 15 Jun 2012 at 12:17

Yep G.Skill Ripjaws x is fine for height, I have a D14 installed and all is well.

Liquid_Entity · 15 Jun 2012 at 12:31

Excellent Smithers !!

I know what I am buying next month

Dark Sun · 16 Jun 2012 at 19:38

KiiYzOo · 16 Jun 2012 at 19:40

mmmmmmmm nice

J-FRO · 17 Jun 2012 at 21:17

Liquid, I'm not too sure about your board but I did manage to fit in a CM Hyper 212 in my case along side my vengeance ram that has the tall heat sinks. It was a tight squeeze but it did work. So maybe if you find something a little thinner you could be ok?

JCBeastie · 18 Jun 2012 at 03:08

Dark Sun that looks great... I love a dark scheme.

Staffy50 · 20 Jun 2012 at 11:11

Nice build Dark Sun. Very neat and tidy

Kurisu Makise · 21 Jun 2012 at 00:32

Druster said:

how good would you say those fans are? im tempted but £19 a piece hmm.

Helios1234 · 21 Jun 2012 at 01:03

minty · 21 Jun 2012 at 22:15

^lovely case! nice build

Gripen90 · 22 Jun 2012 at 10:06

Jony27 · 22 Jun 2012 at 11:17

whats the temps like on the GPUs?

flame696 · 22 Jun 2012 at 17:41

^^try and do some cable management and it will look so much better

Hicks · 22 Jun 2012 at 20:28

flame696 said:
^^try and do some cable management and it will look so much better

Old case = Not many cable management options

flame696 · 22 Jun 2012 at 21:37

Cloudstomp said:
Old case = Not many cable management options

That's why the dremel was invented

Seyumi · 23 Jun 2012 at 06:52

Thought I would spread some Alienware love. I poured blood, sweat, and tears making this piece of **** made in China Dell case and computer components into something worthy. Had to do full powder coat, 100% hardware swap, additional PWN fans, individual sleeving, anti-vibration screws and rubber, additional aluminum metal inserts, etc. This case was specifically designed to not have any modification either and was the hardest build I have ever done in my entire life (I've done dozen of builds) I know this isn't a "build" thread so I posted links below to see what it looked like before. Specifications are in my signature.

http://seyumi.com/NEWA2.JPG
http://seyumi.com/NEWA3.JPG
http://seyumi.com/NEWA1.JPG
http://seyumi.com/A2.JPG
http://seyumi.com/A3.JPG

Here's what it looked like before:

http://seyumi.com/OLDA2.JPG
http://seyumi.com/OLDA3.JPG
http://seyumi.com/OLDA1.JPG
http://seyumi.com/OLDA4.JPG

This is what it took to tear down the case to powder coat it. There isn't ANY components in this picture.

http://seyumi.com/AWC2.JPG

Please resize images in future!

Jony27 · 23 Jun 2012 at 11:34

dangggg, must have took a lot of time disassembling/assembling it.

Gripen90 · 23 Jun 2012 at 13:45

flame696 said:
That's why the dremel was invented

I won't use a dremel for this case since it won't improve much. The only other case I'd upgrade to would be CM 690 II advaced nVidia Edition, but that won't be untill this case fails completely. I've had it since 2009 and love it.

There's a lot af cable management being done here, but the Toughpower PCI-E cables are 65cm in length and the case is just 47cm tall - this spoils the impression. Also each PCI-E cable has a thickness of nearly 1 cm and that's too think to have running on the back side, because the clearance between the motherboard tray and the side panel is no less than 1cm.
Therefore I have 6x 1cm think PCIE cables in the bottom of the case looking like a serpent lies there.

My other system is in a Fractal Define R3.
AMD Phenom II X6 [email protected], Asus M4N82 Deluxe, 8GB Crucial BallistiX DDR2 PC6400 CL7, CM GX750 PSU, 2x Gigabyte GTX460-OC 1GB SLi, Seagate 500GB 7200.11 Barracuda.

Gripen90 · 23 Jun 2012 at 14:04

Jony27 said:
whats the temps like on the GPUs?

Idle around 38~42 degrees celcius. In load 78 degrees celcius for the hottest and 68 degrees celcius for the coolest of the cards.

flame696 · 23 Jun 2012 at 14:18

That fractal looks excellent very clean