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Here's my Cooltek W2 case, sometime I am going to get another glass side panel cut, that you can see through. I think I am going to change my cpu fan to match the case fan to make it a bit tidier, but its a tad pointless at the moment as I can barely see my hardware through the glass window.

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I don't understand heavily tinted side panel windows. A light tint is fine, but you're defeating the purpose of spending an extra €50 if you can't clearly see the internals from the outside.

How have you found temperatures so far? I'm strongly considering the W2 for my next build, but I'm cautious about temperatures as the case doesn't appear to have amazing airflow, and you can't use tall heatsinks with 140mm circular fans.
 
AngryGoldfish said:
I don't understand heavily tinted side panel windows. A light tint is fine, but you're defeating the purpose of spending an extra €50 if you can't clearly see the internals from the outside.

How have you found temperatures so far? I'm strongly considering the W2 for my next build, but I'm cautious about temperatures as the case doesn't appear to have amazing airflow, and you can't use tall heatsinks with 140mm circular fans.
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Well the temps are not great out of the box, but I realised after I had spent £40 on fans, the rear fan grill was stopping a hell of a lot of heat from escaping out of the case. After I changed the grill for the normal circular wired grill, my temps shot down by 10c+

My gpu temps are now in the high 60s low 70s while gaming and in the mid 80s running furmark, but I have changed all the case fans. From changing the fans, yeah its lowered the temps, but it has made a fair bit of air nose from the front panel, but I have sorted that out with a heavy soft car cleaning cloth down the front panel and it hasn't seem to of effected the temps at all:cool:

Im guessing If I had kept the stock fans and just changed the rear fan grill, the temps would probably be more of less as they are now, maybe a few c warmer.. but my temps now are only 2c warmer then my factual define r3 case with the fan grill change and the new fans. So I am really happy with the temps now as I never thought the temps would be roughly the same as my old case. Also the case is real quiet with the car cloth idea, hehe

But yeah,, the glass panel is a tad pointless, but at least its all glass so getting another one cut with 4 screw holes in it, will be quite easy Id thought and all of the W2 cases comes with glass side panels now.
 
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Phil2008 said:
Well the temps are not great out of the box, but I realised after I had spent £40 on fans, the rear fan grill was stopping a hell of a lot of heat from escaping out of the case. After I changed the grill for the normal circular wired grill, my temps shot down by 10c+

My gpu temps are now in the high 60s low 70s while gaming and in the mid 80s running furmark, but I have changed all the case fans. From changing the fans, yeah its lowered the temps, but it has made a fair bit of air nose from the front panel, but I have sorted that out with a heavy soft car cleaning cloth down the front panel and it hasn't seem to of effected the temps at all:cool:

Im guessing If I had kept the stock fans and just changed the rear fan grill, the temps would probably be more of less as they are now, maybe a few c warmer.. but my temps now are only 2c warmer then my factual define r3 case with the fan grill change and the new fans. So I am really happy with the temps now as I never thought the temps would be roughly the same as my old case. Also the case is real quiet with the car cloth idea, hehe

But yeah,, the glass panel is a tad pointless, but at least its all glass so getting another one cut with 4 screw holes in it, will be quite easy Id thought and all of the W2 cases comes with glass side panels now.
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Yeah, one of the reasons why I'm considering the W2 is for its silent aspects (4mm thick aluminium, no vents). I was contemplating installing foam or some other noise dampening material in strategic points, if it needed it.

So I take it the rear fan grill is removable with screws?

I don't know if I'd bother with the glass panel. A think piece of aluminium would dampen the noise more than glass, I'd imagine. I could be wrong though. I'd like to see the internals and I intend to build it clean and colour coded with custom cables, but I'd rather put the extra money into better fans than a glass window.

Thanks for the reply!
 
Yeah the grill just unscrews,, and you can get a windowed or a non windowed version. But just remember all windowed ones are glass now, unless your unlucky enough not to get this years case.

But think if you want a non windowed or windowed because my glass version uses thumb screws, but the perspex and non windowed panels just clip on.

edit : Also the W2 case is the smallest case you can buy that takes a ATX motherboard and a long gpu.
 
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Phil2008 said:
Yeah the grill just unscrews,, and you can get a windowed or a non windowed version. But just remember all windowed ones are glass now, unless your unlucky enough not to get this years case.

But think if you want a non windowed or windowed because my glass version uses thumb screws, but the perspex and non windowed panels just clip on.

edit : Also the W2 case is the smallest case you can buy that takes a ATX motherboard and a long gpu.
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My only real problem is finding a CPU heatsink that I like the look of that will fit. If the case was just 5mm wide, it would fit a Cryorig R1 Ultimate. The Noctua NH-D15S would be perfect as it's only 160mm tall if the fans were just black.
 
hey phil you might want to check the glass panel to make sure there isnt a film over it... im pretty sure its not meant to be that dark!
 
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hey phil you might want to check the glass panel to make sure there isnt a film over it... im pretty sure its not meant to be that dark!
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There's no protective film on the glass, as I am cleaning it often at the moment, That the best thing about glass, glass wont scratch. The perspex version is nice and see through, I would have thought the glass version would be the same.. The only way to look at my hardware through the glass is with a torch... But to be honest the dark glass looks nice with the silver.

What would solve the problem is to have lights in the case, but its in my bedroom and its on quite often when Im sleeping and lights would drive me mad.

AngryGoldfish - The panels on the case are only 1-2mm thick and I wouldn't say its a silent case by any means, as all metal cases kind of amplify the air noise. The only panel that's thick is the glass as its about 3-4mm thick.

I bought the Areocool Dead Silent fans as these were the best I could find for airflow and noise level. with 2 fans on full speed and 1 on low, this was about the best setup I could get for decent temps and quietish noise levels, I think its still a tad louder then my R3 case and the fans weren't as good as the Aerocool fans.
 
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Reason i mentioned that was because on the websites that sell these.. this is what the tempered glass version looks like - not nearly as dark as yours!

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AngryGoldfish - The panels on the case are only 1-2mm thick and I wouldn't say its a silent case by any means, as all metal cases kind of amplify the air noise. The only panel that's thick is the glass as its about 3-4mm thick.

I bought the Areocool Dead Silent fans as these were the best I could find for airflow and noise level. with 2 fans on full speed and 1 on low, this was about the best setup I could get for decent temps and quietish noise levels, I think its still a tad louder then my R3 case and the fans weren't as good as the Aerocool fans.
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I may end up having to drop the W2 as an option as the GPU I'm looking at won't fit with a fan installed. I really don't want to remove the fan as it would take away from the symmetry and maybe reduce cooling efficiency. If the W2 was just 10mm wider and deeper it would be the perfect case. You could then fit whatever CPU cooler you wanted and virtually all GPU's.

I thought I remember reading that Cooltek use 4mm thick aluminium. Maybe that was with another case from the Jonsbo range.
 
Well my gpu is 29cm long and id say there's a good 2 - 3cm more if needed before hitting the fan. The gpu in my Fractal Define R3 case was about 0.5cm from hitting the hdd cage

The side panels on the W2 are nowhere 4mm thick, Id say a case with the panels that thick would cost a lot more then just over the 100 mark
 
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Well my gpu is 29cm long and id say there's a good 2 - 3cm more if needed before hitting the fan. The gpu in my Fractal Define R3 case was about 0.5cm from hitting the hdd cage

The side panels on the W2 are nowhere 4mm thick, Id say a case with the panels that thick would cost a lot more then just over the 100 mark
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The website says 295mm is the max if you have a fan installed. The GPU I'll be looking at are 3-fan designs like the ASUS Strix, and they are 298mm long. The Gigabyte G1 Gaming would just about fit, but the orange accents complicate things.
 
My gpu is 28.575cms long and if you look at my pics of the W2 case, that's how much clearance is left, there must be about a inch left. It will fit a 298mm card easy, with room to spare mate. I think reviews said the case can take a 32cm long gpu.

Its like with the specs of my old case, it says.... "Supports graphic card lengths up to circa 290mm", my gpu fitted easy and theres about 1-2cm to spare.

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My gpu is 28.575cms long and if you look at my pics of the W2 case, that's how much clearance is left, there must be about a inch left. It will fit a 298mm card easy, with room to spare mate. I think reviews said the case can take a 32cm long gpu.

Its like with the specs of my old case, it says.... "Supports graphic card lengths up to circa 290mm", my gpu fitted easy and theres about 1-2cm to spare.

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I'll have a look through the reviews and see what everyone else says. If you're right, awesome.
 
Thats one of the things I like about this case, it should be able the accommodate most gpu's that I throw at it, without me worrying, will it or wont it fit.
 
Phil2008 said:
Thats one of the things I like about this case, it should be able the accommodate most gpu's that I throw at it, without me worrying, will it or wont it fit.
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All the reviews I've read so far just keep quoting the website specifications. I haven't found anyone who has tested GPU's thoroughly yet. I'll keep looking. While I'd love the W2, the limited options I have for CPU coolers also makes it troublesome.
 
Tupro said:
@angrygoldfish

not sure if it helps or not but there is slim fans out there that would help give extra space even if only by a small amount.. maybe worth looking into

heres on as an example https://www.quietpc.com/slipstream-120-slim-2000
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Hmmm, yeah, I've been considering 15mm fans. Really, I just wish MSI didn't have to make their Gaming GPU's red, or if EVGA made AMD GPU's. EVGA and MSI are the two major manufacturers that still use dual fan designs on flagship high-end GPU's, but MSI insists on red and EVGA don't deal with AMD. Neither do Palit, and they make a good dual fan cooler. Sapphire make the 480 Nitro currently, but that isn't powerful enough. I'm waiting for Vega, but I imagine they'll install their 3-fan design on those kind of big chips.
 
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