Upgrading my case

Marshstyles

Marshstyles

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My old Coolermaster Stacker 830 is due an upgrade. I will be going SLI in the next week or so and my single 570 gets up to 83c in there on its own :(

My requirements are:

Cable management
Easy to clean dust filters
Easy access for hard drives
Lots of space for hard drives (5+)
Can fit multiple graphics cards in
Good cooling properties
USB 3.0 as well as 2.0 on the front

I was eyeing up the fractal define R4 but they seem to have disappeared

Budget - None really though I don't want to spend more that £180 unless its truly worth it.

Limitation - No taller that 700mm

Spec away :D
 
Seen a few threads on about which case to buy.
I would go for the Corsair Obsidian 800D
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-020-CS&tool=3

Had mine about a year now. Simply love it.
It is huge and will definatly take the biggest of graphics cards.
Lots of fans on it with lots of room for a tripple rad if your into water cooling. I have a H100 in mine,fits like a glove.
It has 4 hot swap bays at the front and these are brilliant.
On the OC spec it shows only 4 USB 2 ports on the front pannel but the latest cases come with 2 USB 2 ports and 2 USB 3 ports. These only have the male connectors,no board headers,as yet.
On that matter I did actually contact Corsair directly asking if there was a new front pannel in the works with USB 3 header connectors. I got a slightly snotty reply back but I recon there will be that upgrade soon.

I have a pic from the User Manual showing the dimensions etc.
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I would recomend anybody getting one. Maybe slightly over your budget but definatly worth it.
 
Just uploaded a couple more pics. Hopefully you can get an idea of the size\space. Cable management and cooling. All my fans are standard Corsair ones.

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Hope these help.

Take no notice of my poor old graphics card...;)
 
they stopped making mine a chieftec full server tower case (no numbers either but great wheels) when jesus wore nappies, weighs a ton and has bolts so if you take the wheels of you can bolt it to the floor, not that many could pick it up when full anyway, all steel and rather thick steel at that, good great twin side doors and locks better than my house.

would photo it, but as i said you can't buy it no more, but wouldn't change it for the world and its almost 8 years old now, had more builds inside it than i have hairs left on my head.

corsair do make some good case though, would be my choice also for a upgrade
 
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