Which Case?

PowerPie5000 · 29 May 2016 at 00:00

I fancy changing my case (currently a Raijintek Agos) and have pretty much narrowed it down to these options:

Phanteks Eclipse P400
Phanteks Enthoo Pro-M
NZXT Source 340
Corsair Carbide 400C

I intend on adding a couple of 140mm front intake fans to whichever case I get as my Zotac GTX 980 Ti AMP! is starting to get a bit toasty with the recent warm weather! Which in turn also affects the CPU temp too :rolleyes:

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I really like the look of the Eclipse P400 and the NZXT S340, but I feel the front panel might be a bit too restrictive for the the air intake fans. They only have a small gap/opening on the top and bottom of the front panels. Does anyone own one of these cases? What is the airflow like?

Which would you guys recommend? I'm not fussed about having a 5.25" optical bay.

Cheers :cool:

Rustyone · 29 May 2016 at 17:43

Best with the Enthoo Pro if you want airflow,

PowerPie5000 · 29 May 2016 at 23:08

Rustyone said:
Best with the Enthoo Pro if you want airflow,

I compromised as I have no use for the 5.25" bay., I decided to go with the NZXT S340 and bought a couple of extra 140mm Prolimatech fans for the front intake (no water cooling here) :cool:

PowerPie5000 · 31 May 2016 at 22:13

Received the case today and everything is installed (went smoothly as it's a pretty easy case to work with). It's not the quietest of cases though (sounds like a wind tunnel!). I'll need to try and quieten things down a bit without compromising temps too much. My Zotac 980 Ti (AMP! edition) has been getting pretty toasty recently and reaches around 80C when playing the Witcher 3. The GPU fans ramp up to around 78% at that temp and are not particularly quiet either

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The front 140mm intake fans are running at approx 1100rpm and I can hear the air being drawn through the top and bottom gaps in the front panel (like a constant wind/whoosh noise). The HDD led is also surprisingly dim compared to the power LED... Is this normal for this case?

Bigminimus · 5 Jun 2016 at 02:50

I've heard good things about enthoo pro. If you look around for reviews on the cases that might help. (can't mention external sites). It has really good airflow too.

ChugNorris · 5 Jun 2016 at 14:21

Pro M would have been better for airflow considering the card you have (got the same one)

PowerPie5000 · 5 Jun 2016 at 17:38

My GPU temps are getting a tad high and I think it could do with some fresh thermal paste... 84C with fans running at 90% isn't right. The case has 2 x 140mm intake fans, 1 x 120mm rear exhaust and 1x 120mm top exhaust.... More than my previous Raijintek Agos case. CPU temps are a few degrees lower at least