Yep its confirmed, a BLACK P150
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glitch said:
I had a P150 on approval and I sent it back due to the flimsy build-quality. It's made of the same aluminium as the Lanboy, which at least was meant to be light and get carried about. The P150 is a pretty expensive cheaply made case with a good PSU in it.
And it's really not THAT quiet. The cheaper Sonata is a better quiet case. If you want quality above all else, then buy a Lian-Li or a Silverstone, if you want space and a few extra features, then I like Akasa Eclipses. We build between 6 and 8 servers a month and unless expressly told otherwise, we put them in Eclipse 62's. They make swapping out motherboards VERY easy.
But my main rig lives in a Lian Li V1000B!
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Dunno about the Silent box but I got the Scythe Silent Hdd box and its a weird case..
I have a 300gigger SATA Seagate (the one with the quieter chipset) and I thought yeah its quiet but the seeking/writing hdd access noise just became irratable!
Placed in box and id say it took off about 60-70% of the noise the access noise went completly and so did the noise of the drive, if I take it out I cant go back to that state!
Negative thing though is its heated up badly to 60-65c which imo is hot although scythe say 65c max....
The only soloution I can think of is something I belive Asus had ? a backplate for a SATA connection for data/power on the back.... if I can put the drive in the open air it will cool down a bit better.
I have a 300gigger SATA Seagate (the one with the quieter chipset) and I thought yeah its quiet but the seeking/writing hdd access noise just became irratable!
Placed in box and id say it took off about 60-70% of the noise the access noise went completly and so did the noise of the drive, if I take it out I cant go back to that state!
Negative thing though is its heated up badly to 60-65c which imo is hot although scythe say 65c max....
The only soloution I can think of is something I belive Asus had ? a backplate for a SATA connection for data/power on the back.... if I can put the drive in the open air it will cool down a bit better.
WJA96 said:
The P150 is made of 95% of 1mm steel, with build quality and design up with the very best. Definitely superior to a Sonata. No way could you describe the build quality as ‘flimsy’. I don’t believe you evaluated a P150, I’d hazard a guess at a P160.
The main issues with the P150 are the NeoHE PSU, which have been a complete farce, with more not working, than working. http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=27863
Also the rubber hdd bands snapping.
As for people calling the P150 poor value for money, while at the same time being completely obsessed with expensive alu cases, I find very ironic. Particularly a certain brand of alu case, that died out pretty quickly because performance wise they were poor value for money.