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Old 06-14-2011, 11:02 PM
Rattlehead Rattlehead is offline
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Default What cases do you guys have?

Sorry, not a thread related to the game, but I'm just curious as to what cases (chassis) everyone is using and why you chose that particular case.
Any potential upgrades on the horizon? Any pictures of your rig?

At the moment I'm using the HAF 932, had it about a year now. I really wanted a Corsair Obsidian 800D but although an amazing case, I wanted to run an air-cooled setup and also the price (at the time) was about three times that of the 932. My previous case was the original CM Stacker, also by Cooler Master.

For air cooling the 932 is a great case, with oodles of space for cable management, additional drives, fans and can take the biggest cards and coolers on the market. Installing optical drives and disk drives is a snap.

My only two gripes are that although it's functionality is excellent, I'm not wild about it's looks. I prefer undrstated looks generally.
The other thing is that it's a dust magnet because of the large fans, and it has barely any dust filters, so it needs to be cleaned fairly regularly.

I generally keep my cases quite a while, but when I upgrade again I will probably look for anothe case by CM or maybe Corsair.
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Old 06-15-2011, 12:22 AM
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I can recommend the Raven 2. Heaps of fans, an unconventional design in that you turn a regular PC 90 degrees on it's head, so cool air is drawn from below and blown out the top. I bought this case mainly because I only do air cooling and needed a big enough case for my Crossfire set-up.

My only gripe - the hard drive bays; if you need to replace a hard drive, you need to dismantle the PC, pulling out the mother board out to gain access to the bays. I had to do this recently but looking at it positively it gave me the opportunity to do a major clean out of dust

If you go to LAN parties don't get this case, its very solid and heavy.

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?...ducts_id=16179

Edit: Having just looked again, I didn't realise the Raven 3 is out, it looks like they have improved the design.

http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?...ducts_id=17240

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Old 06-15-2011, 12:48 AM
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I prefer Lian Li cases.
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Old 06-15-2011, 05:09 AM
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Case?
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Old 06-15-2011, 06:12 AM
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http://www.alza.sk/thermaltake-vk600...ts-d120549.htm

this one. It is nowadays not at therlmaltake´s site, but there are other comparable cases. Big fans up and on the side, and 1 fan aft and front with possibility to install more. HDD rack can be mounted so that you can put hdds from the side. GTX 480 and noctua nh-D14 fits ok.
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Old 06-15-2011, 06:22 AM
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If you are happy with your 932, I suggest getting the improved HAF X.

I have that one, it's spacious and I could easily fit my Corsair H-70 liquid/air cooler It has filters making dust less problematic, and room for loads of fans.

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Old 06-15-2011, 11:39 AM
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Thermaltake - windowed tower case - 25 cm side fan - armor va8003bws - black
http://www.pc-look.com/boutik/Images...ml?language=en

This is my beast
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Old 06-15-2011, 11:54 AM
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Some of you may find this interesting, if you haven't seen it already.

http://www.azoft.com/spotlight/2011/...ter-cases.html
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Old 06-15-2011, 12:31 PM
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Some of you may find this interesting, if you haven't seen it already.

http://www.azoft.com/spotlight/2011/...ter-cases.html
Very interesting
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Old 06-15-2011, 12:46 PM
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Obsidian 800D
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