New case, maximum airflow

[Seany1212]

im after a new case, as small a budget as possible, im after a full sized case with triple 120mm fans at the rear but can cope with dual as i want to make way for water cooling, so anyone any suggestions?

 

[Chewy]

check out some gigabyte cases good price to quality ratio.
http://www.us.ncix.com/products/ind...&manufacture=Gigabyte&nocookie=1&membership=0
honestly review this case and some of thier others... its nice stuff.

This case will last you forever+ 100 years, the doors are the best on the market.
It comes with the option of a window or mesh for the side aswell.

 

[Seany1212]

great case, now, just for the price , may have to buy this, thanks chewy

 

[Chewy]

yeah man, but once you really look into it you'll fall in love
Its not a bad price for what your gettign when I was looking at it, thoguh it could be a little longer maybe... I know the newer model of it is a little shorter but its 10% longer.

check out those reviews at the bottom.

 

[Seany1212]

holy crap £92, lol i meant fairly small budget, like £40-50 anything in red as i have a red powersupply with red leds and it'll look out of place with blue ones?

 

[Chewy]

I dont think the red would bother it to much kinda hidden.. check out thier newer version of this case,
3D Aurora 570 it might be a little cheaper, if you can find one I cant yet.

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Chassis/Default.aspx

 

[Seany1212]

£120

 

[Chewy]

=-( well I'm currently looking at this one... but the psu is like built into it
http://hi-techreviews.com/nuke/silentium/silentium_page3.htm
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=14892&vpn=SILENTIUM-T1&manufacture=Arctic Cooling
I dont think you would like this one... since you cant put your own psu in it but the cooling proformance looks real good.

you can try and find this one here aswell, but its price here is almost the same as the gigabyte... http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=21007&vpn=NZXT-ZERO&manufacture=NZXT

 

[Seany1212]

£57, going to buy that one , cheers chewy

 

[Chewy]

humm the first one I said I think would be your best choice... but @92 pounds... otherwise your going to have to go for some cheaper full tower cases I think, unless someone knows of a good full tower case for a good price.

You could concider the Amour Jr by Thurmaltake, its ready for a water set up
I should sleep g nite

EDIT: check to see if you can put your own psu in it.

 

[Grings]

i read in a custompc (uk magazine) that the gigabytes have a hotspot in the case where heat cant escape, and that the drive bays block most of the airflow from the front fan (they used some thermal imaging camera thing) http://www.custompc.co.uk/custompc/labs/86394/gigabyte-3d-aurora.html

 

[Chewy]

truetrue.. I think I will have the same problem with the front fan in my Lexa case.

I read somewhere of someone fixing thier case to get better airflow from the front on a gigabyte/somecompany they copied from, he said he dident remove the hd cage, but he dident specify on what he did to make it work right.

You can add a fan to the inside of the gigabyte case though to help air circulation, but your right.

 

[Carcenomy]

I'd trust that review about as far as I could throw it, and being information on a server it's not very throwable.

The first review they give claims its a fantastic case, then it's instantly a heap of crap because the next guy says so?

Even if it IS as bad as they claim it's nothing a little creativity and an anglegrinder can't fix. Are you really going to fill the entire drive rack? If not, cut holes in the spare space between drives to allow air through.

Because at the end of the day, a modern case isn't about function whatsoever - ever noticed the trend toward just thrusting as many fans as possible into a chassis without taking airflow into account? Cases riddled with holes (can you say mesh sidepanel) that lower air velocity? It's about the bling, not the function. But if it's about the function it's not that hard to make it even more functional.

 

[Grings]

in the actual magazine review they used a thermal imaging camera, heres the gigabyte http://img.techpowerup.org/061122/thermal img 006.jpg

and heres a(blurry) akasa eclipse62 for comparison
http://img.techpowerup.org/061122/thermal img 003.jpg

now while its a nice case and i would consider it myself (i have a twin 80mm fan power supply, which would stop that heat build up at the top) and i wouldnt mind modding the drive bays for better airflow, i merely thought id point out the problems people may face with the case in its standard layout, as many people dont want to chop up a brand new case!

 

[psychotix11]

Though they are out of your price range lian-li and silver stone make crazy cases for air flow.

This came out from antec and is very good for air flow http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811129021