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absolutionsc
United States146 Posts
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CaiSter
United States29 Posts
On December 10 2010 11:17 D3ath3nat0r wrote: I would recommend cases with dust filters so it will last longer and protect your PC components so maybe the antec 1200? its likes $150 Antec 1200 is an awesome case I have the Antec 900, which is essentially a mid tower version of the Antec 1200, and my ambient temperatures does go past 40 C even when im on skype, itunes, sc2, xsplit, and firefox. I am not sure about the 1200, but the 900 comes with 4 case fans, one of which is a gigantic 200 mm intake fan. I am sure that the 1200 will come with more than 4 fans, since its a full tower rather than a mid-size tower. So, there should be plenty of circulation to keep everything cool. No need to even consider going liquid cooling even if you are overclocking Antec 900 Antec 1200 | ||
Womwomwom
5930 Posts
On December 10 2010 16:18 absolutionsc wrote: In terms of air cooling, one of the best cases available is the Silverstone FT02. I've got it, and it is pretty damn nice. Yeah. If you've got a fairly large budget (~$200) and you're going air cooling, nothing beats the Silverstone RV02 E/FT02, especially if they're got the new AP181s. Apparently only the black models have the new fans as standard because they sell far better than the silver version according to Silverstone anyway. Probably the quietest case for high end systems too since the airflow design is so efficient. Not quite a full tower case (its massive but doesn't support eATX) but its without a doubt the best air cooling case in every single way. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On December 10 2010 16:18 absolutionsc wrote: In terms of air cooling, one of the best cases available is the Silverstone FT02. I've got it, and it is pretty damn nice. This, in terms of good airflow that not only gets to your cards and cpu but also vents out of the case. Silverstone FT02 is great. It's also a great looking case with air filters etc. Silverstone Fortress and Raven both do great jobs in air flow, mostly because it sports alot of fans and they are right up next to the cards and cpu. Kyle Bennett from [H]ard|OPC really likes the cases for his 3 card set up which is nothing short but a beast. He has a Silverstone Raven RV02 http://hardocp.com/article/2010/09/30/my_quiet_galaxy_geforce_gtx_480_sli_build/ http://hardocp.com/article/2010/11/09/nvidia_geforce_gtx_580_video_card_review/8 + Show Spoiler [2x580's and a 260 all in one case] + ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/T500f.jpg) | ||
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MOOG
United States188 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/ERtpk.jpg) Unf. I'm fine with my Lian Li pc-v350b, but that raven is so sexy | ||
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KeiQQ
United States113 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119225&cm_re=haf_x-_-11-119-225-_-Product It's ridiculously good. | ||
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rXs
223 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163154&cm_re=silverstone_raven-_-11-163-154-_-Product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811163135&cm_re=silverstone_raven-_-11-163-135-_-Product 90 degree motherboards mounting. airflow goes in one direction and iirc, the gtx580 cooling system let's hot air release from behind, so it actually compliments with this case. | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
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onewingedmoogle
Canada434 Posts
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Winters
Spain53 Posts
Your choice. Ive got the Antec 1200 and its niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice. | ||
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QuothTheRaven
United States5524 Posts
![[image loading]](http://www.mountainmods.com/images/images_big/ASCENSIONDMBO.jpg) Enough room in that thing to fit pretty much anything (33 hard drives, 10 CD drives, and 4 power supplies, lol--plus a ton of room for massive water cooling radiators). Just about every aspect of it is easily moddable and customizable. ![[image loading]](http://www.mountainmods.com/images/images_big/ASCENSIONDMBO_pic1.jpg) Personally I find it gaudy, but a lot of people like them. And it's one of the very few cases out there that will fit an SR-2 (not that that matters for an i7 build). | ||
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Mofisto
United Kingdom585 Posts
On December 10 2010 12:33 eVaDe[Clean] wrote: The design is just flawed and the lone intake fan doesn't intake enough air. The whole chassis is also made of steel as apposed to the aluminum you see in most higher end cases. You can just google the name of the case/airflow problems and a lot of info will pop up. Basically if you try to only air cool and run two graphics cards your gonna get very high temps even if you add front and top intake and exhaust fans. A lot of people took out the stock intake fans and put in multiple high rpm fans and still got very high temps. The case just isn't ideal for air cooling. If your just building a basic system it probably isn't gonna overheat, but if your gonna build a high end system with more than 1 graphics card (especially nvidia graphics cards which run hotter than ati) then you shouldn't buy this case unless you are going to liquid cool everything. Well, this is the case i own. And to be honest i've had no problems with overheating whatsoever. Only modification i made was changing the default intake/outtake fans to high speed, high cfm fans. I also added fans to all availiable slots. I run a trifire system (4gb 5970 toxic @ 950 mhz, and 2gb 5870 toxic @950 mhz), an overclocked i7 960 (4.2 ghz) with coolermaster v8. Temps wise the graphic cards run at 25 (5970) - 30 c (5870) at idle, and under load the 5970 never goes above 48c and the 5870 stays just over 50. The cpu idles at 22 c, and under load goes to 38c -42c. This is a purly air cooled system, and as you can see the temps are far from anything you could term high. Clearly this case was designed for water cooling (masses of room for radiators, tubing grommets at the back of case etc), but i have had zero heat problems through air cooling | ||
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absolutionsc
United States146 Posts
On December 10 2010 17:51 onewingedmoogle wrote: what exactly is 90 degree motherboard mounting? i dont understand the difference between the raven case and any other tower All your cards are mounted vertically in the case, i.e. all the cords come out the top of the case. It sounds weird, but read a little bit about thermodynamics and you'll understand why it makes a lot of sense. | ||
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SpiffD
Denmark1264 Posts
Seems very similar to the Corsair case. Review: | ||
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writer22816
United States5775 Posts
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rbkl
772 Posts
Otherwise, Antec 900 Two | ||
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Fishball
Canada4788 Posts
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=554&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=138&g=f http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cases/2010/08/25/lian-li-v1020-v2120-preview/4 | ||
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vicariouscheese
United States589 Posts
http://www.nzxt.com/new/products/crafted_series/phantom I have no idea if it's good besides aesthetics though  | ||
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rXs
223 Posts
On December 10 2010 17:51 onewingedmoogle wrote: what exactly is 90 degree motherboard mounting? i dont understand the difference between the raven case and any other tower the back panel faces upward, so all the heat exits in one place. | ||
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piskooooo
United States351 Posts
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