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I have CoolerMaster Storm Scout atm. Good case, I'm reasonably happy with it but its not particularly suitable for water cooling, it seems. The top 140 mm slot is only 30mm from RAM slots and CPU fan header and the rear exhaust 120 mm is only 50 mm from 8 pin CPU power connector on my motherboard. Only spot where dual 120mm rad would go without modding is a side-panel and thats not particularly comfortable spot if I want to open the case from time to time or have large GFX cards. So as it stands I could do a 120x25 mm rad with 25 mm fan or a 120x38 mm rad with 12 mm fan plus 140x25 rad without fan (or if it exists a 140x20mm + 12mm fan).

So I'm looking around for portable cases with space for dual 120mm rad, preferably two of these. But for a start I'm listing all the portable cases I'm aware of and asking if I'm missing any ? I know that there exist carrying harness for cases but if possible I would prefer handle. I carry mine around daily and messing with harness would be somewhat hassle it seems to me.

If you know some case with handle or carrying strap please point it out to me smile.gif

The ones I'm aware of are:

Full tower
CM Cosmos II - http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6792
CM Cosmos S - http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=3947
CM Cosmos 1000 - http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2584
CM Cosmos PURE - http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6600
CM Storm Trooper - http://www.cmstorm.com/en/products/chassis/Trooper/

Mid tower
CM Ammo 533 - http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=5
CM Storm Scout - http://www.cmstorm.com/en/products/chassis/scout/
Antec - LanBoy - http://www.antec.com/Believe_it/product.php?id=NzA0NDUzJjE=
AeroCool RS-4 - http://www.aerocool.com.tw/index.php/products/chassis/31-pgsr/113-rs4
Corsair C70 - http://www.corsair.com/vengeance-c70-mid-tower-gaming-case-military-green.html

Small
Thermaltake LanBOX - http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1200&ID=1428#Tab2
Silverstone SFF - http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=234&area=en
NZXT Vulcan - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811146065

Edit: Apparently after taking a closer look a Antec Lanboy does not have handle, although considering the flexibility of the case adding a piece of rope to the case for dragging it around should be easy enough. I'll leave it into the list for now, just cross it through.
Edited by Carniflex - 5/10/13 at 10:53am
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i am pretty sure the trooper will be bawss for this, i will be getting it in a few weeks so pm if you need a full review
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Carniflex View Post

....I carry mine around daily and messing with harness would be somewhat hassle it seems to me.
If you know some case with handle or carrying strap please point it out to me smile.gif

I recommend Lian Li Tu-200. One is on display in a local store and I inspect it and find it to be very sturdy and well constructed for traveling. Obviously you will have to downsize your motherboard to Mini-ITX and you can only use one beefy graphics card.

600

Product link
http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=585&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=64&g=f


3 other cases with handle:-
1) BitFenix Survivor
http://www.bitfenix.com/global/en/products/chassis/survivor/

2) NZXT Vulcan
http://www.nzxt.com/new/products/crafted_series/vulcan

3) Thermaltake Level 10
Edited by windfire - 4/9/12 at 1:08am
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I recommend ...

Thanx. That is just the kind of answer I was looking. Several more good cases to investigate smile.gif
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Mountainmods - http://www.mountainmods.com/h2go-cyo-p-561.html

Expensive but quite interesting. They also sell handles for the computer cases.
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I myself was looking for a portable pc but at the moment dont have money to scale down to Mini-ITX so will be transporting my current rig to Bitfenix survivor and changing PSU to Corsair AX 850 and adding either 6950/70/90 depends on the amount of money i can scramble together >_>
I probably will Change the parts around 2013 summer to Mini ITX and get myself GTX 780, prolly Ivy i5 3570K or Haswell i5 if its out by that time.

But the point I am making is go for Bitfenix Survivor, IMHO best case with a handle that does not need modding to be superb. Unless you really need a side window ( which i am going to add). I did my fare share of research on cases with handles and this one comes out on the top no matter what.
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I myself was looking for a portable pc but at the moment dont have money to scale down to Mini-ITX so will be transporting my current rig to Bitfenix survivor and changing PSU to Corsair AX 850 and adding either 6950/70/90 depends on the amount of money i can scramble together >_>
I probably will Change the parts around 2013 summer to Mini ITX and get myself GTX 780, prolly Ivy i5 3570K or Haswell i5 if its out by that time.
But the point I am making is go for Bitfenix Survivor, IMHO best case with a handle that does not need modding to be superb. Unless you really need a side window ( which i am going to add). I did my fare share of research on cases with handles and this one comes out on the top no matter what.

Yeah its a solid case if you dont have to mess around inside daily (as its a bit hard to open). I'm more a man of bang-for-buck and functionality than looks, but having a good looking case, everything else being equal is ofc bonus. The smallest I would be able to get away with is mATX though - as I need all the RAM I can get for the stuff I do and ITX is usually a bit limited as far as available RAM slots go. The case has even water-cooling holes so it might be possible to bolt few rads on externally if internal space is not enough. Although the top 200 mm fan location seems ideal for rad. A 200x200 mm rad is 40 000 mm2 which is almost the same as tripe120 mm (43 200 mm2).

For my purposes Storm Trooper seems to be best fitting if I dont want to mod anything although it adds extra 5 kg to carry around over my current setup. On the other hand I'm seriously considering just getting a 10 euro white box case and do some cutting plus bolting an handle on top. I think I might get away with mounting two dual 200mm rads on one side of the case which is large enough surface area to be really quiet (either passive or very low rpm 200 mm fans) but I'm still thinking about it - I'm not particularly skilled as far as doing stuff with my hands goes wink.gif so going with something that does not need modding would be probably both cheaper and also safer. As just flat out putting bare rads on the side of a case I carry around daily might be pretty expensive unless I come up with some good plan how to protect the rads from bumping around my car trunk when I drive over the railroad or something like that. And it probably would look like steampunk gone wrong wink.gif

The second option I'm considering is getting HPTX motherboard tray from mountain mods and building my own case around it (or getting the 24x24'' case from mountiain mods and seeing about getting the handle added on top) but first one is a lot of work and second one would get pretty damn expensive(although the mountain mods cases look awesome for portability as they are aluminium and such very light when compared to CM scout or trooper). The HPTX motherboard tray looks pretty attractive as it can take anything from mATX, ATX, E-ATX, XL-ATX (and probably also SSI CEB and EEB) to the massive 13.6''x15'' HPTX size.
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Buy a 650D and drill 4 holes (2 in top front, 2 in top back) and mount two handles in it thumb.gif
http://www.mnpctech.com/MnpctechBillethandleGrooved.html
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Noticed another mid tower with handle from thermaltake
Thermaltake V5 http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/product.aspx?c=1390&id=1947
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