The time has come to change my case as I plan to switch to water cooling in the next 6-12 months. My current case (Lian Li PC-75) which is not designed to house water cooling and the cable management is not great but it does have 8 HDD & 6 x 5.25 bays.
I've looked at so many reviews of cases in the last few weeks that I see cases when I close my eyes
So I decided its time to ask the knowledgeable members of OCN.
The requirements for the new case are: -
minimum of 8 x 3.5 HDD bays (ideally 10 or more)
minimum of 3 x 5.25 bays (ideally 4 or more)
able to fit a E-ATX or XL-ATX motherboard
great cable management
space for 360mm Rad & 240mm Rad without losing any bays
no wider than 30cm due to space limits
The cases I've looked at so far that I've short listed are: -
Aerocool Strike-X ST
BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Case
Corsair Obsidian 800D (6GB/s) Full Tower Case
NZXT Switch 810 Big Tower Case
All the ones I've looked at I have to compromise in one area or another.
I'm not worried what is looks like as it won't be for show and it doesn't need to have a window panel.
So the question is, what do you recommend?
Edited by Zeus - 8/7/12 at 4:05pm
I've looked at so many reviews of cases in the last few weeks that I see cases when I close my eyes
So I decided its time to ask the knowledgeable members of OCN.The requirements for the new case are: -
minimum of 8 x 3.5 HDD bays (ideally 10 or more)
minimum of 3 x 5.25 bays (ideally 4 or more)
able to fit a E-ATX or XL-ATX motherboard
great cable management
space for 360mm Rad & 240mm Rad without losing any bays
no wider than 30cm due to space limits
The cases I've looked at so far that I've short listed are: -
Aerocool Strike-X ST
BitFenix Shinobi XL Full Tower Gaming Case
Corsair Obsidian 800D (6GB/s) Full Tower Case
NZXT Switch 810 Big Tower Case
All the ones I've looked at I have to compromise in one area or another.
I'm not worried what is looks like as it won't be for show and it doesn't need to have a window panel.
So the question is, what do you recommend?
Edited by Zeus - 8/7/12 at 4:05pm
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| Other | Other | ||
| LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i | BlackMagic Design Intensity Pro | ||
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Gaming
(17 items) |
NAS
(14 items) |
Dell Inspiron N5010
(4 items) |
| CPU | Motherboard | RAM | Hard Drive |
|---|---|---|---|
| amd A4-5300 | ASRock FM2A75 Pro4-m | Corsair 16Gb (2x8GB) | Crusial M4 64GB (2 in RAID 1) |
| Hard Drive | Hard Drive | Optical Drive | Cooling |
| Seagate 500GB 2.5 (2 in RAID0) | Seagate 3TB ST3000DM001 (7 in RAID5 + 1 Hot Spare) | TSSTcorp DVDWBD | Noctua NH-L9a |
| Cooling | OS | Power | Case |
| Corsair SP120 Quiet x 4 | Windows 7 64bit | Silverstone Strider Plus 750W Modular | Aerocool Vs-9 Midi-Tower |
| Other | Other | ||
| LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i | BlackMagic Design Intensity Pro | ||
| View all | |||
| CPU | Graphics | RAM | Monitor |
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| Intel I5 M480 2.67GHz | Intel HD Graphics | 4GB | Windows 7 Pro x64 |
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