Akasa Eclipse 62 or Antec 900

[Thorsson]

Originally Posted by doddsy

If you're referring to the review I was looking at you do know that it isn't the cpu temp, it's the temperature around the cpu area. Unless I'm gravely mistaken I doubt you have a thermal probe and are checking that way.

From the review: "Temperatures were measured using a simple digital thermometer with external probe on a 1 metre trailing line".

Really, if you can't get that right then you'd be better to not post at all.

I get a lower temperature for the HD cage, and my ambient is 21 compared to the reviewer's 17-19.

I know the reviewer though the cooling was good, and it is compared to the three cases he chose to compare against; they weren't exactly the toughest test though.

[DecomposingStar]

Originally Posted by Thorsson

From the review: "Temperatures were measured using a simple digital thermometer with external probe on a 1 metre trailing line".

Really, if you can't get that right then you'd be better to not post at all.

I get a lower temperature for the HD cage, and my ambient is 21 compared to the reviewer's 17-19.

I know the reviewer though the cooling was good, and it is compared to the three cases he chose to compare against; they weren't exactly the toughest test though.

Chill out...


What case are we on about here?

[amjedm]

If you guys are talking about the cooling in the Akasa Eclipse - it did pretty well in the CustomPC thermal test.

Anybody remember that thermal test?

[DecomposingStar]

Nah i've only been reading custom PC for the past 2 months I think.

I ordered an Antec 900 by the way.

[doddsy]

Originally Posted by Thorsson

From the review: "Temperatures were measured using a simple digital thermometer with external probe on a 1 metre trailing line".

Really, if you can't get that right then you'd be better to not post at all.

Are you telling me not to post because I wrote thermal probe and not 'simple digital thermometer with external probe on a 1 metre trailing line'? If so then I apologise for my terrible technical faux pas. The simple fact I was making is that I doubted that you'd actually checked the temperature around your cpu to compare.

Really, if you can't grasp that I have an akasa eclipse and it does have good cooling performance, maybe you shouldn't post.

[Thorsson]

Originally Posted by doddsy

Are you telling me not to post because I wrote thermal probe and not 'simple digital thermometer with external probe on a 1 metre trailing line'? If so then I apologise for my terrible technical faux pas. The simple fact I was making is that I doubted that you'd actually checked the temperature around your cpu to compare.

Well a thermal probe is quite different from a 'simple digital thermometer with external probe on a 1 metre trailing line'. Perhaps you are not aware of that.

And perhaps you shouldn't measure others by your own standards. I wouldn't have posted if I hadn't checked the temperatures.

Now why don't you just quit while you're behind.

[DecomposingStar]

Shut up you blithering morons.
This is a totally ridiculous arguement over stupid crap.
Thread=Dead

[doddsy]

Originally Posted by Thorsson

Well a thermal probe is quite different from a 'simple digital thermometer with external probe on a 1 metre trailing line'. Perhaps you are not aware of that.

No to be honest I wasn't, I'll quite happily admit this isn't my area of expertise. I was just under the impression that, simplistically, a thermometer with a probe was a thermal probe. I don't really see there is a huge difference.

Originally Posted by Thorsson

And perhaps you shouldn't measure others by your own standards. I wouldn't have posted if I hadn't checked the temperatures.

Well I never knew that you'd measured the temperatures, I had just assumed that you had thought cpu area temp was the cpu temp. I also just had a looked back over this thread and I never worded a few of my posts the way they were meant, that's the problem with forums you don't 'get' the context. I apologise for both those points.

[DecomposingStar]

Originally Posted by doddsy

Well I never knew that you'd measured the temperatures, I had just assumed that you had thought cpu area temp was the cpu temp. I also just had a looked back over this thread and I never worded a few of my posts the way they were meant, that's the problem with forums you don't 'get' the context. I apologise for both those points.

there you go, an apologie, forgive and forget.

[d032sh]

I just got my Eclipse 62 and it's made me happy.

[aidanjt]

^^ see, another happy Eclipse user. I haven't seen one complain yet.

[sawyen]

Now this I don't get.. why is everyone getting so heated up about this?

Eclipse or 900, its still a box where u shove things in and make it quiet and all, one might be better than the other, and mostly based on individual taste and test conditions.

There's no need to belittle the latter just because you particularly liked one of them..

For a minute I was worried that it'll come off like one of those 6 year old PS3 versus xbox360 rant.. phew..

C'mon fellas, its just a PC case..

-- and the bit about the thermal probe.. its really just nit-picking --

Chill ppl..

[amjedm]

Originally Posted by sawyen

Now this I don't get.. why is everyone getting so heated up about this?

Eclipse or 900, its still a box where u shove things in and make it quiet and all, one might be better than the other, and mostly based on individual taste and test conditions.

There's no need to belittle the latter just because you particularly liked one of them..

For a minute I was worried that it'll come off like one of those 6 year old PS3 versus xbox360 rant.. phew..

C'mon fellas, its just a PC case..

-- and the bit about the thermal probe.. its really just nit-picking --

Chill ppl..

Good point. I'll second that.

[DecomposingStar]

Originally Posted by amjedm

Good point. I'll second that.

Third

[doddsy]

I'll fourth it!