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    Question A Case Of Mistaken Identity?

    I need a QUIET, WELL COOLED, BLACK, TOWER style ATX case, for UNDER £75, preferably with PSU, and Front USB ports, suitable for a Barton XP2500+ system running at Xp3200+ speeds. If you know of a case which COMFORTABLY matches all of the above requirement please let me know...
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    Black Cooler Master Centurion and a few pints down the local



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    Cheiftec Dragon and a packet of crisps down the local.

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    Antec Sonata with 380W TruePower PSU, but no pints or crisps down the local as you'll probably have to work there for a few hours to get the extra pennies for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big_Al
    Antec Sonata with 380W TruePower PSU, but no pints or crisps down the local as you'll probably have to work there for a few hours to get the extra pennies for it.
    But it's worth it! *Mentally strokes "piano black" finish, then wipes smear off case with Antec-supplied cloth*

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    *drool* I want one!

    Might be able to get one next month...

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    I'.m with Nico here.... Got me one of these Sonata beuaties myself for my server and it kicks ass

    Sideways drive mountings rock, especially for cable tidiness -




    Ignore the ones at the top, they have been tidied more but I took this pic after chucking everything in i.e. with NO tidying done by myself on purpose. I am talking more about the IDE and SATA cables from the MB

    I just need another 120mm fan for the front


    Edit - I also need another Maxtor 200GB Sata drive to fill the space above the other 3 LOL
    Last edited by Richie; 17-02-2004 at 07:48 PM.


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    You have a Zalman northbridge heatsink on your GPU? What card is it? How well does it cool it? No fans?


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    It is an MSI GF4 MX440.

    As standard it comes with a poxy 40mm fan basically stuck to the GPU chip with thermal compund and 2 spring mounted securing pins. It was too noisy for my "silent" server so I took it out and had a look.


    I bought the Zalman to replace the NB fan on my Abit IC7-G but the mounting points are totally diff



    Anyways, I had it lying around and tested it. Turned out that the Zalman fitted the Vid Card perfectly using the originial mounting points and the supplied "pins" that come with the Zalman.... Stuck some AS3 on it and hey presto.

    As its a server its not stressed much but my own personal feeling is that, if the stadnard card is cooled enough by a fan with NO heatsink then this huge thing will do just dandy

    I do lose 2 PCI slots tho LOL


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