How do you feel about your PC Case?

[vincent.m]

i also have a themaltake Tsunami. although it looks amazing, the thing feels cheap as hell and sooo dusty inside under the front panel!

[staffsMike]

Yep the Eclipse is rubbish for noise stock. Not bad for suspending HDD's though. After that noise isn't too bad. Mine is screwed in for the time being and the clicking is very annoying.

P180 mini is the quietest case I've had when left stock.

[aidanjt]

Silverstone SG03, keeps a quaddy, and a 4780 cool, looks good, isn't too loud. On the other hand, the stabilisation bracket comes with flimsy screws, each time I unscrew it off, the head starts getting a little rounder all the time, and because they're bevel-seated screws, when the heads go, it'll be a hacksaw job to get to the components. Other quirks are the cramped cabling, I was just about able to route the SATA cables neatly, removal of the hdds requires removal of the annoying side bracket because getting to the cabling is a pita. But other than that, it's a fairly solid case. It could just do with a bit of tweakage.

[mehmeh]

Have a Thermaltake Lanbox Lite. So purdy, but a real PITA to work in or fit decent hardware into, wont take a decent HSF, had to cut it to peices to fit a decent graphics card, thing runs like a little oven most of the time and people make fun of me calling it a microwave. But I lurve it anyway!

Agree with you though, Vincent, TT cases don't exactly scream quality once you take the shiney bits off LOL!

[atrull]

mine has a button on it somewhere. I push is to turn the machine on.

[vincent.m]

mine has a button on it somewhere. I push is to turn the machine on.

you are also a troll...

[Mithrandir]

I have a windowed Coolermaster Cavalier 3, which I bought from Microdirect in Sept 2005 for £38. It's got a quality feel to it, however, the cooling is not the best as I feel it is unbalanced due to front 80mm and rear 120mm fan. I added a Scythe Kama bay to place on the front end with a Hiper fan and it made a difference to the CPU temps.

A couple of days ago I stripped the case base from the Opty146 and Asrock mobo as I started to fit in my C2D setup. I thought why not take out the front fan and replace it with a Silverstone FN82 (92mm fan in 80mm bracket) Not finished the setup yet but hopefully it'll be cooler in the case.


My other case is a Jeantech Gmax which I bought from PC World for £20. It's also a nice solid case and seems to be a bit better for cooling. However, I think the rear fan is noisy now (not sure if it's the case or other) might need to do some housekeeping soon.

[vincent.m]

Have a Thermaltake Lanbox Lite. So purdy, but a real PITA to work in or fit decent hardware into, wont take a decent HSF, had to cut it to peices to fit a decent graphics card, thing runs like a little oven most of the time and people make fun of me calling it a microwave. But I lurve it anyway!

Agree with you though, Vincent, TT cases don't exactly scream quality once you take the shiney bits off LOL!

i just googled it and haha it does indeed look like a microwave!!
with the side panel and everything lol

[Infinite]

i just googled it and haha it does indeed look like a microwave!!
with the side panel and everything lol

haha a quick google aswell, and it does, haha

I have a NZXT Blackline Lexa (cheapo version of the real Lexa) but it is pretty good though. It is a good general case, nothing I can really fault except the lack of cable management but i just ram it all into a empty drive space and you cant see them. Easy access and tool-less design for the hdd drives was a god send in the first few weeks when half of my hard drives failed, i would have died if i had to keep removing and screwing hdd to a cage. One thing though, it is heavy as hell.

[looney]

Bought an Antec 300 when it first came out and luckily it came out when I was planning to build a new rig. Before that I pondered on the Cm Centurion5 and the CM690, the centurion didnt quite do it for me, the CM690 was really nice but a tad expensive and it was abit big for what I was looking for. Then along came the Antec 300 excellent price and well within my budget of £40, looked great, i like sleek subtle looks, rather then the whole lights and fancy designs, excellent airflow, perfect size and very good quality, ticked all the boxes, only think that was rubbish was the cable management.

[k0nigen]

I've just rebuilt my machine into a P182 - it's awesome now
Cooler and quieter than the Eclipse! I'm feeling the need to take a photo...

[Sputnik]

I've got a Lian-Li V1000 which I bought immediately after they started production. Had a couple of problems with it, One being that the leads for the front panel were not long enough to reach the headers on the Mobo as its mounted upside down in this case but, Lian-Li sent me extension leads to sort the problem.
The only problem I have with it is the side panels rattle.

I also have a Verre V770 which is cheap and takky with LED light strips up the front.

[vincent.m]

I've just rebuilt my machine into a P182 - it's awesome now
Cooler and quieter than the Eclipse! I'm feeling the need to take a photo...

pic pic pic

[staffsMike]

Well if people are going to start posting P182's I feel the Eclipse needs a fighter in it's corner

[Pob255]

Well my current case was more of a fun project, I modded an old server case to fit atx
I'm sort of happy with it, I lack the experience, tools and work space to do a good profesional job.

I have my eye on the silverstone fortress FT01 but to me it's a heck of a lot of cash for a case.
I was toying with the idea of custom building a case from scratch but I doubt the resaults would be much good (again lacking tools and work space)

I did get a cheap £20 case to replace the cheap £20 case my otherhalf had. sounds odd but it was a better case and does look very nice from the outside.
Ebuyer still has it http://www.ebuyer.com/product/135584
However inside it's just like any other cheap case, thin metal and lots of sharp edges, but as I'm the only one who's had to dig around inside it I've only my self to blame for the plasters.

[TAKTAK]

Well if people are going to start posting P182's I feel the Eclipse needs a fighter in it's corner

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you just couldn't resist could you