I'm in the market for a new case - I've had a QuietPC somethingorother (one of their midi-towers with AcoustiPack insulation) for the last few years and although I've been perfectly happy with it, I need something "a bit more" now as I've noticed that due to an upgrade to the bits within, the inside is getting somewhat warm - mid-to-high 40s for instance when the CPU and GPU are given a work out. Full-load [stock settings] temps for the CPU (E6600) are 53-55C and the 4870, full load, gets to about 95C.
What I'm after is primarily silence with cooling capability a close second - in a large-ish case. Something like the Coolermaster Cosmos, Silverstone Fortress, Zalman GS1000, etc. I'm not even considering any silly looking cases that looks like it's just fallen off the pages of Max Power (and that includes those with fans on the side that wouldn't look out of place in a windfarm).
The large-ish requirement is just simply to get a bit of space as things are a bit cramped at the minute.
Anyone recommend one or t'other - or even a completely different one. I did have an eye on that Coolermaster ATCS840 job (I know, it's huge and perhaps a bit OTT but that's not the point) but I am not paying £240 for a case. £150 is bad enough but that seems to be the typical price for such things these days.
If it helps, what will be going in it will be:
Gigabyte P35-DS4 (the first "v1.0" one with the huge heatpipes/heatsinks structure)
Core 2 Duo E6600 (cooler is a Noctua NH-U12 with a Noctua fan)
2GB Corsair 800MHz/CAS5 RAM
1GB HD4870 @ stock (still has the Sapphire cooler but I'm not averse to changing it)
Two DVD drives
At least four HDDs- but space for as many as possible is good as I have a great knack of often taking 20-30GB of photos at a time.
Don't care about external 3.5" bays.
Cheers


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