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    Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply yet

    Here is an email i sent out of desperation. Followers of my other threads know the outcome. It gets a little poetic around a third in.

    Dear Cooler Master,

    I am incredibly interested and excited in one of your latest products! That is the Cooler Master Advanced Elite 120. However there is one major and significant problem. I know you must be working, so take a break for 3 mins and place your mind at ease.

    Here is some of my backstory. I have been interested in tech, computer and gadgets since as long as I can remember and I am now 28. I built my first computer when I was around 16 and have built several ever since. I’ve built them for friends and family and given tonnes of advice on products to get. For some reason, whenever I build a computer I have always used one of your products in each of them. From the hard core computer cases for flatmates at university or the excellent CPU fans which I have always advocated (having bought and used 2 myself).

    Now my inner geek has long been unfed and starved of nutrition. I am very frugal with my money especially since I’m far from being rich and my last computer was a laptop. But it was the cheaper option and served its purpose. That was 4 years ago and has been mine and my wife’s sole household computer. And it’s slow, even after a re-install it is creaking. So finally my wife (who is clearly the boss) got sick of sharing and of its snail like speed. She put her foot down and hoisted her flag and declared that she wanted me to get a desktop. Yes, a desktop! You hear that? That’s the sound of my inner geek stirring ready for the next meal. She had one requirement; she wanted me to spend as little as possible. Fine, folded arms, challenge accepted!

    Don’t get me wrong I still follow all the tech sites and tech news such as the always trusty Toms Hardware and in the last few years Anandtech for that incredible depth. Useful for advice giving to friends and workmates. But it only increased my deep seated yearning.

    However I had a strict budget of as little as possible. Not great right? Especially for a full blown geek like me. But hey, it’s a challenge for me to get what I could. I wanted 3 things, excellent balanced performance, high efficiency/low power usage, and as quiet as possible. I’m always on the cutting edge. I foresaw and experimented with overclocking before most, I then moved on to the silent pc wave 2 years before everyone else and then moved on to the high efficiency low energy usage computers again before everyone else (I would like to say that it’s to save the world, but really it’s to save money and have a quieter PC). My next aim with the next computer is to undervolt and underclock, yeah don’t worry, I’m sure in a years time that will be the new fad. Don’t call me a hipster though!!! I don’t own an apple product but do think they are great.

    Anyway, around 2 weeks ago I just managed to search all the parts including a good monitor and SSD for around £525. Inner geek half satisfied. But wife said it’s too much. Now this is understandable, we have our first kid on the way in October and she wouldn’t be working on her maternity leave so we would have less income and a baby to feed. My heart sunk, but she said go lower.

    But, I needed to bounce back. I needed to use all my expertise and years of knowledge. I needed to get my geek on and no power in the verse could stop me getting my shiny goal! Back to the drawing board with a new found passion. No SSD, check. Lower performance processor, check. Cheaper case and power supply. Check. I managed to strip and replace the products while keeping with my mantra of balance, efficiency and low noise. I sat back and marvelled at the effort. £450. She will be pleased!

    So I approached after the completion of this task with a smile on my face. £450 I said! She said lower again and my heart sank to a new low in this process. There wasn’t much room for manoeuvre anymore. This computer was cheaper than you could find anywhere in the UK. I knew if I was to get this computer I would be spending upwards of another £200 if I bought it as a package. I was defeated, run down. I had lost hope. And you simply don’t want to mess with a pregnant woman.

    But there was a glimmer of hope. My wife had promised me a present when I passed my accountancy exams, which I had been studying for a little over 3 years and I passed my last ones in December. But nope didn’t get one then (I wanted an Android tablet, but me being frugal, couldn’t justify the one I wanted for £500). And now I became a fully qualified accountant 3 weeks ago. Now we have discussed this and I said I would love a tablet and my next thing on the tick list would be to have 4 McDonalds fillet’o’fishes in one go. Yes, it’s freaking weird but that juicy tender fish with that sauce is amazing. I haven’t yet done that yet, but it’s always on my mind. Surely someone else has this addiction???

    Anyway, she turned round in the weekend just gone by, while I was on the slow laptop and said, you know what, I always promised you a present when you passed you’re exams. Just go and get the computer you want. I was excited, but knowing her, I asked her what my budget was.. She replied with £800 as a figure. Wow, that’s far too much I said (maybe that was stupid, I don’t know). She then said £600. Perfect. I could up everything to essentially my dream machine fulfilling every point on my personal mantra. The heavens opened, rainbows appeared and the stars shimmered with the glow of a million years.

    So for the last few days I have been tirelessly trying to fit in the new hunt for components and with the new found freedom to finally design that elusive perfection. I wanted to go smaller. Not just micro ATX small but mini-itx tiny. But this caused even more problems! I found the motherboard I wanted but the case! The case became the most troublesome thing in all of this intrepid journey. I searched high and low but every case had a compromise too far. The Antec ISK 310 was good, but was difficult to build what I wanted, I had to buy a slim optical drive and I could not find any information on the power supply, so how could I know if it was efficient!?! I The Thermaltake Element Q. lovely, but no info on the powersupply and no option for even one case fan. I then found the Silverstone SUGO, bigger, yes but allowed for a bit more room. I thought I’d found it, the it that I had been looking for. It is a very nice case and the power supply is decent. But lo and behold slim optical drive and no usb 3. SOOOO close! But I was tired, weary from the journey, I was about to succumb. The Silverstone’s call was too great. Like in Jason and the Argonauts where they pass the island where the sirens sing their beautiful alluring song and they can’t resist. It was a little expensive and might put me over budget, so I would cut down on a few other things.

    However something happened. On my final search I came across a case by yourselves. The CoolerMaster Advance Elite 120. The holy grail. The beacon of light. The bastion of all that is good! It had everything I wanted. It seemed like the case was to me like Orpheus was to Jason. It would sing more beautifully than the Silverstone ever could. Normal sized power supply, full sized optical drive, space for 2 hardrives inside, USB 3 on the front. I would have thought this to be perfect until I read that it also came with 2 fans already in the case! No doubt 2 awesome Cooler Master fans, a new style of perfection indeed! Why had I not seen this before? The price, at less than £40, incredible! Remembering all the good times with Cooler Master I had shared, I knew it must be fated in the stars themselves.

    Then, in a dark dark instant it was all taken away. It had not been released yet. End of July it says. How can this be! I had finally thought I had completed this journey of a thousand miles! Trekked burning desserts, singed by the harsh sun, climbed wind whipped mountains and swam the turbulent seas. Everything had slotted in place! Every component harmoniously balanced like the sound from a perfect choir. My wife had a deadline, I know I have to buy this computer next week at the latest otherwise her fickle mind (made extra fickle with the baby girl in her stomach) would change and my project, my vision of perfection would be lost forever.

    I don’t want to go the Silverstone route and succumb to their sirens call. I don’t want to compromise but, as in life with most things, you have to compromise or get nothing at all. It’s just, this is the one time I have come so close to perfection, so close to that sweet sensuous kiss, and not get their. Apart from my daughter that is coming up, it may be my only chance for many many years to come to have perfection. I’m pretty sure money will always find itself going to other things now.

    So after all this, my question to you is how do I get this case in the UK ASAP? And does Cooler Master recommend any low profile CPU fans and heat sinks that would work with this type of case? I know you have at least one, but would it work without problem?

    If you can help, I would be very grateful. I have realized I have written something quite special and hopefully have entertained you at least a little and given you some pause on your life and deeper reflection (though that’s pushing it). Feel free to use this as an example of how good your products are, but let me know where you want to put this up first. And if you want to help out a geek and a new father by sending me goodies, that would be amazing.

    Thank You Very Much!

    Wai

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    Re: Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply

    So....what happened?

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    Re: Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply

    No...reply. This was maybe over a week ago...

    I feel ignored, because i was.

    And there was even a Firefly reference!

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    Re: Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply

    You should look at the Bitfenix Prodigy for a ITX case. I personally dont like the look of the CM Elite 120, and the Bitfenix Prodigy can fit a ton of hardware in it, search around for it, its on the market for around 60 pounds. Although it seems you are dead set on that Elite 120, and hopefully CM can reply to you soon, and maybe even give you one earlier. Good Luck on your next build also.

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    Re: Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply

    I'm afraid I have now gone with the SG05. The bitfenix was bigger than i needed by a lot and more expensive. I should hopefully have built the computer by the weekend.

    Don't think Cooler Master are going to reply somehow.

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    Re: Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply

    lol my hat's off to you for that one.
    Personally I'm waiting on this case too, although I'm in no hurry.

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    Re: Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply

    Maybe they fell asleep while reading it? lol

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    Re: Awesome email I sent to Cooler Master on the release of Elite 120 Case - No reply

    Yeah, it's a bit long, but it does pick up as i got more creative.

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