Passive case Akasa Euler MX review

[Bonebreaker777]

Passive case Akasa Euler MX @ HWcooling.net

Wasn't sure where to post this but I've found this review rather informative. Also given me the idea to replace my HTPC case with one of these.

Any thoughts?

[Xlucine]

That's a nice looking case, although I could see it being more useful if it could take a 3.5" drive (in fairness, there isn't a massive price difference between 2.5" and 3.5" drives of equal capacity for a couple of terabytes).

It looks quite sealed, so while it does a good job of shedding heat from the CPU (you could fit an 8-core CPU in that TDP, although you'd need a graphics output) I wonder if a couple of blowholes would help it shed heat from the chipset and drives?

Akasa have a smorgasbord of different flavours on their site (Euler plain, S, T, TX, M, MX) that all seem to offer very similar things, I'm not sure why. They didn't even have a common extrusion die, which is odd (the euler and S share one, the M and T share another, and the TX and MX both have their own custom tooling)