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That's just a bit too much on the ugly side for me.
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Originally Posted by Blitzen
dragon looks nice. should have sprayed the inside black though
Jealous.....make an Nvidia version. Or a Intel version plxxxxxx.
Has nobody else spotted it's missing the side fan (or anywhere to install one) ?
That's a substantial minus on the functionality of an until-now well-ventilated case. I wouldn't spend more for a HAF without side fans, especially with a hothouse AMD inside.
Yeah because AMD's are so much hotter than intels...oh wait no they aren't.
trollolololol
But seriously though, i7-excluding, you know I'm right
If they're going to make a 'limited edition', why couldn't they make a good looking one? Maybe gun metal shell with a charred (burned, still hot looking) red facade with the dragon logo on the side panel. I honestly think they have made the case look very tacky with just a simply red spray over. They could've been so much more creative and it would've justified a massive asking price if they could produce a really cool custom paintjob like Scan and some other system builders do. Shame really...
Have you seen how much those lacquer-fitted Stackers go for? It's like a plastic vinyl that costs them $10 to apply and they charge £500+ for them. Let's not have limited edition cases cost that much, not with the build quality of Coolermasters anyway.
Haha sure, lets remove i7 altogether and live in an amd paradise.
trollolololol
But seriously though, i7-excluding, you know I'm right
You mean an i5 paradise
Bah, back on topic before we get caught.... haha
Why would you think a billowing fan on the side would make much of a difference anyway? There's a tonne of cool airflow coming in all along the front from top to bottom. And 130W isn't much heat at all.Has nobody else spotted it's missing the side fan (or anywhere to install one) ?
That's a substantial minus on the functionality of an until-now well-ventilated case. I wouldn't spend more for a HAF without side fans, especially with a hothouse AMD inside.
I know people will think I've gone cracked.... But... I kinda like it, almost makes me want to do a Phenom II build. Would sit under my desk quite nicely.... Almost...
/me looks at his thin wallet.
One word - overclocking.
A good fan is night and day for chipset temperatures. It was physically impossible to run my Quad CF setup in my mid tower case, not for the GPUs overheating or the space, but because the chipset got too hot. With the 230mm side fan the HAF was alright, but it's sublime now I've swapped that out for four high speed Scythe 120mms.
AMD chipsets don't heat up with CPU overclocking, all the CPU and RAM clock gating is done on the CPU itself. So that's not a problem.
Yeah, as I was going to mention (but forgot) it's only really a caveat for Intel CPUs, though the volts required to get a Phenom II to high clock speeds are a little daunting, most of that is taken care of with top ventilation (which I also replaced)
For reference, I just ran a test with my side fans and my two 4870X2s.
Lower Pair: Off Upper Pair: Off
Idle temperature at 27% fan speed: 95ºC+ <emergency fan control over-ride activated>
Auto fan speed: 32%
Lower Pair: 1100rpm Upper Pair: off
Idle temperature at 27% fan speed: 76ºC
Auto fan speed: 27%
"There's a tonne of cool airflow coming in all along the front from top to bottom"
Apparently not.
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