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My vote is for the Eclipse and P180, I have both.
Get two cases
My vote is for the Eclipse and P180, I have both.
Eclipse-62 gets my vote, it's spafftastic.
I've got an Enermax Chakra coming in tomorrow so that should be interesting ... 25cm fan on the side. Ports on the top and has eSATA on the case too !
looks an interesting caseOriginally Posted by dbh
I notice you have an 8800 GTX in your Antec.
Did you have any problems with it (nearly) touching the drive bays?
I am down to 2 choices, the P180 or the Lian Li A10 for my new build, but i get bits of "advice" from mates who say the 10.5" BFG cards will no fit.
PLEASE put me out of my misery.....
The A10 has greater clearance, I'll let you know later once I have taken the side off. Build quality is better by far than the P180, it is a good case (P180) but it is LianLi were talking about. CustomPC did a review this month on the A10 and gave it 78%.
I would take issue with them on that as they were concerned about the PSU overheating with insufficient clearance ie it lays on it's side. I can tell you know no such problems. You have enough room to put a second PSU, I have tried this and again no temp problems.
You would probably have to remove one of the HHD cages on the 180 to make room for the GTX, m8 of mine has the 180 he had too.
I was in the same situation as yourself 2 months ago, I went for the A10 against the P180 nad have not regretted it since.
I never liked the look for Lian Li cases, I don't know why, but every time I look at em, I just don't like them, outside or inside.
In the P180's defence, the hard drives are better off in the lower compartment, but some of the more annoying issues like the PSU position is clearly trying to be too smart without thinking it clearly.
Hold on a bit if you can - for the P182?
I can appreciate that. Externally they can come across a little... plain. I love mine (I'd hate something 'extreme'), but I fully understand how for the price, some would want something a little flashier.
No complaints about the insides of mine - so deep that anything will fit in it and it's very clean with no ducting or special fans. There's plenty of room behind the motherboard tray to dump cables if you can't be bothered to tie them all up, and it'll take any heatsink I'm aware of. It's just a well thought out case.
My only annoyance at all is the lack of USB headers - there's just a cable with individual connectors on, so using the front ports can be a bit of a faff. No longer a concern, as the ports on my monitor are plenty enough.
In hindsight, I just wish I'd bought a black one
I love mine, think it looks hard and love the modular aspects, but does needs a bit of cleaning with all that mesh
the thing against the 900 for me is it's so huge!
It was a tough decision between the solo and the p180, but the 'extra' features / snob factor of the p180 won out.
Temjin Tj09
Phong 2 - Rocks at the price and looks better in the flesh!
Must admit if I was choosing again that would be on my list.Temjin Tj09
Personally I think all the cases on the market are less than perfect, especially where room to grow is concerned. Maybe all the Hexites could put their heads together and come up with the 'perfect case' design and submit to manufacturers.
It's way too expensive to contract an engineering company to manufacture for you, although the uniqueness factor would probably outweigh the monitory value if you had plenty of it
Can get one that looks like tokyo tv tower so when i get pissed off with my PC i can look like godzilla next to it
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