Need help seeking case been looking at the BitFenix cases anyone have any ideas?
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Need help seeking case been looking at the BitFenix cases anyone have any ideas?
What are you looking for? what styles do you like? how much you willing to spend?
The BitFenix Survivor is a nice case (slight niggle is having to unscrew two rear sections of the trim before you can get the side panels off) and the new Shinobi is also nice (although a little expensive)
The new Fractal design Arc is looking good too
LanCool K60
The corsair Graphite 600t is very nice if you can afford it.
Quite liking the Silverstone Raven due to the 90degree slots....haven't spotted any others with the feature yet though.....
BitFenix Survivor is a nice case but it's air flow isn't that great!
Yes I do love the layout of the new raven3, just don't like the price, also a little disapointed with the looks
Silverstone toned it down from the preproduction model, but I think I prefered the more radical look.
If you're going to give something a radical look then you have to push the boat out and go for it.
Is it that bad?Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackmage
Taken from Bit techQuote:
Originally Posted by petercook7
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Originally Posted by Bit tech
It does look a little like an Imac and a PC have been doing naughty things together, but I've seen far worse. Asus Vento anyone ?
but the exact same thing can be said for a lot of cases with lots of fan slots but only a couple of fans at stock, if you take the base numbers from the stock fractal design define it's got really rubbish cooling because it comes with two rather weak 120mm fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blackmage
Having gotten hold of one of the bitfenix 200mm fans I can say they are very nice, yes the air flow feels a bit low but that down to the very low rpm which in turn make them near silent.You could easily get the Core version which lacks a top and rear fan then put your own choice of more powerful fans in and the air flow would jump up considerably.Quote:
Originally Posted by bit tech
It would be more noisy, but the air flow would be better.
Oh and bit tech in general seem to dislike 200mm fans, I seem to remember they also didn't think much of 140mm fans back when few cases supported them, although they seem more excepting of them now they are more common.
I'd also like to add that bit tech's stepup is rubbish for the fan setup of the survivor without a rear fan.
If you've got a large 200mm fan extracting air about the cpu socket and no rear fan, then you don't mount a cpu tower cooler point towards the back of the case, where the cooler exhaust air is not being fed into the 200mm fan and the cooler fan is fighting against half of the air flow of the top fan.
What you do do is mount the cooler pointing upwards.
While side panel fans and vents can add quite a bit to overall cooling, you might as well rip out all the dust filtering from a case because of them, because all they do is restrict air flow, this means more air will get pulled in through unfiltered side vents making the filters pointless.
It's all down to what you want from a case, the survivor can still generate enough air flow to keep components in operating temperatures but at the same time it's very very quiet and low internal dust.
If you want raw cooling performance then generally the case matters less than the fans, you can generate more air flow and cooling with a single high power 120mm delta fan than a case full of very low rpm fans.
You'd have to use ear defenders when using your pc but the air flow would be better.
One of the base realities of fans is; air flow = noise
There are lots of little tricks and tweaks in fan design that can eek a bit more air flow out without greatly impacting the noise, but the amounts you can gain is small and the base rule still holds true.
Corsair 650 is the best case on the market for size, value, design and looks - personally I would get this. If a little too much then the lankool K62 still makes a good case. If this is too much still then maybe the Coolermaster CM690ii standard.
I keep looking at the Fractal define R3 as mentioned earlier or the Lian Li PC-A05N because its different to a lot of other cases.
Only thing is the Lian Li seems to really need a blowhole in the top panel to properly cool the GPU.
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/lian-...r-case-w-o-psu
Those two cases are completely different. Ones a tiny ATM case, while the other a large Mid ATX case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheapy
One is made of steel, the other Aluminium.
What you putting into this case?
I would be using what is in my system spec to the left plus a Xonar DG soundcard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brewster0101
petercook7 would be using whats in his signature im guessing.
Dont like Lian Li cases, would like a case sub £100, with no plastic sliver bits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheapy
Fractal Design R3