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    Chassis for a dust free experience?

    First off a big hello to the scan community.

    Ok,Perhaps dust free is stretching it, but i would like a chassis that uses removable filters for ease of cleaning.I'm not to sure about the Antec Three Hundred that the system is primarily built into.I'm sure the good people at scan will let me change the chassis. I'm probably going to go for the 3XS i7 920 OC - Edge Edition,the 1GB XFX HD 5830 and 2x500GB Samsung Spinpoint F3(raid 1) for the operating system,and i will be adding 2 other disk drives from the computer it will replace.

    Criteria for the chassis :-

    1. i don't care if its ugly as sin,if i got to look at it, I'll poke myself in the eyes beforehand
    2. I want it running cool,the computer will be on for 9-12 hours or more a day.
    3. i don't mind going over the top with case fans,noise isn't an issue as my hearing has been desensitized from years of loud music ,and nothing can be noisier than the computer i have now...
    4. did i say dust filters
    5. I'm willing to pay anything up to £150.00,thats including any extra fans i might need.
    8. I cant count....

    Thanks for any input

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    Re: Chassis for a dust free experience?

    Ugliness is not a factor, eh? Industrial air filter + positive pressure = awesome.

    http://www.iheartrobotics.com/2010/0...cleanroom.html

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    Re: Chassis for a dust free experience?

    Just ask them to make sure that all of the fans are filtered properly. It's not difficult to fit extra filters if a case doesn't have them.

    Antec are good about that, my P180 came with dust filters on all of the fan intakes, which stops most of it. Could've done with some on the exhaust fans because dust floats in quite easily when it's powered down, but the vast majority is stopped.

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    Re: Chassis for a dust free experience?

    [QUOTE=smargh;1940379]Ugliness is not a factor, eh? Industrial air filter + positive pressure = awesome.

    A sound idea ,I do have a couple of fans,a 12 inch extractor and a 7 inch that could bring in air...so i could turn the room into clean-room,but my partner would have other ideas


    Quote Originally Posted by snootyjim View Post
    Just ask them to make sure that all of the fans are filtered properly. It's not difficult to fit extra filters if a case doesn't have them.

    Antec are good about that, my P180 came with dust filters on all of the fan intakes, which stops most of it. Could've done with some on the exhaust fans because dust floats in quite easily when it's powered down, but the vast majority is stopped.
    An even better idea

    Just got to decide what i want to buy,I'm probably going to ditch the 3XS edge because the graphic cards are a little overkill for what i want,probably go with a custom build workstation as i wont be playing any games just using it for photoshop.


    Thank you both for taking the time to reply

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