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I am currently (finally) ditching very, very old (2) 75gb and 150gb platter (WD) drives. I am going to put in (2) 96gb SDD drives and a 1tb drive. I also just purchased a Corsair H50 cooler and am tempted to replace my current water cooling set up as well.
I am trying to figure out a few things, the first is the least intrusive, getting a 2.5 to 3.5" type tray.
My current tower uses this screws that act as guides that slip into rails in the HDD area.
Below is a picture of the tab that I slide up and then slide the HDD into the rails, once in place you just push the tab back down to make sure it doesn't slide back out.
With this in mind, if I just reuse the screws, shouldn't something like this work fine? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817997013
Next possible step, buying a new, smaller tower. I bought my current tower about 3 years ago from a friend, but have since upgraded the internals (mobo, cpu, gpu, ps etc) the only thing I am still using are wires were I needed and the installed water cooling system. (I have some variant of this tower - http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=554&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=138). To put it simply, it's the biggest desktop tower I've ever seen and doesn't even fit in the tower are of my desk. I had to take off the door and cut a hole in the back and the tower still over hangs the front and back!
My current mobo, CPU, GPU, and power supply.
The tower area of my desk is 19"x11"25" (LxWxH), current tower is 24.5"x8.5"x24". You can see plain as day just how huge the radiator is (lower left hand corner of the last pic), the pump is actually on top of my PS and the loop goes to the CPU, GPU, reservoir then radiator. I just bought the Corsair H50 because it was a steal at BB for $40. Current cooling system is Swifttech, but I'm unable to locate on their website the blocks etc. I'm fine having my gpu being air cooled, but if I am going to replace the cooling system I only want to when I put the PC into a new, smaller tower. I went through a hell of a time when I put together this current rig, trying to get everything to fit (granted I still have space, it's just IMO a cluster fuck of stuff going on with the giant radiator pump and the fact I found out the hard way the PS that came with the tower wasn't sufficient for the C2D I bought (needed another rail).
With all that said, can anyone recommend a tower that would fit in my desk and be practical? I'm not opposed to spending a few bills on a new tower, but I don't need anything special, but other then size I would like to make it quieter if possible. I only have 4 fans, two on either side of the radiator, PS fan and another case fan on the back end, but the damn thing seems really, really loud, but I think thats due to more of the pump then the fans as the case has some thin foam backing on the side panels to help with sound damping.
(And YES, that is a freaking floppy drive that actually works... Its only still there because I don't have a cover to replace it if I took it out)
I am trying to figure out a few things, the first is the least intrusive, getting a 2.5 to 3.5" type tray.
My current tower uses this screws that act as guides that slip into rails in the HDD area.
Below is a picture of the tab that I slide up and then slide the HDD into the rails, once in place you just push the tab back down to make sure it doesn't slide back out.
With this in mind, if I just reuse the screws, shouldn't something like this work fine? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817997013
Next possible step, buying a new, smaller tower. I bought my current tower about 3 years ago from a friend, but have since upgraded the internals (mobo, cpu, gpu, ps etc) the only thing I am still using are wires were I needed and the installed water cooling system. (I have some variant of this tower - http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=554&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=138). To put it simply, it's the biggest desktop tower I've ever seen and doesn't even fit in the tower are of my desk. I had to take off the door and cut a hole in the back and the tower still over hangs the front and back!
My current mobo, CPU, GPU, and power supply.
The tower area of my desk is 19"x11"25" (LxWxH), current tower is 24.5"x8.5"x24". You can see plain as day just how huge the radiator is (lower left hand corner of the last pic), the pump is actually on top of my PS and the loop goes to the CPU, GPU, reservoir then radiator. I just bought the Corsair H50 because it was a steal at BB for $40. Current cooling system is Swifttech, but I'm unable to locate on their website the blocks etc. I'm fine having my gpu being air cooled, but if I am going to replace the cooling system I only want to when I put the PC into a new, smaller tower. I went through a hell of a time when I put together this current rig, trying to get everything to fit (granted I still have space, it's just IMO a cluster fuck of stuff going on with the giant radiator pump and the fact I found out the hard way the PS that came with the tower wasn't sufficient for the C2D I bought (needed another rail).
With all that said, can anyone recommend a tower that would fit in my desk and be practical? I'm not opposed to spending a few bills on a new tower, but I don't need anything special, but other then size I would like to make it quieter if possible. I only have 4 fans, two on either side of the radiator, PS fan and another case fan on the back end, but the damn thing seems really, really loud, but I think thats due to more of the pump then the fans as the case has some thin foam backing on the side panels to help with sound damping.
(And YES, that is a freaking floppy drive that actually works... Its only still there because I don't have a cover to replace it if I took it out)
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