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any ideas for a sleeper case?

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eflat

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there probably isn't any good solution right now other than trying to fit things in an old case. but wouldn't it be cool if a manufacturer made an 15 year old looking case that you could fit a killer computer in? nobody would suspect a thing..
 
Lian Li's cases are just what you're looking for. They tend to stay away from the flashy gen-x cases, but their cases, as anyone here can tell you, are top of the line.
 
Go to computer swap meets and get a huge pentium II era tower case....I had the same idea that you had, except there were no places to put fans.
 
Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
there probably isn't any good solution right now other than trying to fit things in an old case. but wouldn't it be cool if a manufacturer made an 15 year old looking case that you could fit a killer computer in? nobody would suspect a thing..
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That's awesome. Are you a car guy or something. Only a street racer would think of something like that. Like the nitrous bottle hidden under an old toolbox and plumbing for the fogger under the intake manifold. Or maybe a little paint to hide the aluminum heads..😀

People will wonder how your old PIII can run current games at max eye-candy with silky smooth fps. "It was just some simple Windows tweaks, I swear."
 
Looks like the Evercase 4252 in beige would do you - these are one of the best OOB for noise and cooling, check SPCR. Get the cheapest one, as yau can get all the optional parts you want direct from Evercase. Can't get much more nondescript than that except with an Enlight. You can get extra HD racks, vibe dampers (rubber HD bushings), air duct, etc. direct from Evercase and pretty cheap too.
. FWIW, the 42x2 chassis is what's inside of the Asus Vento. How can one get more undercover than owning the guts to a Vento???

.bh.
 
Evercase as mentioned.
Antec 3000B

Any Steel case where their arent individual side panels. In order to open it, you have to remove the whole U-shape side,top,side contraption
 
Originally posted by: Skorpio
Go to computer swap meets and get a huge pentium II era tower case....I had the same idea that you had, except there were no places to put fans.
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Multiple hard drives in servers always heated those up, so fan mounts were already being added to larger cases as far back as P-I/233's (I had a couple of those that old around here until recently). But avoid most of the ones from larger brand name producers, because the front panel hookups, among other things, are non-standard and difficult to adapt.

Gateway has usually been an exception to that, although their SFX boxes are proprietary.


😉

 
Originally posted by: CitizenDoug
there probably isn't any good solution right now other than trying to fit things in an old case. but wouldn't it be cool if a manufacturer made an 15 year old looking case that you could fit a killer computer in? nobody would suspect a thing..
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Dude you need an old Packard Bell case :thumbsup:

Or any old case with a Turbo button. When you smoke em in 3dmark05 you can just point to that and smile 😀
 
Get a case that sit horizontally rather than vertically. You know, the ones where the monitor sat on top of the case. I have one housing my old P60.

How about you buy me a P180, and I'll give you the P60's case. 🙂

RoD
 
CitizenDoug, the only problem with getting a POS case is that it's gonna be a POS case. No ventilation or anything. Your parts are gonna be burning up because the only fan in the whole case is an 80mm exhaust.
 
You could hide the fans at the bottom, and have them sucking in air from there, as long as it's standing a little off the floor. Or get an intake fan that mounts in a CD drive bay.

Or the Lian Li cases have excellent cooling.

RoD
 
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