Cougar Spike Mini Gaming Tower 14.99 AR

[friggencrab]

Just ordered one from Tiger Direct

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...14954&CatId=32

34.99 with 20 mail in rebate.

 

[krnmastersgt]

Saw this on Slickdeals earlier, not a bad price for a relatively decent case. Seems a more solid quality than other cases in that type of price category anyways and with the rebate it's quite a deal. Don't really have any mATX boards lying around but I might be grab one in the near future to play around with the case.

If nothing else, good test platform for my new Dremel

 

[Replay]

Like this case for the money, (cheeeep). Biggest nuisance, regular hard drive cages, which may require you to remove the cpu heatsink when you want to swap drives around. Built one up a month ago, the case from an old Newegg deal. Using 120mm blue fan front & the stock 120mm rear fan = plenty of air for a Xeon s771 on an ATI chipset s775 board (fun project). Could add 2 120mm side fans. Front audio and USB 2 cables don't seem to use shielded wiring. USB3 likely shielded & terminates in a header pin socket. SSD drive mounts to holes on the bottom of the case.

 

[BenJeremy]

Like this case for the money, (cheeeep). Biggest nuisance, regular hard drive cages, which may require you to remove the cpu heatsink when you want to swap drives around. Built one up a month ago, the case from an old Newegg deal. Using 120mm blue fan front & the stock 120mm rear fan = plenty of air for a Xeon s771 on an ATI chipset s775 board (fun project). Could add 2 120mm side fans. Front audio and USB 2 cables don't seem to use shielded wiring. USB3 likely shielded & terminates in a header pin socket. SSD drive mounts to holes on the bottom of the case.

Sounds spot on, but I'd add that it has the PSU mounted to the top of the case, which, like the drive cage, is rather old school. Can't complain about the price, but I've bought "modern" cases (sideway drive trays and bottom-mounted PSUs) for $20 AR in the past.

Odd that the case is new enough to have special mounting for an SSD, but laid out like a case from the late 90s.

 

[Termie]

Sounds spot on, but I'd add that it has the PSU mounted to the top of the case, which, like the drive cage, is rather old school. Can't complain about the price, but I've bought "modern" cases (sideway drive trays and bottom-mounted PSUs) for $20 AR in the past.

Odd that the case is new enough to have special mounting for an SSD, but laid out like a case from the late 90s.

In theory you're right, but this is an mATX case. Using the layout you suggest would lead to terrible airflow and space utilization. All the best mATX cases, from the TJ08 to the Line-M to the PS08B to the Fractal 1000 use a top-mounted PSU.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

In theory you're right, but this is an mATX case. Using the layout you suggest would lead to terrible airflow and space utilization. All the best mATX cases, from the TJ08 to the Line-M to the PS08B to the Fractal 1000 use a top-mounted PSU.

I'm using and coolermaster n200 mATX case that is bottom mount psu. Care to enlighten me how it has "terrible airflow and space utilization"?

 

[Termie]

I'm using and coolermaster n200 mATX case that is bottom mount psu. Care to enlighten me how it has "terrible airflow and space utilization"?

The N200 is huge for a mats case. It's a great case, bit all the cases I listed are ultra-compacts.

Anyway, this is a hot deals thread, so no need to derail the OP's helpful post.