I think I'm gonna buy a XION case....

DerwenArtos12

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Xion Stacker

It kind of un-nerves me that I can't find something from one of my usuals in my price range and have to go off to this second tier re-facturer but, it's got 8 external 5.25" bays a 120mm rear, a 120mm side and room for one more 120mm side. I'll probably toss the factory hdd cage as it looks pretty restrictive and I have a pair to Tt iCages just laying around. The massive and nearly blank top panel looks like this case could servy my future water cooling plans and a couple more holes in the motherboard tray should make routing pretty clean.

I feel so dirty for buying this off brand though.
 

QueBert

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nice looking case, good price, I'm in the market for a new case. There's too many damn cases out there! I almost wish it was 1990 when my choices were

1. ugly beige mid tower
1. ugly beige full tower
3. ugly beige desktop

Fry's has a decent selection, but I'd love to see a B&M store with like 10 isles of cases. So many I see online I wonder what they're like close up. If I found a store like this I'd probably end up buying a new case every month :)

this one looks sweet hard to believe it's only 60 bucks!




 

Zepper

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Basically the same chassis as the first two Silverstone Kublai cases. The 690 is about $30. shipped AR from ClubIT.com So far C-M has acknowledged all my rebates from my pre-Christmas spree. Only one check has arrived so far...

Re. the Xion, I think I read one review of it that wasn't very complimentary - it lacks some of the Kublai's niceties.

.bh.
 

DerwenArtos12

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Originally posted by: Zepper
Basically the same chassis as the first two Silverstone Kublai cases. The 690 is about $30. shipped AR from ClubIT.com So far C-M has acknowledged all my rebates from my pre-Christmas spree. Only one check has arrived so far...

Re. the Xion, I think I read one review of it that wasn't very complimentary - it lacks some of the Kublai's niceties.

.bh.

and more than half the kublai's price tag.

Originally posted by: QueBert
nice looking case, good price, I'm in the market for a new case. There's too many damn cases out there! I almost wish it was 1990 when my choices were

1. ugly beige mid tower
1. ugly beige full tower
3. ugly beige desktop

I've done some amazing things with those old beige mid and full towers. I haven't yet really started on the old beige desktop I've got but, it's really just a lack of motivation. I've got too many other projects going.
 

nullpointerus

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Originally posted by: Zepper

The 690 is about $30. shipped AR from ClubIT.com

This deal ends tonight BTW. The CM690 looks better overall. Tool-less features...7x120mm fan holes...bottom-mounted PSU, dedicated fresh intake holes available for HDD, CPU, GPU, MB vregs, and even RAM depending on which way the fans are installed...etc.
 

DerwenArtos12

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Originally posted by: nullpointerus
Originally posted by: Zepper

The 690 is about $30. shipped AR from ClubIT.com

This deal ends tonight BTW. The CM690 looks better overall. Tool-less features...7x120mm fan holes...bottom-mounted PSU, dedicated fresh intake holes available for HDD, CPU, GPU, MB vregs, and even RAM depending on which way the fans are installed...etc.

This is for an HTPC/File Server with 6 hard drives and two optical drives though. I'm more worried about making sure the hard drives have adequate cooling and that it runs quiet. I know my old PSU wouldn't work in a 690 either.
 

QueBert

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Originally posted by: BlueAcolyte
No, you forgot the putty and white computers. Or are those beige?

the pure white cases came a few years after the beige ones ;) I remember my first white white case I was like "omgwtfbbq this r0x0rs!?!" of course my beige floppy drive looked ugly in it.
 

nullpointerus

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Originally posted by: Aflac
Looks like a poor man's ugly Tt Armor.

The Xion looks fine to me.

I always thought the Tt Armor looked ugly...especially the side window.
:confused:


To each his own...
 

DerwenArtos12

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Originally posted by: covert24
Originally posted by: Aflac
Looks like a poor man's ugly Tt Armor.

first thing i thought of too.......

you both think the armor looks better? It's cluttered and the tripple window on the side is horrific looking. And the thermal designers must have been smoking crack putting hard drive bays right next to the power supply and with an exhaust fan to create a slight vacumn next to your powersupply, thats smart. Thermaltake's products have always been over rated and over priced.
 

covert24

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yea but that isnt saying much. and i have also owned the armor so i know how it works.
 

Zepper

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Actually several of the fan mounts on the 690 can take up to 140mm fans...

.bh.
 

DerwenArtos12

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Originally posted by: covert24
yea but that isnt saying much. and i have also owned the armor so i know how it works.

I've bult multiple systems in the armor and the armor junior and I stick to my conclusions about thermaltake being severly overpirced and with less quality that thos in it's price point. If anyone I knew was honestly considering an armor I'd smack them. Then show them the stack and even this xion case.