Lian-Li PC6070Plus or Antec P180?

[kman79]

Originally posted by: milleron
So you're going to ditch all three of the Antec fans that come in the case? That's might result in wasting some money. Remember that the Antecs all have built-in 12-7-5V controllers. At their low settings they really don't make any noise, and unless you're stressing your CPU and video card for long periods, you may not need to run them any faster. Of course, those Panaflos are sweet. I have a 120mm Panaflo on my CPU, and I sort of wish I had them in the other positions, but if I did, I'd need to install a fan controller, and that would make cable management more difficult. I thought the Antecs were just too good to take out and ditch.

Ron

Oh, thanks for that information, I was not aware of gthe fan features the fans had. So the fans have an external controller that I can manually adjust? Well this is a pretty full featured case then huh. Ony problem is, what am I going to do with my current panaflos?

 

[milleron]

Originally posted by: kman79
Oh, thanks for that information, I was not aware of the features the fans had. So the fans have an external controller that I can manually adjust? Well this is a pretty full featured case then huh. Ony problem is, what am I going to do with my current panaflos?

Man, I don't know. It would hurt to leave a Panaflo just sitting around unused. I gues if I already had two, I'd put one in the front and replace one of the TriCools with the other, but I'd try to put in a place where my PSU or my motherboard could regulate it. If not, I'd want a FanMate on it.

Ron

 

[kman79]

Well, I'll probably figure something out when the time arrives. It's not down to the P180, Coolermaster RC-810 or RC830. The cooler masters are not designed for silence, but if you guys look up the Cooler Master RC-830, that's got to be the ultimate in Air Cooling. If you guys want to see what I'm talking about, there's a flash demo of it here
http://www.coolermaster.com/Cebit2005/exhibition/flash/CM_Stacker_830.zip
and the product page here
http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?L...t&p_serial=RC-830&other_title=+RC-830+

It's definately big, and doesn't look as clean as the P180. I'm sure it'll look betterin black and I'm not gonna keep the door, that's if I decide on it.

Another question for you guys, do any of the Intake fans by change blow close to the memory? Every part of my system is overclocked, and I like having some fresh air blowing on the memory. If not, I guess it would be okay, I'd just have to rig something up.

 

[Safeway]

Yea, it's stupid how many 120mm fans they want you to install. I guess the reason they give you so many 5.25" bays is so you can install 4 5.25" 4 channel fan controllers.

 

[kman79]

Thats the thing, you can put as little as two fans or as much 8 or 9. You don't have to use them all, the way I see it, I would put one over the RAM and the Video card as an intake and one on the front bottom as an intake, and two in the back as an exhaust. That way I get cooling for the vid card, memory and the chipset. I would have to see this in person before I consider buying it

 

[Safeway]

I simply see it as an ugly case. I like the styling of the original Stacker more than this.

Why can't other case makers take the 120mm hint and make nice cases?!

 

[milleron]

Originally posted by: kman79
Thats the thing, you can put as little as two fans or as much 8 or 9. You don't have to use them all, the way I see it, I would put one over the RAM and the Video card as an intake and one on the front bottom as an intake, and two in the back as an exhaust. That way I get cooling for the vid card, memory and the chipset. I would have to see this in person before I consider buying it

I might be misunderstanding, but you cannot mount a fan behind the bottom intake on the front. However, that intake already has a fan in the form of the lower-compartment fan that comes preinstalled. It's a few inches behind the intake, but it draws air directly from that intake simply because, if you have the hatches between the compartments closed like you're supposed to, it can't draw from anywhere else. Also, if you put a fan in the upper front intake, it should direct some air across your RAM. If the RAM has heat spreaders on it, it should be perfectly fine even without a front blower.

Ron