My case drives me nuts

[livingsacrifice]

I have one of those Thermaltake Xaser cases, the huge ones with like 4-5 drive bays, 4 slots for 3.5" hd's and 2 floppy areas. I had wanted one forever because it was just so nice, screwless slideable 3.5" and 5.25" devices (I still like that feature), it's got soo many different places for fans to go in (all are 80mm), screwless rear expansion slots, plenty of room, even came with a fan controller. But see after owning it for about a year or two I'm like wow, I really hate this thing, so many problems it's driving me nuts. First of all, it's great it came with 7-8 fans but they died after about a month, had to run out and get some new ones which most of them just failed again recently so I'm needing more. Then, the fan controller, wouldn't work half the time, I ended up taking it out and throwing it away. Oh and the pci rail slots for screwless use, I had to basically break off 2 of those so I can use my 2 slot pci-ex card, half the time they won't work either and it's near impossible to get a screw in there when the thing is broken off. And the number one thing that makes me upset about this case is the power and reset buttons, after owning it for about 4-5 days I press the power button and the other part comes out the backside, that's fine but every single time I fix the thing it pops back out again, ended up breaking too so I'm using the reset button as a power button and I have no reset button at all, really a pain in the butt. And I know I can probably repair half this crap but why? It seems just cheaply made, I'd love to go to Best Buy or Newegg and pick me up a new case. But see I'd love to just get rid of this thing but who's going to take it? I've basically destroyed half of the usefulness to this case and it's a beast would seriously cost a ton for shipping. Anyone else ever had a case that they thought was going to be good but turned out to be a pain?

 

[DerwenArtos12]

I've had plenty of experience with Xasers from the xaser1 up to about the xaser 4 was the last one I've really seen up close. You've run into just about every one of the problems that people run into. And to be honest you more than likely will not find anyone willing to pay much more than the cost of shipping for the case. As for getting a new one, besides what you have already listed what else do you definately want in a case? What's your budget like for a new one?

 

[livingsacrifice]

I got plenty of money for a case, I also have $100 BB gift card so that's why I was looking at the few they had there. I don't really care the brand as long as it's made well. Never really owned anything besides your normal local pc store brand case and this new one. The Antec nine hundred doesn't look bad might consider that one. Basically the things I definately want are screwless slideable 3.5 and 5.25" slots, something that stays cool and I definately don't want something that has a door on it that you have to open to get to your dvd drives. I only have 2 hard drives, 2 dvd writers and a floppy, planning on adding a raptor soon. I would hope a newer case would be setup for dual slot video cards as well.

 

[trOver]

lian li or silverstone ftw. You will find quality here.

 

[livingsacrifice]

I dunno if I want full or mid case, I just seem to not use all the extra slots and crap with the full tower cases but I do know the mids are harder to work in since I got all these wires going everywhere. That antec looks pretty nice I like how the power supply sits on the bottom instead of the top.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: livingsacrifice
I dunno if I want full or mid case, I just seem to not use all the extra slots and crap with the full tower cases but I do know the mids are harder to work in since I got all these wires going everywhere. That antec looks pretty nice I like how the power supply sits on the bottom instead of the top.

check out silverstone TJ-09

its pricey, but a mid tower that is definitely uber sexy.


Also the comment about mid tower....

You plan correctly, use proper cable management... and you can even fit all of this inside a midtower very cleanly..

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0862.jpg

Thats the entire unit powered up and live. So, mid towers arent hard to work on. People just get lazy finishing the project.

 

[livingsacrifice]

Yeah I definately have more wiring than that, half of it is all the fans I have running off those 4 pin connectors, just takes up a bunch of space. Case looks nice though I will admit, black would be a good thing too since both of my dvd drives are black.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: livingsacrifice
Yeah I definately have more wiring than that, half of it is all the fans I have running off those 4 pin connectors, just takes up a bunch of space. Case looks nice though I will admit, black would be a good thing too since both of my dvd drives are black.

I have 5 Fans on this sucker.

Your not seeing what i did to the top:
http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0850.jpg


So just be creative about hiding wires and extending them to reach whatever you need to reach. Use a multiport fan controler, the fan port by sunbeam.

http://i125.photobucket.com/al...aigomorla/IMG_0826.jpg

Lower right side is a fan port. You hide that unit with double sided mounting tape. Which is provided, and plug your fans into that and hide everything.


Just think out of the box when you do stuff. Hiding wires can sometimes lead to creative inspirations.