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Krynj

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Oh, 800D is sooooo nice.

I saw it at Microcenter, but I already had my Lanboy Air on order from the Egg. Plus, I didn't know anything about it, and I'm not the type to spend that much money on something without reading up on it first.

$276 on the Egg right now. Maybe I could see the Lanboy Air for $100 or something. It's such a nice case.
 

MotF Bane

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There's a guy from Boston who has had a beard since the Bruins last won the Stanley Cup.

He's clearly kept it trimmed though, so that's cheating.
 

MotF Bane

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I saw it at Microcenter, but I already had my Lanboy Air on order from the Egg. Plus, I didn't know anything about it, and I'm not the type to spend that much money on something without reading up on it first.

$276 on the Egg right now. Maybe I could see the Lanboy Air for $100 or something. It's such a nice case.

I picked mine up for about $225 on a sale, lucked out on it. It's amazing.

The steel is solid, everything is fitted well, it's heavy, the powdercoating job is high quality and looks great. There's a slide-out screen to help filter dust from the underside intakes. PSU sits in the bottom, facing down. There's a ton of space for cables down there, plus room for three or four hard drives in the front.

The hotswap bays come with their own special cables and a plastic shield to cover their connectors. Four hotswap bays, so really, the hard drive rack below the deck is just cable storage. Holds five external drives, the entire brushed aluminum faceplate comes off with six solid tabs. Top is indented for some puzzling reason, holds a common radiator. Comes with 140mm fans, those unfortunately need motherboard three pin plugs, not standard four pin molex.
 

MotF Bane

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The plastic shields around the fans are a little disappointing, their fit is a bit iffy, but if you're nice to them, they'll hold in place, and then just don't bother them further.

The side panels are perfectly square; I've had some cases in the past that the panels have warped. These things won't ever twist. They slot into three points on the bottom edge, and then swing up into place, so there's no back and forth sliding to scratch things, or struggle with wires.
 

MotF Bane

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All those rubber grommets are nice, there's plenty of them. The 24 pin connector has two grommets, neither in the right place for me, which is unfortunate, but workable. I bought some individually sleeved extension cables to finish the appearance. You need long power supply cords to get to the furthest reaches.
 

MotF Bane

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Around the back of the case, it's recessed more than the norm, which helps to put the cables in there. Everything wired up easily and neatly, with the addition of half a dozen zip ties and four adhesive zip tie hooks. There's tons of room over by the 5.25" rails, swap bay, and hard drive rack to stash cable connections.
 

MotF Bane

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The front panel connectors are just long enough to wire up nicely around the back.

There's a plastic panel that clips out of the back of the motherboard tray, so if you have a hard mount or a backplate, you can access both sides of the board without removing it.
 

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I've made one semi-serious modification - I bought a black powdercoated professional server rack cover plate, designed for two bay coverage. Take that, cut off the last two inches, drill and tap three holes through the plate and the lip of the internal flat plate, and then screw it together. Voila - you hide the entire bottom area, with all those nasty extra cables. Cost about $20.
 

MotF Bane

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So, the guy and his beard. He goes to get it shaved off, the girl doing the job (nice body) is younger than the beard. His wife has never seen him without a beard. Neither has his two kids.
 

IndyColtsFan

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The computer at home is nearly finished. The waterblock has been mounted over a little scrap of plastic. The backplate has been placed, but I can't put the nuts on the posts, I think because Foxconn put their own backplate over the socket. I don't think it poses a problem.

I thought you gave up on building it? Is this a new PC?
 
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