Nice Case, great price

[TXMatt]

I posted this in the Hot Deals forum, but thought I would post a link to it here too for those of you who don't read that forum.

See here .

Matt

 

[CraigRT]

whoa, that is a neat case... is it a bother to setup though?

looks cool...

 

[TXMatt]

Originally posted by: CraigRT
whoa, that is a neat case... is it a bother to setup though?

looks cool...

Actually quite the opposite. I spent more time taking the components out of my old case than putting them into the new one. The horizontal bar across the side swings out of the way, the motherboard tray is removable. And almost everything went in SECURELY without a screw. To be exact I mounted 2 optical drives, 2 Hard drives, 4 80 mm fans, the motherboard, and all of the expansion cards SANS screws. All the drives have special screw free drive rails and then slide in from the front. I was struck by, "why didn't someone think of that before?" several times while assembling it tonight. The only things I screwed in were the PSU, my rheobus, and the front 120mm intake fan. The one bummber I came across is that the screwless card mechanisms prevented me from using my Zalman FB123 bracket. For those of you that use Zalman Flower heat sinks, you will need to replace it to use this case.

I went from 49/37 to 42/31 temps between my old case and this new one, and that is with all the fans set at their lowest speed. I still need to hack out the stamped grills througout the case, that ought to make a 1 C difference max, but will quiet it more importantly.

Matt


UPDATE: after hacking out the stamped grills, and attaching the fans with screws instead of the plastic fan bracket I dropped to 39/30! That is 2C better on CPU than I expected. All fans are running 5volt to boot!

 

[Zepper]

I posted about this case about 10 days ago here (in the Cases/Cooling section). At that time, Keypower was selling the bare case (KP-B0317) for $33. While it was on NE (newegg) as Enermax at $63.
. The next day KP's price was up to $39. and the next time I looked it was at $59. Damn AT effect!!!
. What was meant by TXMatt is that the same case is being sold on NE under two different names at significantly different prices - that's not too unusual anyway.
. It's sold now at NE under Bow Tech for $45. and under Enermax for $63. (temp OOS) and they have the platinum version of the Enermax for $95....
. The Compucase units are pretty much the same as all the other Antec/Chieftec/Chenming variants. The Compucase 6A series has 0.8mm metal whereas the higher end models of the similar design have 1.0mm metal.
. FYI, you can get a 3-drive rack for the Bow/Keypower/Enermax/Avance etc. case. Takes up two 5.25" bays in either the top or the bottom of the case. See the Bow Tech web site (it's under suggested parts on the 6000 server page). And when they say TOOLLESS, they MEAN TOOLLESS - don't even need screws to mount the mobo!
.bh.
:beer: time!

 

[nick1985]

i puked when i saw that case

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: nick1985
i puked when i saw that case

i didnt find it too appealing either