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Sunbeam Clear Acrylic Mid-Tower

I would imagine that acrylic traps heat fairly well, so just make sure your air flow of fresh air is good. From what I see, there is only one 80mm in front and one in back. I wouldn't consider that good fresh air flow but that's just me. But the thing is even if you go with an aluminum case, you should still have good fresh air flow because it is faster to blow out heat than transmissively dissipating it through the case material.

I would also go nuts with the effort that would have to go into making sure all the cables look nicely arranged. I hide the mess of cables behind the mobo tray, with the acrylic case I wouldn't be able to do this. Not to mention I ghetto rigged a bunch of internal stuff.

Another thing would be that if you added cold cathode tubes, you may not get any sleep if the comp is in your bedroom.
 
I thought about heat but all the reviews mention 5 pre-cut holes for 80mm fans ( two on side panel, one each on top, front and back)..... that's more than enough for cooling, no?
 
Sunbeam stuff is pretty cheaply made. Be very wary, you may find that putting the case together will be more of a chore than dressing it out.
The most obvious drawback I can see is that the case would be a huge pain to keep clean both inside and out. Fingerprints and dust would be brutal.
One cool thing is that you'd be able to watch the dust bunnies tumbleweeding around.
Filters on your intakes would help, and keeping a positive pressure in the case would help.
With five blowholes, three blowing in and two blowing out would keep a nice positive pressure and keep the dust from sucking in all the cracks.
Be sure to put filters behind those intakes and arrange them so you can take them out to clean them easily.
 
Sunbeam actually doesn't make anything too bad. Their Samurai case is good at least.


I used to love acrylics, I used to love things looking like a brightly lit mess in a clear case, but complications to using an acrylic discouraged me.

1. Hell putting together, hell working around inside.
2. No EMI protection. Better hope you aren't living near a radio or tv tower.
3. Fingerprints, dust magnet. Since plastic can't hold a charge, your case will build up a lot of static, which = dust.
4. Delicate as sin. Don't worry about you breaking it, worry about it breaking during shipping.

Finally, the only acrylic case I could find with a 120mm fan slot was the C3, which costed an average of 250 bucks. I just gave up on acrylic and went for something else.
 
I've been using that case for about 5 months now with no problems..The case is very well made, go together nice🙂..the instructions are a bit confusing at first but its not that hard to put together...Took me about 1 1/2 hours to to put the whole system together....

The only problem that I've found is that in order to change you CD, floppy, HD's ect... you have to almost take the whole front of the case apart.
 
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