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The best case in the world; 7 120mm, 4 80mm

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Mephala

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I know the site for the absolute best case I have ever seen; the Brushed Aluminum Original U2-UFO; it is 18x18x18" and mount points for 2 120mm blowhole fans plus 5 more 120mm and 4 80mm; the site even takes suggestions! There's a 120mm intake right by the motherboard and a quad-80mm blowhole with 3 120mm and 3 extra 80mm as well; it's a limited edition (only in black; powder coat). Mountainmods.com! Retail $265.00
 
I'm with Dman on this one. I'll keep my silent rig.

Chieftec Dragon Case
-Two Panaflo L1A fans in the front (one in hard drive bay)
-Fortron-Source 120mm fan power supply
-Zalman passive cooler with L1A on fan bracket on my Radeon 9500 Pro
-NMB fan of some type on Volcano 9 cooler (soon to be replaced by a Silent Boost heatsink, but I'll chuck the stock fan and keep my NMB.)

Loudest thing in the system? NMB CPU fan. AOpen's SilentTek will soon change that, though.
 
Yup, I don't want my case "super sized"

I'm gonna get that antec aria soon. Small, quiet, fast and um, quiet.
 
As for me, I prefer only performance; I don't care if it doesn't look like someone you'd want to go out with; I don't care if it's noisy, run cables from your monitor up to your basement. What I care about is airflow, and as far as I know this is the best one out there for that (except perhaps for the beloved X-Hurricane)
 
If you don't care about noise or aesthetics, get any tower, open up the side, and grab a 20$ floor fan to blow on it, it'll beat any 120mm setup anyday.

Those box/window fans that are like 2 feet square would be perfect, could just use duct tape to seal it to the case.
 
While it's not the most hideous case (I reserve that for such cases as the Minataur and Alienware cases. Especially the Minataur), it is pretty ugly. And who in the blue hell needs that many fans? Not to mention the fact, that looking at the pic, most of the fans do not seem to blow on anything remotly related to producing heat. So the holes on the left side of the case are for...? Decorative fan use? Wind-tunnel applications? Extra noise-makers in case 6-7 fans just weren't loud enough?

I don't care if it's noisy, run cables from your monitor up to your basement.
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And run downstairs everytime you need to change that game CD! I'll pass thanks. There is no performace gain here IMO. My system has three fans, not including the heatsink on my CPU. It performs superbly, is quite, cool, quiet and doesn't look like a Borg cube of stupidity. Did I mention both quiet and cool. Performance and class. I like that. And again, I can't fathom what it is exactly the fans to the left of the case blow on... Nothing seems to go there but air. It's your $265. No skin off my butt if you want to actually buy that thing...

\Dan
 
"As for me, I prefer only performance"

IF that's true, why waste $$ on some huge ugly case? Why not use those hard earned $$ and go with a nice looking water cooled rig?
 
Originally posted by: skunkbuster
once you go silent, you never want to go back
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...once you get even a bit more quiet, you never go back 🙂.
...and a bit more, and a bit more, and a bit more...
...and when you're starting to wonder if it really paid off, given how YOU can still hear your thundering rig, you go to a retail store and hear one of those Compaqs over the din 🙂
 
You'd be surprised how easy it is to mod those water-cooling units to work with any case (unless you already have); besides, it's not a bad idea to use a floor fan and I have several friends who do. That's one reason I like these windows so much, but make the floor fan system modular, of course, so you can still take the case to LANparties, etc.; I am not trying to be conflictual but in text form I may be coming out that way; if so I am sorry. Also, I know this seems retarded, but as long as I can remain sane, I don't mind any level of noise (probably comes from the volume of my family's speech). One other merit of this company is that they take suggestions.
 
That is a pretty impressive case. I don't think I'd want one though unless I had some seriously hardcore equipment in there (Like an AMD 64 OC'd with one of those new nvidia 6800 cards😎, etc). Otherwise I'd just buy a Chieftec case. Right now though I'm using the Small Form Factor stuff 😉
 
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