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Thermaltake Cases

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I'm planning to build a new rig as this one is currently over 4 years old. I'm waiting to see if SLI or Crossfire is better so I'm scrounging $ for my rig until good Crossfire reviews comes out (I figure around Sept. we should know)

Anyway I'm build my system for
1) Quietness
2) Performance

I'll be going with duel water cooling setups, 1 for the NB, CPU and the other for the gfx cards. So I'm looking for a big case to hold both setups and one that has with some good features (looks nice, good airflow, nice price, quiet fans)

I'm thinking of the Thermaltake 9000 or the 8000 series. The 8k looks very similar to the 9000 but is probably last year's model. Anybody with experience is welcome to post what they think of their as well as othe repople with watercooling setups, etc.

Thermaltake 9000

Thermaltake 8000


thanks in advance!
 
Those cases are essentially the same with exception of the doors on front. I have a single watercooling setup in mine and have found it to be quite roomy and easy to set everything up in. I can link to some pics if you would like to see them.
 
I have the armor, Its a sweet case nice and big. Spring for the silver though as that is actually an aluminum case. I have the black which is steel, and that thing is fricking heavy!
Also, if you have a fan contoller of any kind you should go for the armor, i think the door on the kandalf closes close to the drive bays and may interfere with knobs. (any other opnions on this, just speculation on my part?)
 
PLease post some pics. I'd love to see them.

YEah I was thinking of black, I just posted the first one I found on newegg since thye tend to show off products better since they include alot of pictures.

For monitoring I'm thinking of going with a Crystalfontz 635. Their newest product, they still are waiting to get drive bays for them, so no knobs sticking out for me to worry about (just some buttons) everything will be software controlled.

The only thing for sure is that this rig will hurt my wallet. I built this rig for about $700 back in 2001 (inculding my gfx upgrade a year later and the original motherboard that fried), it was a steal. I bought it form some ebay computer builder who mor eor less went out of business soon after.
 
I really enjoy the sideways power supply mount on the 9000 case... but the rest of the case unfortunately sucks in typical Tt fashion. fan grills are bad, slot retention system blows, i don't like the drive mount system (personal preference) and the front looks kinda dumb. But that's just my thoughts 😛
 
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