Guest zerodamage May 10, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests May 10, 2003 Take a look at this case. It is what I have, just a newer model. Mine did not come with a PSU. This looks like a really good one. http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproduct.asp?...-125-200&DEPA=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL May 10, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member May 10, 2003 I am pretty sure Jester has some sound damping material (Duramat or something like that...all you car stereo thumpers should recognize that)cuz he has a monster Thermalright cpu heatsink/fan. I have not heard him complain about it so he must like it fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Mmmm]Homer May 10, 2003 Share [Mmmm]Homer Member May 10, 2003 That aluminum Chieftec ZD mentioned comes in other colors too. I have beige steel one myself. Nice and roomy to work with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphappy May 10, 2003 Author Share Slaphappy Member May 10, 2003 ya I'll be honset I don't like having to open a door to put in a cd...that just bugs me I'm glad I went with the one i did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL May 10, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member May 10, 2003 Another thing about the Antec Soho cases (Chieftec, Alienware, Thermaltake, etc, all take this case and modify it then slap their labels on it) is that, if you buy an Audigy Platinum line sound card (1 or 2), if you install the break out box in one of the 5.25 bays, you can't shut the door all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage May 10, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests May 10, 2003 I wanted a full tower vs a midtower. Room to move around i the case. Plus mine was only 65 bucks with free shipping and it had the glass door with a fan in it already. I am very happy with it. It looks really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[VI]ROosTEr May 10, 2003 Share [VI]ROosTEr Member May 10, 2003 Yeah, I went way overboard with mine too, just so I could have the room I wanted to work in, and enough space to put anything I wanted to put in the thing in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphappy May 11, 2003 Author Share Slaphappy Member May 11, 2003 I just don't want to carry something that big around...and I always have trouble with IDE cables not being long enough etc. I take my comp to kemo's or other places fairly often when it's all said and done...and as far as i'm conserned it's not how big it is...it's...it's something else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage May 11, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests May 11, 2003 (edited) Doing some research and this seems to be one of the best water cooling units around. If you get a new case, etc you can just take it off and move it to the new case. It has me quite interested at the moment.... Exos Water Cooling You can get this unit on Newegg currently for 239.99. newegg link Edited May 11, 2003 by zerodamage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage May 11, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests May 11, 2003 Here is one more I have not read yet. I will look it over tomorrow and give my opinion. I am interested at the moment and am considering experimenting, just for the hell of it. http://www.xtremods.com/vbulletin/show.php...view_evercoola1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphappy May 11, 2003 Author Share Slaphappy Member May 11, 2003 thanks man...but for the moment the new case I got is gonna have to cool it enough cuz i'm out of money, but i'll have 5 fans in the case so I should be ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage May 11, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests May 11, 2003 That second water cooler I posted is only a 100 dollars, but from what I just read on that little review, it isn't very good. The unit basicaly goes inside one of your bays meaning the water is cooled inside your case and the heat disapated from the water is still in the case. The first one is the one I would go with myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL May 11, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member May 11, 2003 Yeah, the Exos is the external version of my Koolance. Everything I have read about it gets rave reviews. I looked at that second one and I agree with ZD about the heat not getting properly dissipated. It would be up against at least one of your drives (whether sandwiched between an HD and a CD drive or resting above a CD drive...those drives can get warm). Also, the radiator looks downright pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage May 11, 2003 Share Guest zerodamage Guests May 11, 2003 Dweez, tell us your model of water cooler and direct us to a review of it that has pictures and maybe even post up a link to the price on newegg. I am curious about it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL May 11, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member May 11, 2003 Here is the link for it. http://koolance.com/products/product.html?code=MCS-A01 I got the case from Rizad. I traded him my chieftec case (like yours ZD but black) and $60. I don't currently have any links of it reviewed. I will dig some up after a while. Right now I am busy colating and stapling 45 sets of printouts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asphyxiator May 12, 2003 Share Asphyxiator Member May 12, 2003 I knew a guy who had a celron 600 oced to 3.8ghz. He had a home made freon cooling system. When it gets to that point... i think youve got some serious issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[VI]ROosTEr May 18, 2003 Share [VI]ROosTEr Member May 18, 2003 Brought to you by the same people that brought you the VapoChill, Asetek's new watercooling kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiZad May 18, 2003 Share RiZad Member May 18, 2003 I knew a guy who had a celron 600 oced to 3.8ghz. He had a home made freon cooling system. When it gets to that point... i think youve got some serious issues. 633% overclock? I really doubt that. At least make your post believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asphyxiator May 18, 2003 Share Asphyxiator Member May 18, 2003 (edited) this is true, he was a friend from europe, who ended up killing himself, but he said it was true and showed me a screenshot of his sisoft sandra cpu benchmark. I guess he could have doctored it up but i wouldnt doubt its possible. His ran at -40C. There is almost no limit to how much you can overclock with a freon system. Here are some links: http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20001103/v...pochill-07.html http://www.tech-pc.co.uk/prometeia-1.php http://www.overclockers.com/articles212/ Edited May 18, 2003 by Asphyxiator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL May 18, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member May 18, 2003 Asphyx...there certainly is a limit. That sounds like it is stretching it a bit but not too outlandishly. I have heard of a 200MHZ being OC'ed to like 1GHz before using freon. They ran a demo of Q2 on it and it took like 7 minutes for it to complete the first level. Then the hardware burned out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asphyxiator May 18, 2003 Share Asphyxiator Member May 18, 2003 (edited) Gah!!!... mixed stories in my head, i was re-reading my trillian logs about it and they were two separate people who had done it. The celeron 600 was only up around 1.5ghz, it was a p4 that was in the mid 3s... my bad. Edited May 18, 2003 by Asphyxiator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphappy May 24, 2003 Author Share Slaphappy Member May 24, 2003 hehe just wanna get this out of my system....my computers been down cuz of OS trouble but I got my new case...I decided not to go with water cooling. Currently my case has 3 intake fans in the front 2 outtake in the back and one (led heheh) outtake on the side. I OC my processer to 1.73 (up from 1.5 {it's a athlon 1800}) After a few hours of game play (playing raven shield and ghostrecon on lan) the temp got up to 113. this is how hot it ran in my old case with no OCing. I have 2 hd in there now and I've got a 40 gig coming so I can take out the 2 and only have 1. Now for the actual question. I'm not a master on air flow here and I think if this should be pointed at someone it's rooster (i think you said something about fan placement before) I don't know where the best place to put fans are.....or rather given the places I have which direction they should be blowing. Above is link to the case but for thouse who can't really see from that pic I'll tell ya where I have to place the fans. I can put 4 in the front 2 in the rear of the case and one on the side. I have enough fans to fill evey fan slot in my case. My train of thought goes like this. I could have 4 in the front for intake and 2 on the back as out take and the on the side as out take. 4 intake 3 outtake However the fan on the side is pointed directly at my processer heatsink, so while my heatsink is sucking air in the side fan is blowing it out.....If I set the side fan to blow air in, it would blow cool outside air directly onto my processer heatsink. the problem here would be (if it would be a problem that is) that I would know have 5 fans blowing into my case and only 2 blowing out. any thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphappy May 24, 2003 Author Share Slaphappy Member May 24, 2003 Oh ya something else. if you look at the case the power button has a blue led....well the led works but its so dim you can hardly tell it's on. I tryed pluging it in a few diffen't ways on my MB but it wouldn't turn on any other way than the way it's pluged in. I really want the thing to be friggen bright but i'm not sure how to run more current through the led... I think it's pretty obvious but just in case it's the power on led (so eveyone is clear on what kind of connection it is) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwEEziL May 24, 2003 Share dwEEziL Member May 24, 2003 The best solution for you with fans would be to have the same number of exhaust fans as you have intake. As for the LED, I think you are pretty much screwed with the brightness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaphappy May 24, 2003 Author Share Slaphappy Member May 24, 2003 kool. well currently I've got 3 intake in front and 3 out take so I'll leave it like that. Sucks about the led though...oh well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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