Ignoring the ridiculous name for a moment... Has anyone had any experience with this heat sink? Is it any good? And does it actually fit on all the 'brilliantly' designed ITX boards with CPU sockets right next to the PCIe slots (Gigabyte H77-WiFi in my case)? According to Gelid's picture it should, ...

This new look is absolutely disgusting and useless, sorry. I'm not going to repeat what was said already.

Too bad, another forum to not be read anymore *sigh*

Have you tried the setup without the front fan? There's nothing for it to spot cool really so it seems unnecessary. Possibly if you add a fanless video card. But with the top down CPU cooler, that should help keep the airflow moving around enough. No; I thought about it for a few seconds but then I...

You mention the use of plastic tiles on the panels, is that vinyl? I don`t think that adding foam on top of that is necessary. I find foam effective against the noise produced by hard disk drives (and other mid/high frequency noises), but seeing that there`s none in your pc you could skip this step...

2) They'll be mounted horizontally, pushing air up through fins spaced 1cm apart, so don't need high static pressure. ...And the s12 won't cut it as I need some static pressure. hmm? :? But regardless, How do people find the noctua p12? I read it has an annooying sound signature due to the notches ...

I was considering good old cheap and trusty 12cm yate loons DS12L. I think I will actually start a thread on this, but just really quickly - based on my experience, I can't understand where that myth comes from. I bought 5 of these in March (the NCIX special) and they ALL suck... errr, blow.... I m...

So I have finally (sort of) finalized my work pc that should have been operational about 9 months ago. I blame most of that delay on my unfortunate decision to try a Zotac ITX setup; I wasted so much money and time because of that thing... But anywhoo, better late than never. Due to being broke, I h...

ces wrote:...
At least one other person here likes them:

He said it's a strange new case... how that implies that he likes it is lost on me. Quite the opposite if anything.

(Are you trying to get a job with Lian-Li or do you just have too much time on your hands?)

Oh yeah, I've seen those a while ago. What a waste of aluminum.

(And 'cases'?)

New question though, I bought windows 7 and I'm trying to install it, but it gets stuck every time on expanding files, doesn't even get past 0%. Also tried XP, and server 2003, nothing. For what it's worth, I've done a couple of W7 installs where it would take forever to get past 0% (and then same ...

I have not been satisfied with the results. We'll see what happens as I start experimenting with PWM fans. It's can't be that bad. The stock intel setup uses a PWM fan. They do seem to work as designed. What motherboards and PWM fans have you used? The last 2 boards are Zotac 9300-g-e and an Asus M...

Noctua NF-P12 is the one you want for the CPU heatsink. (with either of the adapters, depending on your idea of quiet and good temps) I wouldn't bother with PWM fans at all... and I don't as a matter of fact. I have yet to find a mobo and pwm fan that would work as intended (not that I have tried ma...

I really liked the case in pictures. I bought the second one from CanComps (because it's the only one I could get around here, I like the Chieftec one better). I was planning to put up my system in it on here as well, but no time these days, + I'm having issues with the mobo so I put those plans on ...

This case, or at least the guts of it, is sold under a number of names/makes with different bezels and power supplies. I *think* the original (I could be wrong) is the Chieftec BT-02 I've seen it coming out as "Spires" a while ago: http://us.aving.net/news/view.php?articleId=138448 Canada Computers ...

That's great. Now I just can't wait to see the prices, and shipping charges...

Apple doesn't make excellent products. True. Apple make good products usually... False. ... They sell image, way of life that can be obtained by buying an Apple's device. True. In a very sad way. Apple could take an icecream stick, duct-tape tape it and paint and sell and iStick. True. That is how ...

TJ-08 if you ask me. Even though there's plenty of room for improvement. On the bright side, there's also plenty of room for HX520 and an optical drive. The worst thing to me is dealing with 3.5" HDDs in this case, but it's manageable. Also, you need to forget about the removable mobo tray if you're...

Looks great at first sight, but as usual, stupid design and layout. No thanks.

javitxi wrote: Also, seeing your case, why don't you buy x1-x2 1,5TB Caviar Green Western Digital replacing all the HDDs you have? Less space, less power consumption, less noise =)

that system is only using that one laptop HDD

and while I'm at it, this picture should explain why that Seasonic is such a good fit there - it has the cables coming out on the "other" side so it doesn't interfere with the DVD drive + there is that empty space to keep the unused cables in... *sigh* (yes that's masking tape, work in progress :) )...

Dirty power, possibly combined with the the above? Lets hear your setup, starting from the wall...(UPS?>{3 different PSU's}>mobo>chip>cpu>gpu>add on card>over/under clocked/volted?>wireless devices?>fans/controllers>monitor...) I'm not sure what's behind the wall ;) but I'm running off of an APC XS...

Just a quick thought on the Seasonic - are you 100% sure it's the PSU? My PC has serious squealing/whining issues if I leave the power saving features of the CPU enabled, and that issue vanishes when I turn them off. I know it's not an option for everyone, but just putting it out there :). That was...

So I don't know if I'm just having incredibly bad luck, or my hearing is THAT sensitive or whatever it is, but it seems that there is no such thing as a quiet power supply for me... Right now, I have 2 (or 3, depending on how you feel about Antec) highly rated, supposedly quiet PS's in front of me, ...

Didn't you mean GF9300-I-E ? => "I"

Hopefully, they're making it 2-3" deeper, so that a tower heatsink doesn't conflict with the optical drive bay, and putting a fanless ~450W PSU in the front of the case, through which air can be drawn as an intake. Uh, I sure hope it's a big NO on both... (not that I think we need to worry about ei...

Belmonte wrote:Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but according to this, it seems the case is being upgraded

It would have been nice if the Antec people bothered to say HOW exactly, while they were at it... sheesh...

... But I kinda doubt the web page when it says 4 HDDs + 2 fans. I think it is more like 4 HDDs or 2 fans. In the picture, you see 2 HDDs mounted in one slot and 1 fan mounted on another. It could be theoretically possible to mount a fan on top of 2 HDDs. But it wouldn't make sense.... You can clea...

Hmm, website says "we're back and better than ever"...

Is that what happens when a toy manufacturer decides to make a computer case?

Oh and that B I'm pretty sure only refers to 'black'