Sonata = too small!

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:38 am

Well I bought a Sonata sight unseen, and It's a tad too small.
Not particularly keen on the paint job either.. it just so hard to keep clean and any sort of scratch or blemish shows up!

Wlel this will hold me till when the Antec P160 gets released, then I'll probbaly sell the Sonata.

Still waiting on my motehrboard and memory to come through before I install it up.

mudboy · Post by **mudboy** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 3:59 am

Take a look at the Coolcases.com D8000, it's an excellent case.

Pete

miker · Post by **miker** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:21 am

Sounds like you may like an Antec SLK3700BQE. My Sonata may be headed down the road when that thing is available without a PSU.

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 1:46 pm

Would do you think I could use as an air filter for the Antec holes in the Sonata?

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 1:58 pm

miker wrote:Sounds like you may like an Antec SLK3700BQE. My Sonata may be headed down the road when that thing is available without a PSU.

Well I this one is better

has the same features as the Sonata, but bigger, and no PSU, so the 400W Seasonic will be my choice here.

miker · Post by **miker** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:46 pm

I apologize ahead of time, but holy crap is that thing ugly.

Sorry, I hate it when people dis my stuff, but yikes! Antec, wtf are you thinking?

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:48 pm

lol

I'm not too worred about looks so much as features and function

but would alumium be louder you think?

miker · Post by **miker** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:58 pm

Nope, but it does dent easily. Light though, especially if you're going to carry it around. My Sonata with watercooling is a heavy SOB.

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:06 pm

mudboy wrote:Take a look at the Coolcases.com D8000, it's an excellent case.

Pete

Not bad at all! In black off course - to match all of my components

wumpus · Post by **wumpus** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:23 pm

The sonata is smaller than I expected it to be. It's OK, my dual athlon board and drives fit in there-- so as far as I'm concerned, smaller is better.. I don't need another giant hulking PC box in here.

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 7:39 pm

wumpus wrote:The sonata is smaller than I expected it to be. It's OK, my dual athlon board and drives fit in there-- so as far as I'm concerned, smaller is better.. I don't need another giant hulking PC box in here.

funny thing is that it's actually much deeper than my old generic case, but somehow less space inside

miker · Post by **miker** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 8:07 pm

I like the width. Lots of room for pump and res down there. Not sure what you guys do with all that height... Admittedly the airflow is weird in that case though.

CoolColJ · Post by **CoolColJ** » Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:41 pm

Well The small interior size of the Sonata, made it an absolute pain to install my Zalman stuff and motherboard

The 7000alcu in particular.

Took ages. anyway it's up and going.
I dunno about anyone else, but airflow through the case is pretty good. My P4 2.8c overlcoked to 3.5gigahertz idels at 30 degrees with a 20 degree ambient and never goes above 40 degrees under load

The 120mm case fan even when run off the fan outpout has a low freq resosnace. But when I replaced it with the 120mm evercool run at 5v, ow the drop in noise is pretty dramatic. The only major nosie maker is the Antec PSU, but even that is very low in nosie from where I sit, during the day. Seasonic super silencer will fix that. The ZM80 (on radeon 9800 - cools it well even when heavily overclocked!) and 7000alcu at 5v thanks to the Zalman fan controller can't be heard

That 120mm fan makes a big diffference