Need new case: cheep, full tower, all 120mm fans, good cooling.

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OK, like it says, i want all off that, and a door over the CD drives, (they can get loud at times) for a hopeful $50 or less with a max of $15 or less. Any help is fine, it doesn't have to look really nice, and doesn't have to have too-less designs, but it cant look stupid, and the hard drive bays need to be parallel for all HDD, and so that all HDD's power and SATA cables face tord the back of the case.

I know that a lot to look for, but judging from my current case,

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I hope that wont be too hard...
 
Need a bigger one. Mainly because of I'm getting a 8800GTS and because I need more HDD space for my new additions soon, plus I need better airflow, and just more room in general.
 
Full towers range in size. My P180B is a "mid tower" but it's larger than the "full tower" you linked above.

And as for that case, it's a POS, poorely crafted and loud as hell.
 
Full tower does not automatically mean "good air flow". When you have lots of open space in a case with no air control the heat tends to just resonate there. Servers that run in rack mount cases have no open space and they are some of the most effeciently cooled systems out there for what they are capable of.

Personally, I have an Antec Lanboy, and I chose it because of the easy access to the HDs, the slide out trays, etc. I went with functionality over looks, even though it does look kind of cool I guess. It is also light weight which is a plus since I hate moving heavy comptuers.

Why exactly do you need a full tower? You gonna run like a 8TB RAID or something? Redundant power supplies?

You realize they are coming out with a 1TB HD now, so its not like you need a lot of space for tons of HDs to have lots of HD space. My mid tower will hold 3 optical drives and 4 ide/sata drives and its a mid tower.
 
tlarkin said:
Full tower does not automatically mean "good air flow". When you have lots of open space in a case with no air control the heat tends to just resonate there. Servers that run in rack mount cases have no open space and they are some of the most effeciently cooled systems out there for what they are capable of.

Personally, I have an Antec Lanboy, and I chose it because of the easy access to the HDs, the slide out trays, etc. I went with functionality over looks, even though it does look kind of cool I guess. It is also light weight which is a plus since I hate moving heavy comptuers.

Why exactly do you need a full tower? You gonna run like a 8TB RAID or something? Redundant power supplies?

You realize they are coming out with a 1TB HD now, so its not like you need a lot of space for tons of HDs to have lots of HD space. My mid tower will hold 3 optical drives and 4 ide/sata drives and its a mid tower.
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I like high speed driver, but they make a lot of heat. Therefore, I have an HDD with its own dedicated heatsink and fan. needs 2 spaces per HDD though. Also, I like only a few at a time, my new HDD is specifically for games, nothing else on it. For hi performance HDD's it cost more per gigabyte. plug the fact I will need to move them in order to fit my new 8800GTS soon. And other things.
 
if I were looking for a case now I would buy one with 250mm fan
like this one

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...details-print.asp?EdpNo=1901960&Sku=TC3J-4048

small fans are high rpm and make lot's of noise. look for case with
large fans 140mm or more. large fans move more air and are quiter.

or this one
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811103003

more xclio cases. buy it and put some more silent 140mm fans into front and back.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...348&Submit=ENE&Manufactory=8348&SubCategory=7

anyway better spend more money and time to find good cooling case. I wish I did that.
I have this one right now
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811119068
pretty cool, screwless design. youdon't have to screw all 4 screws to hold the HD or dvd rom.
 
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seems like a decent case the few things I don't like about it are preferences, like the front panel usb is on the side, i don't like that. It uses rails which is a plus making it easy to swap drives.

Other than that it seems to be laid out nicely in the inside, so as long as you have the right kind of fans you should be good.
 
I would get the 1st one lined, but I need to know the dimensions. Cant find them. mainly how tall and wide it is. The Thermatake Big Typhoon takes up a lot of space!
 
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144118

Try this man, I have this case, NO PROBLEMS, 500watt PS has caused no hassle and the 3.5" drive bays are removable at the flick of a lever. The stock (4) 80mm fans are multi-color(no they don't look hippie). Motherboard mounted very nice(very strong threads). It's roomy and very cool, both in temperature and looks, it's stable with the case feet out

A few things to be picky about:
the stock fans are a little loud, the front USB ports are a little weak when plugging in, 21" tall, have to remove 2 screws to remove PCI plate
 
INTELCRAZY said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811144118

Try this man, I have this case, NO PROBLEMS, 500watt PS has caused no hassle and the 3.5" drive bays are removable at the flick of a lever. The stock (4) 80mm fans are multi-color(no they don't look hippie). Motherboard mounted very nice(very strong threads). It's roomy and very cool, both in temperature and looks, it's stable with the case feet out

A few things to be picky about:
the stock fans are a little loud, the front USB ports are a little weak when plugging in, 21" tall, have to remove 2 screws to remove PCI plate
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"NOOOOOOO!" (like in an action movie, in slow motion jumping in front of ADA, taking him down, to keep him away from ordering apevia case ) :)
apevia(aspire) makes the worst PSUs ever. this psu has 16A on 12V1. your 8800gt will freeze on you all the time. I am sure 8800 gt will need much more than or at least 18A over 12V1.

I have the PSU which comes with the case:
really bad, voltage jumps all the time. games freeze for 3-5 seconds and then continue.
so I am ordering a different PSU. and this one will get sold.

I don't know how their case quality is. it can't be good. because this company specializes
in producing more trash for less cash.
 
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