antec 900
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Geoff
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I just upgraded to this case as well from my previous Lian-Li. I bought the 900 when it had free shipping and $50 MIR, and I absolutely love it! It looks great, and the cooling is much better, I am now averaging about 30-32C idle (overclocked), whereas before it was around 40-45C idle.
Geoff
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What do you mean the size? There is plenty of room inside to work with, and I absolutely love the internal drive bays. I did a pretty good job of cleaning up the cables, although other people have done better with the same case.
epidemik
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...yeah that looks good but you can also do that with any case.
MatrixEVO
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It has a good amount of room. Geoff (OMEGA) has 4 HDDs, 2 Opticals, huge 2900XT, and his sound card panel, and there's still lots of room.
As for cable management, it comes with it's own little loops to put wires in.
Here's my cable management job, which didn't take too long, and was easy:
MatrixEVO
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Nice GT you've got there! Mine should arrive soon!
Thanks! The underside looks so good, it's nice and shiny, but I can't see it with the card faced that way! Any ideas on how to showcase the card? Maybe a mirror in the slot below? Haha.
Using a modular power supply - as Omega and MatrixEvo have done - greatly improves cable management in the 900. They both look great, BTW.
Here's mine:
Tomorrow, I'll receive a new 680i board from eVGA. I'm gonna really try to clean everything up when I reinstall the components.
lee18041990
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what fan settings everyone run it on? (low, med, high??)
Yeah, the Quad Silencer has a ton of cables. In retrospect, I wish I would've purchased a modular PSU.
I'm currently running everything @ medium.
I know most everyone has heard this from me, but I hate this case.
The hard drive cages suck the big one, the fans when set to High are way to loud, the bottom mounting power supply sucks, the documentation for the case is the worst I have ever seen, The way the front grills mount completely sucks.
I do like how much it cools down everything, I just think this case could have been so much better designed. The next version of this case will hopefully fix the many mistakes they made on the first try.
The hard drive cages suck the big one, the fans when set to High are way to loud, the bottom mounting power supply sucks, the documentation for the case is the worst I have ever seen, The way the front grills mount completely sucks.
I do like how much it cools down everything, I just think this case could have been so much better designed. The next version of this case will hopefully fix the many mistakes they made on the first try.
Kornowski
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They have another version of this case I'm sure, I think the only difference is that they can house WC internally and have holes pre-cut for the tubes...
Does it really make that much of a difference to the temps though?
I mean, I've achieved a similair thing with my case, it just took some time... (pics in sig are old, will update soon, the front 80mm fan is now a 120mm one)
Does it really make that much of a difference to the temps though?
I mean, I've achieved a similair thing with my case, it just took some time... (pics in sig are old, will update soon, the front 80mm fan is now a 120mm one
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Geoff
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I run everything on high, since I need to cool my overclocked components as best as I can