EEthanShire
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A tight squeeze, but looks rather neat.
Now this is a computer case!
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A tight squeeze, but looks rather neat.
oooooh noooo... I hust nuked my game disk! 
Now that's called "Originality"! not just taking off with someone else's ideas like seen with the premade supposedly? custom styled cases. Who knows the next real custom case may be a server case made out of a washing machine. "guaranteed to keep your drives clean free of bugs".
Now that's called "Originality"! not just taking off with someone else's ideas like seen with the premade supposedly? custom styled cases. Who knows the next real custom case may be a server case made out of a washing machine. "guaranteed to keep your drives clean free of bugs".
A tight squeeze, but looks rather neat.
Hehehe. I like it!
I wonder if the nobs and buttons work on the system. And if the led screen shows the temps and such.
The only thing I would have changed on that is where the cd is. I would not want to have to open the door to change cd's.
Well just take a look at how many premade cases have swing out doors on those. The last build here was initially a move of everything from one case to one with better air flow with twin doors that swung out. That can get annoying at times when burning data disks and the tray plows those open if a program is set to auto eject.
epidemik
Active Member
Well just take a look at how many premade cases have swing out doors on those. The last build here was initially a move of everything from one case to one with better air flow with twin doors that swung out. That can get annoying at times when burning data disks and the tray plows those open if a program is set to auto eject.
Thats one of my hates. My current case has a door on it, I took it off. I just hated it. I was always opening the darn thing to change cd's and such.
You can see the AeroCool has two not one that swings out both ways. Others have single doors that run all the way up the front and swing like a cabinet door there.
Supposedly it helps keep dust out of the optical drives? oh really?! With the door or doors closed the front intake will have a tendency to pull air down from the top behind the door! The first case on the thread looks quite well like that one also has a full face type front door there too.
Supposedly it helps keep dust out of the optical drives? oh really?!
With the door or doors closed the front intake will have a tendency to pull air down from the top behind the door! The first case on the thread looks quite well like that one also has a full face type front door there too.lol PC Eye. I have mine sitting on top of my desk. My only complaint is that to do anything inside--adjust the fan speeds, play with cables, so on--I have to hunch over my desk, lean around my monitor, and duck my head and arm into the case. After class or work (I'm hucking around either a Toshiba laptop and 30 pounds of books or many, many cases of beer and ice cream), when my back is killing me, this is usually enough to discourage me from tinkering.
Once I use the EVGA Step-Up to get into a G92'd GTS, and when a second such GTS is affordable, I'll be upgrading my motherboard to better handle SLI. By the end of this month, the old PATA WD drive will be one, replaced by a faster (and neater internally) SATA150 Raptor 175GB. All the HD I'll ever need, hardly use 80GB now. Somewhere along the way I'll install another 2GB of memory and XP Pro x64, or Vista if MS ever freakin` decides to make it stable. The downside is that I have to get everything done by the start of summer, so I can start saving and have enough cash to live on for when I start law school next fall.
And then, three years later, I will have a nice shiny SLI'd, glowing rig so I can run Office super-nice. My menus will have 16x Anisotropic filtering and hardcore antialiasing on my fonts, bee-yotch!
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
Anyways, speaking of cases, I like this one 
It's compact, fits mostly full sized components (besides matx mb of course), has relatively good cooling, and doesn't cost a fortune. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get it for my next build.
It's compact, fits mostly full sized components (besides matx mb of course), has relatively good cooling, and doesn't cost a fortune. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna get it for my next build.
A mni tower case is even more cramped once you try to install anything on besides the basics seen on any micro board. But if you are looking for premade models you go through a ton of those at a few vendors like xoxide.com or like the cube types seen at http://www.directron.com/cubecase.html
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
I've looked around quite a bit already and have narrowed my choices to the Lanbox Lite, SG01, SG03 and Microfly. However, out of all of those, it seems that the Lanbox Lite has the most room, while still being easy to carry around (and it's the cheapest).
Did you say "carry around"? ThermalTake has a pair of cases with carrying handles included on them seen on the page at http://www.xoxide.com/small-form-factor-cases.html
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
Well not like moving it around to lanparties all day. I'll have to take this to college so it'll be nice to throw in the car, or plane if I go really far. I like the simplicity of the lite, as to the curvy wavy and overstating look of the original lanbox.
I'm on another thread now where someone wants to setup an old desktop to run strictly off of a battery source where you would pracitically have to carry a good Sears Diehard around with you! A case similar to what you are looking at there won't hold any battery pack that would handle the initial draw at startup as well as run a system for any lengthy period of time.
The idea of browsing before being set on one is to have that last look before oridering and then seeing something else and going... ! It was right after ordering and moving everything into the AeroCool case that the Antec 900 made it's appearance in 2006. I finally caught a sale this summer to see that put to use here!
The idea of browsing before being set on one is to have that last look before oridering and then seeing something else and going...
! It was right after ordering and moving everything into the AeroCool case that the Antec 900 made it's appearance in 2006. I finally caught a sale this summer to see that put to use here!
diduknowthat
formerly liuliuboy
When I said "throw in the car" i meant transporting it, not running it off batteries
I know what you meant there. What I was referring to was someone trying to run a desktop strictly by battery where you would need something like a car battery to provide the adequate amps.
The draw from a desktop even on an old system will be heavier then seen with a laptop. Just look at how long the batteries last there. 4hrs.
You will have to do some reading to catch up on that thread seen at http://www.computerforum.com/99242-battery-computer-motherboard.html
What I was referring to was someone trying to run a desktop strictly by battery where you would need something like a car battery to provide the adequate amps. The draw from a desktop even on an old system will be heavier then seen with a laptop. Just look at how long the batteries last there. 4hrs.
You will have to do some reading to catch up on that thread seen at http://www.computerforum.com/99242-battery-computer-motherboard.html
I built my comp and I like looking inside but it doesnt excite me that much. It does however excite those who have never built a PC and automatically look at me as some sort of computer guru.
I try to tell them its pretty simple to set up your basic comp but they would rather pay for parts and give me a couple of cases of beer or 100 bucks to build it for them.
As for the case shown by the OP, I find it a very beautiful work or art however, keeping it clean and the possible fire haz from the washi paper side panel does bother me.
Remember "Murphy's Law"
I try to tell them its pretty simple to set up your basic comp but they would rather pay for parts and give me a couple of cases of beer or 100 bucks to build it for them.
As for the case shown by the OP, I find it a very beautiful work or art however, keeping it clean and the possible fire haz from the washi paper side panel does bother me.
Remember "Murphy's Law"
That may not a paper used in the side panel but a light colored wood on one side. I wouldn't say painted but more like it was stained a light color to give it that appearance. It would reasonable to think that someone took the heat factor into account when selecting the materials to be used if the case is anything more then a show piece.