Phantom Case meets its match.

racing87stang · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:50 am Post subject: Phantom Case meets its match.

well My generic(but highly modified Phantom Case) will meet its match with my new 850w PC P&C PSU. It fits perfectly covering every sq CM of the top of my case. (literally) Lucky for me Im using a rather non-deep DVD+RW Drive and it fits perfect.

Only downside, I wont be able to water cool my comp. At least not with this case. So Im in the market as it were.... and was peeping over to check out the new Gigabyte Case. Since it has dual 120mm case fans in the rear to start with I could simply mount the radiator there.

Anyone with this case have any Cons, or any bad reviews?
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2old2care · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:06 am Post subject:

I got an Aurora with a dual 120 mounted in it. No major complaints. Definetely more pluses than minuses IMO. It's piccies are in the "2O's projects" thread in case gallery, both before and after water.

http://www.giga-byte.com/Peripherals/ChassisDefault.htm

They do however make a couple newer models since I got mine. I think I like that Poseiden model, myself.
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

those are nice cases.
Another one I am liking is the CoolerMaster Stacker cases. Then new ones have dual 120mm fans at the top similar to the gigabyte cases but the psu mounts in the bottom. I wish mine was the newer ones. But it isn't and I do have my huge psu mounted in the top of the case. It took a little longer screws to get it mounted in there but I did it. Now to just fabricate a spacer for it so it looks a little less ghetto. But what other case can you mount a dual 120mm radiator at the front of the case and still have room for the optical drive and hdd cage?
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I'm looking at the Stacker myself. The only thing I don't care for about the new one is the door, but I can probably work around that.
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:48 pm Post subject:

the door?

OH you mean the new stacker 830. that looks like a POS! They got rid of alot of the stuff that made the original so good.

the one I like is the stacker 810 and the one I have is the stacker STC-T01.
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racing87stang · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:48 pm Post subject:

well I ordered me a silver aurora 3d case. With window already installed since it looks very beefy, will cover up the PSU nicely, and looks better than anything I could do to the Un-windowed case. (although I think I should have gotten the black model (I may have to switch it)
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2old2care · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 3:12 pm Post subject:

Windowed? The grate on the side is one of the best features when you put the rad on the 2-120 openings. All you have to do is use a paintbrush on the grate and on the input of the rad and it cleans right up. Also, the airflow is mostly side to rad, which is slick.
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