Well I got my new case Tuesday and I was going to assemble it during the holidays but I couldn't wait and had to put it together. I wanted something that was more compact and portable than my current case and after a lot of searching around decided on this one. Another possibility was the Scout case by Coolermaster but what finally sold me on this one was the aesthetics. It doesn't look like your traditional case, it almost looks like a piece of test equipment or something, any how I just liked it.
Since I rushed it the wiring looks like a spaghetti monster, will fix when i have more time. That 135mm cooler looks right at home in there:
Here's some comparison pics to show how small this box really is:
So compact, it looks like my lunch box:
Wiring this thing with two video cards was horrendous, I had to remove the hard drive cage permanently to fit the wires. The HD is mounted just below the cd rom. It didn't help having an oversize monster 1050 watt psu in there. I could have went with a smaller psu and kept the hard drive cage but I got such an awesome deal on the PSU I couldn't pass it up.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817814010
With a black Friday deal and a cupon code I got that psu shipped to my door from Newegg for $121.00.
I know Asus doesn't get a lot of love around here but I like them. This is the first board I ever had with their ROG connect and I think its awesome. I like being able to over clock it, check the hardware status right from my laptop. I can even update or replace the bios from it, super easy.
With the fans running full blast it gets loud, you can actually feel it move air around the immediate vicinity. But I use head phones so I knew it wouldn't be an issue for me. I was worried about temps getting too high being that everything is jammed so tight in there and having no rear exhaust fan, but after playing BLOPS for a few hours the cpu never got above 45C and the graphics cards hit about 43C, which was just about that same when all this junk was installed in my full tower case. I wound up paying only $49.00 for this case so I cant really have any complaints. It's not pretty, but it serves its purpose.
Since I rushed it the wiring looks like a spaghetti monster, will fix when i have more time. That 135mm cooler looks right at home in there:
Here's some comparison pics to show how small this box really is:
So compact, it looks like my lunch box:
Wiring this thing with two video cards was horrendous, I had to remove the hard drive cage permanently to fit the wires. The HD is mounted just below the cd rom. It didn't help having an oversize monster 1050 watt psu in there. I could have went with a smaller psu and kept the hard drive cage but I got such an awesome deal on the PSU I couldn't pass it up.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817814010
With a black Friday deal and a cupon code I got that psu shipped to my door from Newegg for $121.00.
I know Asus doesn't get a lot of love around here but I like them. This is the first board I ever had with their ROG connect and I think its awesome. I like being able to over clock it, check the hardware status right from my laptop. I can even update or replace the bios from it, super easy.
With the fans running full blast it gets loud, you can actually feel it move air around the immediate vicinity. But I use head phones so I knew it wouldn't be an issue for me. I was worried about temps getting too high being that everything is jammed so tight in there and having no rear exhaust fan, but after playing BLOPS for a few hours the cpu never got above 45C and the graphics cards hit about 43C, which was just about that same when all this junk was installed in my full tower case. I wound up paying only $49.00 for this case so I cant really have any complaints. It's not pretty, but it serves its purpose.
I usually keep one stock and use the other for OC.
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