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by: JOSE on
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I built a Home Theatre PC with this case and a full ATX motherboard. I had enough room for my graphics card, hard drive, burner and a huge cooling fan for my P4 3.2GHz CPU. If you add any more it will be tight. Comes with everything you need. It runs quiet and it looks good. I just wish for the price you would get the LCD screen. I placed the long cables that people talk about under the motherboard as well. Overall a good buy. I would definitely buy another.
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by: RichardSkary on
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I wanted to make and HTPC that was also a capable gaming machine.It was tough to find something with adequate cooling and room for a large video card.
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Great price, room for full size video card (if you leave out the hard drive bay), great look that blends with any home theater setup.
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Had to remove one hard drive bay to fit my video card, Depending on your motherboard ram may hit the power/data cables coming from your hard drives mounted in the center bay,way too much wiring, The proprietary window for the media lab should have been a standard 3.5" bay so you could use your own.
Overall I am very happy.I ended up mounting the temperature LCD from my old display behind the media lab window.The case remains relatively cool with the following installed about 40C.
AMD QUADCORE 2.5ghz
8gb Corsair RAM
500gb Seagate Cheetah
EVGA GTX 260
installed one extra fan on top.
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by: Steve on
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I love the case. It has a lot of room and the size is just right for a Home Theatre setup. My only complaint is that the cables are too long on it is a hassle to get them tied up and out of the way.
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by: Irish on
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The pictures don't do it justice. There is *tons* of room in this case. For my application I went with a uATX mobo so I'd have plenty of room for drives and cables but still have good airflow since I'm planning to stack other stereo equipment on top of it. Even with all the fans that come with it's *still* super quiet and went together like a charm. I don't have a lot of run time on it just yet, so I'm most interested to see if I can get the LCD to play nice with Mythbuntu... may post again if I get it to work.
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by: Satin Slic on
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Wonderful box have had it for a year now without any problems. Id suggest upgrading the case fans, which are noisy, and mine only lasted a year. Overall a great case at a great price. Wish there was an IR receiver available for it.
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by: Anonymous on
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This is a great case! It doesn't include the flashier features like the VFD panel and remote but for the price it's a good deal.
There's a mile and a half of cable inside and everything's as standard as you can imagine; ATX power, LED/switch connectors, etc. They've even gone as far as stamped the metal near the screw holes to identify where the posts should go for which type of motherboard.
My biggest question when looking at this case online was, what's the deal with the CD drive cover thing? One reviewer here noted there's no way to push the CD drive's eject button. This is true, but the entire right hand panel swings down and clicks in and out at the top. Behind it are 3 - 5 1/4'' drive bays and your CD drive pokes out the spring loaded door in the top section when it's closed. You can just push-open the entire cover, revealing the drive and push its button. I just needed a desktop case and it's fantastic for that.
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I like this case, stacked everything on it (rack system and all), didn't even need to bust a finger to put it together. As someone said up there though, wish it had a floppy (not like we use them anymore). Surprisingly quiet for three installed fans!!
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I got this case to replace a defunked crap case that was given to me. Im using this as a small media server device in my stereo cabent. Im using an older Abit IC7 mother board with a EVGA 6800 gs Agp video card. 2 500 g Hds and a dvd burner. The install was easy.I took my time because ther external usb/firewire and audio cables are freaking 3 ft long.I couldnt believe it, Since i dont have the media lab option so I just stuffed the excess cable back into the front panel then routed the wire under the MB and to the connections on the MB.. worked very very well and Im pleased with it for now.. But i have to wonder why in the hell do they give you 3 feet of cable for a goofy 14 in internal area? I routed at cables and pluged everything in with no problems. I removed the 3.5 cage from the system because i didnt need it, and to tell you the truth im pretty sure that if you did use it for drives it would be a very tight fit. But the HD cage hold 2 drives easly and altho they hang over the
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There are no scratches on the back of my hands, as there is pleanty of room for installing hardware. The case feels solid and looks nice with the LED displays. Too bad there is no IR receiver, so the glass window area that should show the IR receiver instead displays the front of mounted hard drives.
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by: chemgeek on
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Large and heavy case that will accommodate ATX, mATX, and BTX mobos. The CD door works well and doesn't require double-sided tape. Cooling fans are surprisingly quiet. Plenty of room to work inside, although you have to temporarily remove the SATA cage every time you want to install a PCI card. If you forget to put the 3.5'' cage back in before you install the motherboard, you are not going to get it back in later. (I don't need it, so I left it out to make room to tie up cables inside. Heavy, sturdy build. The only downside is it is a bit large (deep and tall) but then you get more room to work inside and add expansion devices. Good value.
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by: Iceman on
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Very well designed, I put 3 s.a.t.a h.d's in it with no promblem, system is now running at 88 degrees (very cool) and this case is whisper quiet. Next to my Sony receiver it doesn't even look like a computer case. I thought the bag of hardware ( screws,ties ect) was a nice touch. Room for a big power supply and video card. Way to go T.D. and Thermaltake. The reason I didn't give it fives all around is I would like to have the option to put a floppy drive in and the price was a little high.
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by: TrippinEx on
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Great design. Case comes with 3 chasis fans. On one of the support struts you can mount two hard drives and have the included chasis fan blow across them. With the right power supply, this will be an extremely quiet system.
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by: 1phineday on
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This case is nicely designed and well put together. I put a large power supply in, large SLI Video Cards, no clearance problems and pleanty of room to tie up wiring. This case is of better quality than I expected.
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by: commander on
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Great case, who ever designed this knew what they were doing. The same size as my sony 7.1 reciever. The ONLY set backs are, no button to eject dvd/cd, but I asigned a hot key to do that.
And the price of the media lab LCD & Remote. But still for only 200 Plus change You have a Media Center PC that looks great, and is totaly quiet.
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by: erztech on
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Runs very cool. Fixed my cooling problems. Works and looks good. Well Built
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