got round to fitting my akasa cooler today. I broke one of the push pins which meant within seconds of it booting up it would just cut out, as it wasnt contacting properly, but changed the position of the broken clip (turned heatsnk around so broken one at the bottom with less pressure on it) and its working fine! Not silent, but much quieter than my OEM intel one. I wanted a silent one but alas, it wouldnt fit in the case

quick pic of it in action


and yes, i know the cables are a mess!!

 

i got an artic 7 nice and quiet....

 

I just bought a new pc, ive got a huge cooler master cooler, ill have to post some pics of it

 

i bought a kick ass scythe one which was all copper and the size of a house brick. Ran at 10.7db, but i just assumed it would fit, and well, it didnt!So sold it to a mate for 35 quid. I told him I payed 50 for it but i only payed 38

 

im not surprised it didnt fit, doesnt look like much room to work with?

 

Ok heres mine



Fairly quiet and keeps my Q6600 cool

 

yeah its meant to be a media centre case (lying flat), but i have it standing on it's side instead. Its pretty tight in there lets put it that way, although on the front there is a giant handle which allows you to take the complete front off the case to give you more working room

 

you could easily buy another case with more room, assuming you know how to put a pc together.

 

but that would involve time, effort and MONEY

Seriously though dont see the point cos i like the look of it and its quite rare (never seen another picture of someone with the case), plus i will use it and abuse it and then build a 100% new one ground up once I move into a full time job (a couple os years away but oh well - at college atm)

btw i do like your cooling duct. Did it come with the CPU cooler?

 

I bought the pc pre built but id have thought it came with the cooler yeah

 

DAMN YOU! YOU'VE GOT ME LOOKING AT CASES NOW!!

 

antec 900 ... wont regret it ... big and roooomy fit loads in ...

 

i was looking at some jeantech case, just because the disk tray slides out upwards with a big neon shining on it, like something off star trek

 

Antec 900 is very good yeah, ive got one.

ONLY bad thing about it is because it has so many fans it gets dusty after about 1 month or 2.

If you do get a bigger case remember that you may also require longer wires because the power supply will be further away from your components

 

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You do realise that will hinder the air flow on the fan on the psu there ?

If it's sucking air into the psu and then blowing out the back it will have only half it's efficiancy, same if it's blowing air down into the case.

 

The psu one is sucking air out, and the cpu cooler is obviously blowing it away hence the ducting which leads to the mesh on the case.
I cant see how any of that is negative really? but anyways ive checked the temps and there fine