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| 196861 | 2003-12-03 08:15:00 | does anyone of a company or reseller that makes windowed computer cases? they are cool. | Megaman (344) | ||
| 196862 | 2003-12-03 08:22:00 | Coolcases (homepages.ihug.co.nz) | Jen C (20) | ||
| 196863 | 2003-12-03 19:18:00 | What about one of these? (www.thermaltake.com) or these? (www.thermaltake.com) |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 196864 | 2003-12-03 19:28:00 | Go to SearchNZ (http://www.searchnz.co.nz) and type in Olympic or Icute. Mine's here (www.hostnz.co.nz) These brands are superb value for money. Mine cost just a 100 bucks including the nice 350w psu, plus a bit more for the cold-glow neon light, |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 196865 | 2003-12-03 19:50:00 | The case I've been considering is a 3R case - Neonlight 3rsystem.co.kr You can buy windowed sidepanels from ascent, who also sell the case, conveniently. Reasonable price, with a 400w psu, I think... http://www.ascent.co.nz If anyone knows anything bad about these cases, would appreciate the heads-up... Lizard |
Lizard (2409) | ||
| 196866 | 2003-12-03 20:35:00 | highly recormend the thermaltake ones www.thermaltake.com, ive got a xaser III looks a bit gay and is real heavy but it has 7 fans + 2 on the p/s and is still very silent. Good purchase if you can handle the high price of them. Budda |
Budda (2736) | ||
| 196867 | 2003-12-03 20:43:00 | as to where to find windowed cases, i would try www.overclockers.co.nz (?) have lain li ones www.oemcomputers.co.nz have thermaltake ones |
Budda (2736) | ||
| 196868 | 2003-12-03 21:40:00 | Was speaking to our IT fella at work about them a few days ago. Full metal cases keep x amount of whatever sort of emissions within the case whereas ones with windows (not the Microsoft type) let a certain amount of those emissions leak through the window. I don't recall the type of emissions...but they cause interference (I suppose to FM devices like cordless phones for example). Probably won't be enough to cause a person harm but pehaps you could get back to us in a year or so and let us know if you glow in the dark? Yeah, I agree the window looks cool but if having it degrades something else around your computer then perhaps you need to decide if it's worth the bother to look cool. Good looks are one thing but don't actually count for anything in performance. |
oggy (1250) | ||
| 196869 | 2003-12-03 21:53:00 | Ok, the window doesn't do anything to degrade performance. but you've got a very good point in bringing up the EMR (Electro-Magnetic Emissions - quite different from the Nocturnal ones of course). My opinion is that as long as you have the window shielded in some way, either by metallic imbedments within the window perspx/glass/whatever, or have at least a bit of metal shielding across it, as per the case I use, then it's not going to be a problem. Some more in-depth info from my favourite reviewer here (www.dansdata.com) and here (www.dansdata.com). ps - In my opinion no need whatsoever to go for a fancy aluminium box - the cost really doesn't warrant it, no matter how gorgeous those Lian Li units are |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 196870 | 2003-12-03 22:31:00 | 7 Fans!. Jeez. Do you have it bolted down incase it takes off and starts hovering around the room? Oh I suppose hover distance is limited by the length of the power cable huh? | oggy (1250) | ||
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