Joined on 01/18/02
fantastic
Pros: As stated below, this is huge. I've had tons of cases, and modded many of those, and this is by far the largest. The two 120mm fan holes on the back are perfect for mounting a swiftech dual 120mm radiator with radbox.
Cons: This is small but a nuisance.. no removable mobo tray, so installing the mobo requires reaching through to screw it in which kind of stinks. Especially when 1 week after purchase you're removing it to install cpu water block and such!
Overall Review: The pre-drilled water tubing holes with rubber grommets are perfect for adding water cooling (which I did). Previous case was a coolermaster atc210 which was beautiful with high glass black, but all 80mm holes. I love having all of this extra room. I have my dual 74gb raptors mounted in the bottom along with my seagate 300gb and still room for another 2 drives down there.
Great Case
Pros: I've owned this case for awhile. I had a core 2 setup with 5 hds + optical for awhile (a Raid0 and a Raid5) - with a full size PCIe card - I just cut out the metal area in front of the middle bay to be able to moved the drives forward. A week ago, I rebuilt this box using only (1) 3.5" and (1) 2.5" WD black drive (will buy SSD soon) with a Z68-UD3H-B3 and i5 2500k proc. Just using the onboard Intel HD3000 now. Made it into a hackintosh/HTPC and it's fantastic. Mounted the power supply "upside down" as many have suggested. Cabling can be a bit tight, esp. with sata connectors that point parallel to your mobo, but with patience you can make things work. Again, I had this box loaded for bear for almost two years without a problem. The two included 80mm fans are FINE noise wise for HTPC purposes - my wife would normally notice something like that and hasn't at all so far.
Cons: Yeah, it's tight space, but bigger would mean.. bigger! The stick on dvd plate looks good and works except for one niggle.. Because it's attached to your drive, when you're reading a disc, it can amplify the vibration a bit- the metal stick on place inside the case. But who uses optical drives anyway nowadays? With my recent rebuild I almost just pulled the optical drive out altogether.
Overall Review: Going from (5) 3.5" drives to 1 2.5" (750gb WD Black) and 1 3.5" (2tb WD Black) and onboard video instead of the full sized xfx 8800 that was in there, I feel like I have tons of room now! If I were you, I'd either use onboard video and then just use the center drive cage (leaving the one behind the PS empty) or if you need a full sized video card, then leave the center one empty. But with some work you can fully stock this with 6 HDs. Actually, if you used all 2.5" drives, since you can fit (2) 2.5 in one 3.5" slot - you really could load this thing up if you so desired. But this isn't really meant to be a NAS case, now is it? =) I really do love this case, and let me tell you, I have a wasteland of cases downstairs. From Lian Li to Antec and onwards. One last big piece of advice: GET A MODULAR POWER SUPPLY!! I don't have one for this and wish I did. The less cables the better.
great drive so far.. came in WD Elements.
Pros: Very fast, very spacious so far.
Cons: none so far.
Overall Review: I just bought this as a WD Elements 2tb from another major etailer that you all know.. cracked open the case, and voila, christmas time, it was this exact drive for half the price - 64mb cache black and all (normally the elements come with one of their green drives). i'd heard they do that sometimes, but that's awesome. too bad its still only the 1 year elements warranty, but i cant complain.
it IS possible to use all 6 drive bays
Pros: This is a great case all around.. However, it would've been nice if they'd made it a bit deeper to mitigate the issue of 5.25" drives overlapping your power/memory connectors and using the middle drive cage with longer video cards.. This is a perfect case for HTPC and at a great cost. Having said that, there's a fix for the drive cage issue:
Cons: This is an easy fix folks which requires a dremel (could maybe use tin snips).. Where the center drive cage is, simply cut out a square in the front steel divider (not the black front of the case itself) which will allow the drives to stick out in the front. Basically when you're done the drives will touch the front of the case itself. This took me maybe 15min to do and allowed me to fit 6 drives in the case with one of the "longer" video cards (8800gts). It's snug, but it works.
Overall Review: I ended up with 3 750gb drives in the outer most bay, two 74gb raptors in the center bay (top and bottom of the cage, I left the center open to leave a little breathing room for the pci-e connector to the rear of my 8800gts). With a 5.25"=>3.5" converter you could fit another drive in under your dvd drive. You can make 7 (or even 8 if you went sans dvd drive) hard drives fit in this thing without too much pain. Although if you're building from scratch, I'd definitely just buy the now very cheap 1TB drives and leave the center bay open.
Just buy it already..
Pros: Highest rated LCD right now. . #1 in consumer reports. 120hz. Has all the features you need. I have one mounted with an Omnimount U3 Tilt mount, it's perfect in every way. Samsung support is great (per a previous Samsung DLP I have). Stop shopping tvs, stop comparing, just buy it.
Cons: None. Period.
Overall Review: I love the review below about the power button.. "I'll just have to adapt to the remote." Yes, time to come along to that whiz bang "modern" technology called the remote control.. ha ha ha.. too funny.
great drive for ps3
Pros: Fast drive, great price. Works great in PS3.
Cons: Worked great in my PS3 until I decided to take it out to install it in a new sata 2.5" external enclosure from r0sewill (aka new3gg). The cheap build quality of the enclosure shorted the drive and fried it. They did credit me the cost of the enclosure, but not the drive. But I digress.. There are no cons to this drive.
Overall Review: It's a 2.5" hard drive. It's 320gb. It's 7200rpm. By one of the main names in hard drive manufacturers. There's really nothing else to say. If you need an upgrade for your laptop or PS3, don't hesitate. The 500gb ones are only 5400rpm right now. Truth be told, 5400 is perfectly fine for a PS3. As evidenced by the stock PS3 drive which was 5400, I was able to watch stored videos with ease. I can honestly say that perceptively game saves/loads are not noticeably faster with this at 7200rpm versus the oem (hitachi I believe it was) at 5400.. If you're dual booting to linux on your PS3, then ok, it makes sense. Otherwise, I'd spend the extra for one of the 500gb/5400rpm drives (for PS3). For laptop, easy answer, buy this drive.