Computer case (again)

straat10 · Post by **straat10** » Tue Nov 14, 2006 1:04 pm

I was concidering buying the Sonata II case for my new computer when I came across the Antec P150. I was wondering wether anyone has been using this case with a Pulsar II card and how does it compare to the Sonata II (noise etc).

Thanks,
Yuval

arela · Post by **arela** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 10:50 am

Antec should be ok (i was close to buy one)

wayne · Post by **wayne** » Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:26 pm

Antec is fine here.

jimmypage · Post by **jimmypage** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:41 pm

HI,
Hi have 3 scope card.much hot

Have get one acrilic case with more fan,my last allumin case is much hot,with acrilic case the temperature is wery well and the 5 fan's get much cooling see this here:

http://digilander.libero.it/sunset070/daw.htm

soul-synthesis · Post by **soul-synthesis** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 4:51 pm

go for the P180.

I'm currently in the process of rebuilding my system with one. I'm going to post a thread on my build soon. my main goals are to build a quiet and cool system.

water cooled, a64, 3x p2 cards, 4 HDDs etc

Shroomz~> · Post by **Shroomz~>** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 5:26 pm

Water cooling + Pulsars ..... you're a brave man !!!! :¬]

soul-synthesis · Post by **soul-synthesis** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:11 pm

heheh, no. Just water cooling the cpu and gpu.

i'm just cooling the 3x pulsar2s with low speed 120mm fan.

UsedManateeSalesman · Post by **UsedManateeSalesman** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:57 am

Watercooling is not a bad idea actually. Hrm. Could be a good project for a case/mobo upgrade in the hypothetical future. All my cash has turned into creamware for the moment, freaking glad it works on my motherboard. Need to do some temperature tests, though. I may put in another lowspeed fan myself. I am using an Antec Sonata. It's a good case, and quiet as advertised. I'd rather keep the stuff on the warmer side of the safe scale and keep things quiet than have a jetliner with 6+ fans going constantly (had that before too... good grief).

Right now I've still got the side panel off and I can hear fans and hard drive clicking and it is driving me mad. I should look in the mirror and admit that the problem is myself!

So who has experience with watercooling, using flexible/modifiable conduits rather than X made for Y application? Anyone should be concerned with leakage (duh) but I am sure running a few cold water strips down each side of a card could only be mild rocket science.

bassdude · Post by **bassdude** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:47 pm

If you got $$$ get the Zalman case! Saw one in action the other day. Looks extremely sexy and zero fans. Awesome.

thomashenrydavies · Post by **thomashenrydavies** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:18 am

Water cooling is fine, but it doesn't solve the issue of HD noise.

Besides, I don't think water cooling is needed these days anyway. A quiet CPU fan is so quiet as to be undetectable. On the new Core2Duo chips, even the stock intel fan is basically silent. Mobos and graphics cards are all available fanless. In most systems, the PSU is responsible for 90% of the noise - you can get fanless or semi fanless ones these days.