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Here's another Antec case:
NSK 6500 (New Solution Series).

It's somewhat smaller and just a little lighter than TX 1088AMG, 0,8mm steelplate instead of 1,0mm.
But the depth in both boxes is the same 47,2 cm. And both have a removable HDD cage, in the TX 1088 it's a two part and in the NSK6500 it's a one part construction. (I hope I got it right as I have only seen pictures of the cases not the real ones)
NSK6500 has also a 5,25" to 3,5" adapter in the upper 5,25" drive cage.

PSU in TX is TruPower 480W, in NSK it's 430W.
They both cost about the same, price difference is just 2 or 3 euros.
NSK6500 will be available in my retailer later this month.

Here's a link to Antec's picture of the inside of NSK6500:
http://www.antec.com/images/400/NSK6500_i.jpg

This one is new, with handle, specific for silence with acoustic foam and aluminium, HD internal cases.



COOLER MASTER RC-1000

nice, but it won't take a full length card without mods.

btw-the trupower 480w supply is much better than the 430 smart power....

Thanks, gary

And so I bought the recommended TX 1088AMG, one of the few still available in our shops. The price was just under 100 euros.

Now I have to find somehow free time to put up a nice computer building shop. Still too much composing and arranging plus notating work to do.
Funny, I'm supposed to be retired but I'm more active than in past few years

Two computers waiting impatiently to get built. One into the TX 1088 and the other into a Titan 650.
Hm...Seems like no past time problems for a little while

happy hours

Cool ma man... we want to hear something, right?

You will have. At least something
( I hope it' will be nothing serious, though...)

stardust wrote:Now, is it possible to fir 3 15 DSP cards into P180 ?It seems that the HD case can be taken out, but there is still some metal frame in.

I just had the side off to take a peek. There are three case sections for the drives. The one at the top is fixed in. Then there's two removable ones that slide out sideways. The smaller middle one, holds 2 drives horizontally, has to be removed to fit the big Scope cards. I use the bottom one for my hards. I got 2 in there at the moment, system and audio. You can get 4 in there if you want stacked side by side vertically. So I could have 2 more in the bottom case and more upstairs, DVD,CD, in the fixed one at the top.

I have 2 big cards in there, near the CPU, and a UAD card in the third PCI slot which is lowest. You can get 3 big cards without a squeeze in there if necessary. Tons of room.

As you prob know the case is split into 2 separate sections. Motherboard area above and a power section and hard drive tunnel below. I got a coupla fans in each and the whole thing runs real cool. Absolutely silent, rubber shockers. I have never heard it even purr. That's mainly because it's in another room. No, it is very quite.

Does the job.

ns

stardust wrote:What you think NS ?

I think I've got it a bit wrong. The lighting in the room where the audio PC is ain't so good. I tend to build these things then completely forget about them.

3 cards won't fit, actually, with your intended mobo. Definitely the very bottom slot card would hit the fixed partition that's between the middle cage space and bottom cage. Possibly both 2 bottom cards. I got a DG965RY.



My 2 Scope cards are in the 2 together and the UAD in the bottom one.

Sorry for false alarm.

ns

the tx1050b will work.