Cool for high schoolers, maybe. I guess if you're in to black lights and mushroom posters.

About the RF noise, how come more and more product get on the western markets that totally are against the FCC's (and FCC-like organisations in western countries other than the US) rules? Did they all retire? Another bush legacy?

I just hope the people taking care of keeping contaminated foods off the market don't also completely retire, although there's some evidence in that direction too.

When you say full height drives, I take it you mean the 1" high hard drives rather than half inch high?

Or do you mean the original half height...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_bay#Full-height

(look at the IBM drive in the picture to see what I mean).

Hands up who remembers 20 meg 3.5" full height (i.e. 2 to 3 inch high) MFM hard drives.

Rob

I think it is interesting that you guys can do hardware reviews on some cool and, occasionally, expensive equipment, but you still don't have a decent camera to take pictures with...

what a terrible case :-(

I own this case. Its damn good, temps drop 3-5 degrees over an antec 900 if you compare both using full fan speed, its quiter with the big fan, the external hdds are fine (i have two), dust isnt a problem (had for over a month now - none at all). I have a 4870x2 in this thing, overclocked to the moon (max catalyst overclock), a q9550 at 3.4ghz on stock cooling running solid and 8gb of ddr2 1200mhz ram, and no probs.

The only complaint I have is psu airflow, with psu's that have large 12-14cm fans having much of their airflow blocked.

Anyone who says its just for show isnt a real enthusiast, Ive had it at two lans already and no probs at all, just keep your glass of scotch a little further away than normal

Ohh, and for anyone who has tall coolers, there is plenty of clearance for such things, but seeing as im going either water or phase change soon I didnt bother.

Cheers,
Shadow Concept

Hi, Paul,

I think that you and many commenters here are not the intended audience for this enclosure. It was not designed primarily for cooling purposes. It was designed with hardware enthusiast in mind that like to overclock while showing off there components, extreme case lighting, and cable routing skills. Thus those that love extreme case modding, but, don't have the time or skills to accomplish it themselves, are the ones being targeted by this product. Have not any of you seen the modded SEGA Dreamcast with an x86 PC in the case?

Again it was not intended for some one that just wants a cool running case. Also, the intended buyers regularly clean and dust their cases to keep them pristine for OCing and exhibition. In addition, for reasons having to do with electronics and static electricity not playing well together, it should not be placed on the floor.

Besides, as I mentioned earlier it is intended to be a show piece for exhibition. The target user would not place it on the floor to be hidden away or obstructed from the admiring or envious view of his/her friends.

Best regards,
Daniel R.

A computer case should be a Faraday cage to keep RF noise from disturbing other electronic devices. This thing might be a little bit interesting if it had a grounded copper mesh around the outside.

this case is terrible. how can you give it 7/10? 140 pounds is a seriously hardcore case, that kind of money for a case its clearly pitched at the high end market for people and testers with some serious hardware and those who may change components lots - who buys a 140 pound case and fits a 40 quid 8600GT to it? no one......people with much more realistic hardware, large powerful graphic cards? forget it. you buy it to avoid peltier? well that means you want serious air cooling yes? wrong, because you cant fit the biggest best air coolers on....im sorry but its dumb. a high end case, that is horribly ill suited to high end components that can generate the sort of heat the case is supposed to be able to dissipate in the first place. am i the only one who thinks it looks cool, but is incredibly retarded?

There's a reason for an enclosed case...so your TV doesn't look like a just fuzzy snowy mess :-)

I'm surprised you didn't think about testing that part of it...

why don't they just sell a power button and the fan?

Oddly enough I found something that might compliment this cagey thing. Sans Digital makes an external cage for HDDs. (5 disk HDD rack)

I didn't get HDD rack for the same reason I dislike the skeleton, the innards are exposed. but it would make a cheap solution for expanding a file server.

just you let you know you might want to point readers to custom pc mag, they already reviewed this and i must say the mag is a bloddy good read!