im thinking of upgrading to this:

[Giy]

but id like afew opinions 1st, good or bad

if the image is to big can some 1 rezise it for me

[RipperRoo]

sorry, tryed to resize it and lost your link
can you post the text from the page instead of a screenshot of it?

[Giy]

no but i can link the screenie

here

[RipperRoo]

very nice system your goiing to have there, im not an intel fan myself but i certainly aggre with your choice of case, I have 2 in that style myself, and i know of at least 2 other staff members who also use the soho file server paterned case.
oh, and that graphics card kicks ass as well

[Giy]

ok thanks, i was thinking of getting 1gig of ram but do you really need that much.. im not so sure

those cases do they make alot of noise?? as the one i have now sounds like a helicopter about to take off also is that PSU good enough..

[RipperRoo]

they aint the quietest case out there, but there are ways to reduce the noise, putting speed reduction cables on your case fans will help - maybe even replace them with ultraquiet fans.

IMO 330watts is a little underpowered for todays systems, but antec have a good rep as makers of stable psu's, so as long as you dont fill it full of drives and burners you should be ok.

if you like the case style but not the size of the psu, theres always the option of getting an Antec Plusview 1000 4x5.25 5x3.5 ATX Tower Case with Side Window, this is about £60 (£58.24 inc VAT from ebuyer.com ) but comes without psu. the case is a little bigger but a little sexyer as well.


For a psu i would either go for a vantec stealth (as reviewed Here by NUTNDUN) or an Antec PSU True Blue 480w Blue Led Fan



they are not the cheapest out there, but both are quality power supplys, and with a window on your case you want something that looks the part as well

[Giy]

i have a dvd drive, CD burner 2 HD and all the usual usb rubbish, so maybe a slightly better psu is in order..


any other cases you recomend ?

[RipperRoo]

hum, i hesitate to recomend anything i havnt had in my hands, but for a similar style of case chieftec are good, and are available in a wide range of colours.
Li-Lan ally cases are very nice (cool as well) but can be easy to damage.

also built on the same basic design as the chieftec and antec cases (soho file server) is thermaltake, a little more money but a few more features, and about as far away from the 'square white box' of most pc's as you can get. this one shown here is the NOC Thermaltake XaserIII V1000J Blue with Silver Front & Window Kit Aluminium Case No PSU (a few pennys under £100 from www.novatech.co.uk) this is feature packed and designed for cooling. it has a built in 'HardCano unit' fan controler to adjust the speed of upto four fans, lcd display, USB, IEEE 1349 FireWire, Audio Input/Output ports on the front of the case. these extra features bought seperatly are going to cost you an extra £50 on top of a standard case, so the thermaltake represents excelent vaule for money and is a realy striking case.

[rastagard]

In regards to the noise issue, I have the Antec Plusview 1000, with 5 fans not including the 2 fans on the PSU, and it really isn't noisy at all. I keep the box angled with the window facing me so I kin see all the purtiness, and I hardly ever notice any noise. I don't have any kind of fan controller, so I would imagine they are all running full speed all the time. I have used all Antec fans, 3 with leds and 2 without, so maybe they tend to run quieter.


I am really sold on this case, it was an easy case to work with and it has all the features I could want. It was on the higher side costwise, but still not too expensive considering the quality.

[Giy]

ok thats great thanks! i'll check those out

[Giy]

rastagard is this the same case that you have ?

EDIT:

i quite like this.

[RipperRoo]

rasta's case is this one as seen previously

[Giy]

ahaha ok!

so i have to decide between that and the one below i think it exactly the same as the one you posted but with out the window

[RipperRoo]

yup, looks to be, i think its got that bit more in the temp sensor/disply though.

[Giy]

yeh i noticed that too, i think i will go for that case and get a 400W psu, hopefuly that will be enough


thanks for the help!