I liked my Antec Nine Hundred. The case looked good and it moved a ton of air. Unfortunately the more stuff I put in my system the harder it was to work with. The case was just too damn small and it was way to hard to work with. The other thing that pissed me off was that all my HDD heat went straight onto my GPUs. I finally decided to try out the Cosmos and I have to say, I love this case. As others have said the build quality is excellent. What I like most about it is the damn size. The case is MONSTROUS! As you can see here it clearly dwarfs my Mac which I previously thought to be large.
But what I really like is the space and layout INSIDE the case. Here's what my old case looked like
It's hard to tell from the lighting but the cabling was a mess and there was no good way to do it. It really bothered me. Here's the same hardware in my new Cosmos.
Much better. Clean and easy to work with. I'm really happy with it.
One of my main concerns with this case was all the bad reviews saying it does a poor job with air cooling. I found this to be true. My normal overclocks became unstable in the Cosmos. When I looked around I saw that the fans that came with the system barely moved any air at all. It's clear that they sacrificed performance by shooting for silence. I took my Scythe SFDB fans out of my old Nine Hundred and swapped them into the Cosmos and it immediately made a HUGE difference. I'm stable again and I can't really tell a huge difference in temps between the Nine Hundred and the Cosmos.
With the same fans that were in my Antec Nine Hundred the Cosmos is significantly quieter. The noise is now barely noticable vs. slightly obstructive.
Overall I'm really happy with this case choice. If you're on the fence on this one do it, just put better fans in it.
But what I really like is the space and layout INSIDE the case. Here's what my old case looked like
It's hard to tell from the lighting but the cabling was a mess and there was no good way to do it. It really bothered me. Here's the same hardware in my new Cosmos.
Much better. Clean and easy to work with. I'm really happy with it.
One of my main concerns with this case was all the bad reviews saying it does a poor job with air cooling. I found this to be true. My normal overclocks became unstable in the Cosmos. When I looked around I saw that the fans that came with the system barely moved any air at all. It's clear that they sacrificed performance by shooting for silence. I took my Scythe SFDB fans out of my old Nine Hundred and swapped them into the Cosmos and it immediately made a HUGE difference. I'm stable again and I can't really tell a huge difference in temps between the Nine Hundred and the Cosmos.
With the same fans that were in my Antec Nine Hundred the Cosmos is significantly quieter. The noise is now barely noticable vs. slightly obstructive.
Overall I'm really happy with this case choice. If you're on the fence on this one do it, just put better fans in it.