It is getting closer to my rebuild cycle for my system and I am looking forward to ditching my SFF system. Now, having said that I love to hear some personal thoughts on some of the cases I am looking into at the moment. It is one thing to look at pictures and even read reviews, but even then I don't find them to be as insightful as the mid/long term personal experience with a case. Maybe it is me, but I think it takes more than a week to get the feel for a product.
I have had a SFF for at least two years now and prior to that I was working off a laptop. Needless to say I am a bit out of the case loop. I looked into Silverstone and they seem to be pretty popular. The TJ-07 seems to be the case du jour, but sporting a tag of $300+ I find that a hard pill to swallow. Especially since I won't have any hands-on time with it before I make my decision. The TJ-06 seems to be a nice selection but I am worried about noise levels too, at $129 locally it seems to be a very pleasing alternative. Finally I have the Lian-Li PC-V1100B that looks so pleasing, but nobody in the area seems to carry Lian-Li products so getting some hands on time with that makes me uneasy also.
I have noise concerns, at least a little bit. I don't want this new rig to sound like a plane in take-off, considering I spend around 10 hours a day in a room with it for work. I'll be running a Ultra X-Connect 500Watt PSU and an SLI video card system. (A guy has to play too.) Beyond that I am not sure about the rest of the system yet, it is still a few months away before purchase time. I am positive I won't be have a water cooling system. (It will always make me uneasy. Water + Computer +Oops = Lost Cash. I Oops a lot too.)
Picking a case seems to be more difficult than picking out the guts. Any insight into these cases would be great. Thanks.
I have had a SFF for at least two years now and prior to that I was working off a laptop. Needless to say I am a bit out of the case loop. I looked into Silverstone and they seem to be pretty popular. The TJ-07 seems to be the case du jour, but sporting a tag of $300+ I find that a hard pill to swallow. Especially since I won't have any hands-on time with it before I make my decision. The TJ-06 seems to be a nice selection but I am worried about noise levels too, at $129 locally it seems to be a very pleasing alternative. Finally I have the Lian-Li PC-V1100B that looks so pleasing, but nobody in the area seems to carry Lian-Li products so getting some hands on time with that makes me uneasy also.
I have noise concerns, at least a little bit. I don't want this new rig to sound like a plane in take-off, considering I spend around 10 hours a day in a room with it for work. I'll be running a Ultra X-Connect 500Watt PSU and an SLI video card system. (A guy has to play too.) Beyond that I am not sure about the rest of the system yet, it is still a few months away before purchase time. I am positive I won't be have a water cooling system. (It will always make me uneasy. Water + Computer +Oops = Lost Cash. I Oops a lot too.)
Picking a case seems to be more difficult than picking out the guts. Any insight into these cases would be great. Thanks.