Cooling and quieting the PC....

[az]

For all those interested, www.wassergekuehlt.de (german) has a watercooled 350W PSU. It's a modded Silentmaxx passively cooled PSU. Costs 230 eur, though

AZ

[mutz]

Right AZ, the CS601 is popular around here. You mean your case has a door that swings open? I had one like that once. Thought it was a good idea until I wanted to get inside it under the desk. Grrrr!

I find the outside design of the Lian Li ok, but inside excellent. What I especially like is that the case is much deeper and not quite so high as most other big towers.

The rest is individual preference.

[az]

I mean I have a door that swings open in front of the drives

I thought it was a good idea because of my little daughter (the case has locks on both the front door and the side panel), but it's just annoying. A slide-down door might be good though

AZ

[mutz]

...duh, in front of the drives? What for?

[VJ]

Originally posted by mutz
...duh, in front of the drives? What for?

Well, a friend of mine could have used a door in front of his VCR... His 2-3 year old (quite some years ago), once put a waffle in it - the waffle had the same shape and size as a VHS tape...
The player accepted it as a cassette, and took it all the way in; it didn't play back though....


Jörg

[az]

Yeah, and my parents' neighbours' kids used to put money, keys, etc. in the drive slots.

Advice: If you want to get a case with a lockable front door, get a slide-down version!

AZ

[mutz]

Aha! I thought you meant door for HDs, never occurred to me to lock up the CDs.

There's an ad that runs on TV here from time to time where some idiot takes a slice of salami out of a CD drive tray. Wonder how many kids got ideas from that piece of brain pollution...

[VJ]

Originally posted by mutz
There's an ad that runs on TV here from time to time where some idiot takes a slice of salami out of a CD drive tray. Wonder how many kids got ideas from that piece of brain pollution...

Yeah... they should know the laser is not the right frequency for heating up salami...


Jörg

[mutz]

Right... it would cook faster on an AMD hfs...