Mini ATX Cases - check this baby out !!!

[Ferry]

If what you need is a small web server, you should give this a try...    :-D  :-P  :lol:

Saluditos,

Ferrán.

[bhoggett]

Not exactly a Mini ATX case, but I kinda like  this one. If the price wasn't quite so outrageous, I'd seriously consider it for my next system.

[Naeem]

looks butt ugly man!  though it sounds (doesnt sound ?) like it works a treat.

V. expensive though. I can only imagine they make the chasis out of platinum or something :-)


Or perhaps its laden with heat-conducting gold like the Mclaren F1.

[jeffimix]

Yeah, reading the site sounds like the 'heat pipes' are gold plated copper, not to mention the whole case is one giant heatsink.

[bhoggett]

Naeem wrote:

looks butt ugly man!

Agreed. It works like a giant heat sink and looks like one. Still, the looks I'd be able to live with...

though it sounds (doesnt sound ?) like it works a treat.

It does indeed. Think about it: no fans at all, even with monster CPU and GFX card. No noise and no dust. *sigh*...

V. expensive though.

That's the problem. It's way out of my budget, however much I'd love to have one, even though I expect to spend a fair amount on my new system.

So realistically, having decided I want a quiet understated black case with a good build (so no Xasers or Diablos etc.), I'm looking at the  Lian-Li PC-6070B as my first choice, and since that seems hard to locate in the UK (the silver version is very common), the   AccoustiCase C6607 B as my fallback. After that I'll just have to choose my PSU, hard and optical drives and cooling system with care te get as little noise as possible. At least both look nicer than the Zalman.  :-)

[Naeem]

why not give up the chase and get a small form factor Hush PC or something?

[bhoggett]

Because my main system is required to do a whole bunch of jobs - that's just my pattern of use - and a small form factor would be very limiting. Although I want it to be quiet - which would be a huge change from the current environment - I'm looking for a fully versatile solution. The Hush PC doesn't match my required specs: AMD64, SATA, good graphics card etc. Basically, you sacrifice components for space, and I don't want to do that.

I think I can build a system that does everything I want, but the drawback is that I'll have to chase up a lot of components from a lot of different suppliers, rather than buy everything in one big bundle.

[Naeem]

Gotchya.

Personally though I think CPU's are way too fast nowadays.  A Hush PC could handle everything I do on my Pentium 4 3.06 Ghz setup currently.  And it would look cute and not at all out of place next to my Plasma TV.

In fact if anything I would get more use out of it as I would use it as a PVR too, and also the CD / DVD  drive would get a lot more use.  For TV / Video work you dont need a super hot graphics card.

I am intrigued though, what use do you put your beats of a machine to?   3D modelling work?  Any major ass-kick games out there that demand such performance?  That is probably where a HUSH pc would fall over latest games, though it would meet 90% of current games requirements (all need direct X 9.0b + P III 700 MHz +), it wont have much shelf life.

For me I am not too fussed my XBox is about for that kind of nonsense.

[B00tDisk]

Naeem wrote:
Gotchya.

Personally though I think CPU's are way too fast nowadays.  

Yeah, because nothing sucks more than having lots of CPU power.  Everyone, abandon whatever you're using right now and switch to this:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=787

I am intrigued though, what use do you put your beats of a machine to?   3D modelling work?

I do.  I still play with VistaPro and a few other things like that.  Additionally, having lots of CPU power makes things like encoding video go much, much faster (although an MPEG2 card helps a lot in that area).

  Any major ass-kick games out there that demand such performance?  

Yes.  Half-Life 2 will need loads of horsepower to draw what can only be called cinematic graphics, as will DOOM-III (I tried running the latter on my PIII/700...let's just say the results were...slow).  As of right now, I'd say Far Cry really beats up the CPU and graphics card - but that's a good thing.  Tech needs to advance.