[Pc_Support] Re: Case w/ good airflow and PSU with good +12V?

[Thomas Carlson]

I saw an Aspire X-QPack series at Fry's today ... really quite nice for
around 100 bucks or so. 

These come in red, black, silver and blue from what I could tell and are
a little bit wider and deeper than the shuttle small form factor boxes.

The case reminded me of the Mondarch Hornet.

Also how is the btx form factor enter into this... wait until prices
drop and eventually replace the micro atx?

Thomas


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:04 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Jason Boxman <jasonb at edseek.com> wrote:
> > Since I'm going to buy a new mainboard and CPU, I think I'm
> > just going to make it a system.  Any thoughts on a quality
> > case with lots of airflow?  My current case completely
> > sucks for airflow, so it's not really appropriate for my
> > upgrade anyway.  (It tends to run cooler with the case side
> > off, a sure sign of problems.)
> 
> You know my opinion on boxes and airflow:  
> http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/08/small-enough-form-factor-pc.html
>  
> 
> Lots of MicroATX mainboards can be had for cheap (<$50) for
> older Socket-462 platforms.  Otherwise, I listed my favorite
> MicroATX for Socket-939 ($79) -- one of the few available
> right now.
> 
> > I'm also going to snarf up a new PSU.  While I wouldn't
> > mind a quieter PSU, one of average noise is fine since the
> > whole system will be in a noisy server room (relatively
> > speaking) which I can't quiet down in any reasonable way.
> 
> Other fans are typically more of an issue than the PS' fan.
> 
> 
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