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[Re] Corsair 540 Wind Mod 127 views 0 replies Posted by Unknown 8 years ago Oct 19, 9:11 pm

I hate Silverstone's low quality, but I like their positive pressure case cooling method. It works really well in the tinyest cases.

I like Lian Li's high quality all-aluminum cases, but their layouts seem to largely ignore the existence of smaller components and reduced need for batteries of raid drives.

However, they have one case, where the mainboard is installed upside down, enabling you to place your GPU cards at the top, where exhaust can exit out in the natural direction, without ever passing by your other components.

Though this case is in my cellar now, as I only build Mini ITX systems these days.

The last one, I built in a Silverstone SG08. wiring is a touch annoying, but everything needed fits splendidly and it runs quiet and cool at all times. 14 Liter volume only!

For the new one I'll build for SC next year (when Nvidia's Pascal architecture is out) will be in a customized (i.e. cut down in size, perforated and differently layed out) Lian Li TU200.  It will have positive air pressure cooling design and the layout will avoid perforating the top of the case, as I dislike the possibility of wrecking my computer by spilling a drink.

(I've been a professional system builder in the 90's, and while I moved on to other IT jobs, I always still enjoy the occasional computer project  :D