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Overall a great little case |
June 17, 2010 |
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Steve
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Got the silver/black rather than the black/silver in the pic, which actually looks better I think. Also came with a 400W PSU instead of the 500W ordered, but X-Case will refund the difference and 400W is fine for me.
I relocated an old Sempron based Mesh computer which was in a huge case. It all fits....just. I moved an ATI Radeon 9700 AGP card, IDE HDD and DVD-RW. The IDE ribbon cables were the hardest thing to route without trapping them or blocking the CPU fan.
Make sure you get the front panel cables (LEDs, power buttons) in the right way 1st time because you won't want to take it all apart to get at them again!
The case itself is a little flimsy and noisy, but as a PC for my 4yo daughter it works a treat.
The good news is that CPU temp is steady in the low 40s (degrees C), only going over 50 for intense activities like video encoding. Case temp is a few degrees less than that.
Overall, I'm very happy.
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Good Try |
February 25, 2010 |
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Simon_Sails
from Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom
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Nice small!! lightweight case, just hangs over a 300mm shelf/desk because of the connectors on the back. The 300W power supply I bought with it was as advertised very low noise. The internal fans much less so but if you move the pin on the fan connector from yellow 12V to red 5V :) it makes a world of difference and if you like me like to blow cold air into a case then let the hot air back of of the spare PCI slots then the fans are easily flipped over :) Other down side, if you want to use the included CDROM carrier you need a very!! low profile heatsink my 75mm unit fouled, I would recommend one of the server style 2U types but watch the noise level. for me I did a case mod, removed the supplied bracket and mounted a laptop CDROM off a replacement plywood bracket. Nice project now my main desktop PC.
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Excellent little case |
January 1, 2010 |
| Reviewer:
David Hammond
from Dereham, Norfolk United Kingdom
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This is an amazingly small case for something which takes a standard mATX motherboard and components. I had no problem fitting everything as the instructions described. Of course it's all a tight fit and needs a little thought with regard to cable routing, but it's worth the effort and looks great for the price.
On the downside, the rear fans really are surprisingly loud (much louder than my CPU/PSU/Gfx card fans combined). Luckily not an issue for me as my setup doesn't generate much heat so I simply disconnected them.
The unit is a tad flimsy. I had to twist and reshape the optical drive/HDD tray for it to sit correctly. The case cover was also a little skewed and required some fettling.
For all that though, it is a an excellent design and its shortcomings are acceptable given the low price. It looks great in the TV cabinet alongside the DVD player and Playstation.
If you want a small media centre, on a tight budget, I highly recommend this case.
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mini micro |
December 21, 2009 |
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Anonymous Person
from carrickfergus, northern ireland United Kingdom
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this case is excellent it looks very well in black and is very small and has a very shallow depth the only thing that i found was the the entire back of the case is very weak it was bent out of shape when it arrive and the other thing is that the back 2 fans are actually 60mm fans(not 40mm) with a molex connector on them and are very loud so i order a pair of 40mm fans which is the size that it state on the case specs with 3 pin connectors on them so that i could put them into a fan controller and then found out that they are actually 60mm fans thanks xcase
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teeny tiny case |
December 7, 2009 |
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robert whitaker
from rotherham, s. yorkshire United Kingdom
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i believe i was the first to buy one of these ( i had to wait four weeks)...it really is tiny.
1st the good ... it is small, it looks good and matches the sony tv, sky hd and xbox elite nicely..now the bad.....despite the instructions telling you where to put the hard drive,,it won't, there is only 10mm clearance between the underside of the dvd and the top of the stock cpu cooler (amd am3) but there is an alternative place at one end. cooling is a problem, the stock cooler ran full speed all the time and cpu ran at aver 60 degrees,( changed the fan to Arctic Alpine 64 Pro PWM For Socket AMD) temp droped to 40 with fan at half speed)
summary... this is a neat and tiny case for your media centre, but its not an easy build..i think it was worth the effort
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