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Needs some adjusting |
February 6, 2010 |
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Merlin the Wizard
from Purfleet, Essex United Kingdom
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I found that my video card wouldn't fit. It's a ATI X1650, it's due to the height and length of the card. Finally, I needed to take a hacksaw to the drive plate. I just cut out a slot where the card was pushing against it.
The external drive is a bit of a pain to screw in, because there is no access to the securing screws at the side of the cage. So its a case of putting in the drive flush against the front, then marking the position of the screw holes, removing the cage and screwing everything before putting it back in again.
Finally, a small thing.. the power LED connector does not have individual + and - jumpers, they are together (i.e. 2 pin jumper block), so couldn't connect to my MB (mine needed 3-pin jumper block (i.e +,hole,- ). Maybe different on other MB's.
But apart from that, the black finish is very good (it looks very professional in my wooden rack cabinet), so a good (albeit time consuming) rackmount case :-)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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An excellent case but not without some faults. |
August 24, 2009 |
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James
from United Kingdom
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Plenty of space inside, and very efficient cooling. (my AMD Phenom II X4 system runs at room temperature when idle, with the core at 34 degrees) My only complaints are that the fans are pretty loud, and it won't fit long graphics cards (without some slight modification).
To clarify the rack-mounting issue, the only type of rack it won't fit (without filing down the rack ears) are those cheap ABS plastic ones.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great for home studio |
July 2, 2009 |
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Anonymous Person
from Ammanford, Wales United Kingdom
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I bought one for my home studio also. I don't know what the other reviewer was on about. My motherboard wasn't so massive as to fit under the drive bays - it fitted tightly and perfectly. Yes it is a gnats fart wider than a 19" rack (it just about scraped into my rock bag rack), but then again it does go with a little gentle persuasion. The holes line up perfectly on my rack so no complaints there either. It is pretty rugged with plenty of space for internal HD's (is 4 enough for a studio? Works for me). My only complaint is that the fans are slightly noisy for a studio PC (and my PSU is also but that's another story) and it could do with another external 5.25" bay (would make for a hotswap bay - very useful when recording. I'm sure though if you spoke to X-Case they could do something about the fans and match up a quiet PSU.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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The perfect music studio computer case |
June 12, 2009 |
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Mark Edwards
from London
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I expected something flimsier at this price, but the case is solid, rigid, well assembled, HDDs and DVD burner are inserted on plastic rails, no screw required, and it fits in a standard 19" rack usually full of expanders.
The two fans are silent, there''s no vibration, it''s queit and well ventilated, even with 4 disksyou won''t use it as a heater in winter (or worse, in summer) !
If you don''t need to swap your disks but rather favour a fixed set (I have a 4 x 1 Tb Raid array), this is the ideal case.
It even has two sets of holes on the rack ears, one for US, the other for EU spacing.so you won"t swear the air blue at 2 AM in total darkness backstage.
And that, my friends, is the cherry on the cake.
Pros: Incredible value for money, silent, rigid, roomy, no sharp edges
Cons: only one usb on front, no floppy bay
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Very Disappointing |
June 8, 2009 |
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Jim
from Cumbernauld
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I bought one of these cases a while back in preparation for setting up a home recording studio. I finally got around to building the PC last weekend.
Here is a summary of my experience:
1. The internal drive cage prevents access to the frontmost mounting posts for the motherboard, so unless you've got a right-angled screwdriver, expect a loose and floppy board.
2. The case including the rackmount ears is actually slightly wider than 19 inches (about 19 and 1/8), so if your rack is bang on 19 inches, you can forget about mounting it in there without filing down the edges of the ears.
3. Despite having four mounting holes in each ear, the holes are in the wrong positions for mounting on standard racking strips - at most you'll get three out of four, and the case won't sit in a 4U slot, it's more like 1/2 - 3 - 1/2.
Save yourself some pain and pay the extra cash for a better quality case.
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