h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Cooling is important in computers, so people put lots of fans on. but that makes thing noisy so bigger fans are put on cos they move morea ir at slower speeds. like Aplus did with this case

http://image.ebuyer.com/UK/R0123912-01.jpg

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/123912/


Aplus kinda took it to the extreme though. The case is about 28 cm wide, 54 cm tall and 60 cm deep!! It that big becasue the front fan is 25 cm, and the side fan as 36 cm! An you can put a 120cm fan on the back. As people reviewing it have said you could be sucked in!

howevveer it would keep my room clean. And I bet its great fun to fire things across the room using the fans!

Unfortunately it cost 70 quid

You don't want to have all that dust in your PC.

Yeah, a few dust filters may be useful. Dunno why it doesn't come with them though

Bet it would keep you cool in summer with that case.

It certainly looks

It does, I want one, not too sure about price though

Dust filters would impede the air-flow, negating half the benefit of the fans. And even worse, they'd really mess with that jet-engine shriek when it powers up.

They put dust filters on some cases these days so they can't einterfere that mcuh.
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But yeah it would interfere witht that howl, Mind you it is called the Aplus Twin Engine. Expect to see a plane built around it sometime soon

neighbours may not like me so much when i'm on my computer

I've been looking at their other cases as well. Huge amounts of fans. unfortunately no-one i've found so far sells the ones i want in the uk!

which is the one you want?

Antec cases are usually rated well (but then I am biased and I prefer the sleek subtle matt black minimalist look to the explosion-in-a-gadget-factory look )

Well ideally their flagship one with 7 180mm fans<>cool>

x-clio 100
http://www.xclio.com/products/case-xclio-1000.htm#details
but i bet that's expensive

or these

http://www.xclio.com/products/case-a380plus.htm#details

or

http://www.xclio.com/products/case-godspeed-one-adv.htm#details


I quite like Antec as well, looking at them at the moment however the p1182 ebuyer doesn't sell and I don't know the reputation of other online sites.

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Biased towards antec and nvidia. Terrible

hmmmmm - you coould try scan.co.uk or dabs.com - not used dabs (some people think they're OK, others don't) and scan is usually ok from what I know. There's always some probs but providing you read the reviews and make up your own mind. Personally I find ebuyer cheaper but that can change.

You are aware you don't need 7 fans aren't you? It does sound a bit like the computing equivalent of a vauxhall corse with a bean can exhaust to me. But then I ain't a teenager so what would I know about

Yeah, I realised I wouldn't need 7 fans. Probably only need 2 or 3 120mm. Maybe less i've not done my research


I'll check dabs and scan out



btw is it worth getting a decent processor cooler?

the one that comes with it is usually sufficient. Only really need to mess with them if you want a really quiet one or are overclocking it.

Think is, the main heat generation in the computer is going to be
1) The PSU - that comes with an inbuilt fan anyway
2) The CPU - comes with its own fan
3) The VideoCard - usually comes with a built in fan or heat exchanger.

The only reason for a case fan is to remove heat generated by other motherboard components and things like the hdd,fdd and dvd. And to cycle the air in the case so the other fans aren;t just moving the same old hot air around.

Unless you are really cranking the system the max the ones supplied will do it plus 1 case fan just to help cycle the air about a bit.

Thanks

I'll not bother with a cpu cooler then and get one more case fan

just make sure the cpu you buy comes with one (they usually do if you buy the retail version).

Think it does. One of the ones on ebuyer doesn't though but I'm not getting that one. i'll check it later, got the webpage saved so can check when not online

entry for the bits of thinking of. just a long list at the minute

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A56322858

Ebuyer are selling more x-clio cases.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169884#

My favourite apart from the price!

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169886

One I'm thinking of getting

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/169885

nad an updated version of the one in the first post