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Nice! I wasn't planning on doing another build any time soon but I did want to transplant the guts from my 2700x build to a nicer case. According to Newegg it's got some fan slots - not sure what you mean kirbyrj 2x 120s or 140s seems to be alright?
"Cooling 120mm fan 140mm fan
Front 2x 2x
Top 1x 1x
Rear 1x (included)
Liquid Cooling 120mm radiator 140mm radiator"
this was actually on my short list for the back up rig until i saw the single 120 on top. i need room for at least 2x240. so i picked up a cheapie deepcool matrexx 55 for $40 on sale. its actually a solid little case and it looks good. eatx and will take a 360 in front (pulling the hdd rack out) and a 240 up top. not the greatest airflow in front but itll do for this rig- evga x99 classified- eatx , evga 980ti, 500gb crucial ssd, 2x8gb cheapo gskill memory and a seasonic 620w psu.
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811853064
I wish more newer cases would include more than 2x 3.5" HD bays. I don't need a new case for my server but had this had more 3.5 bays, I probably would have impulse bought this one...
Yup. Only two 3.5 bays is ridiculous.
You guys have had cases with 6-8 drive bays for years that many of us hated. They just made cases larger, blocked airflow and were ugly. I love that there are cases now with just a few bays. I'd be fine with no 2.5/3.5" bays, M.2 is more convenient.
You guys have had cases with 6-8 drive bays for years that many of us hated. They just made cases larger, blocked airflow and were ugly. I love that there are cases now with just a few bays. I'd be fine with no 2.5/3.5" bays, M.2 is more convenient.
Sure it's convenient, but unless you have deep pockets large drives are still expensive (or more expensive than regular spinners or SATA3 drives). Plus with chipset limitations, using a 2nd M.2 varies from board to board as to where it pulls the resources from. Sometimes you lose SATA ports (no big deal), sometimes you lose bandwidth to your primary graphics card (big deal).
Personally, I like that P350. I'd build in that. I like it better than the Meshify I'm using now. The Meshify is shorter though which is why I keep it around. Probably build an ITX system next time around.
Make removable drive cages; problem solved. That way, people that want more drives keep the cages in and get the expansion. Then other people can remove them and have the airflow they desire. Not a huge cost addition to stamp out a drive cage and screw it in place. My two primary systems have cases configured like this. My gaming PC has all the cages removed for airflow and my server has most of the cages in for all the spinners I have in place. We can have the best of both worlds, it doesn't have to be one or the other.