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Full Tower Case Needed

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Gawd
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I currently have a Silverstone TJ-09B and it's a very nice case. However the cooling is not that great with the cards I have installed (8800GTX, HVR-1600 Tuner, Areca ARC-1231ML Raid, Adaptec 29160 SCSI. My Areca card runs at 67C and that's the board temperature. If I put another fan in the case to blow over the cards, it drops down quite a bit. Also my hard drive cooling with six 750gb drives in the bays is pretty poor. Other than those issues, I really like the case.

First off, let me preface that my new requirement over the TJ-09 is that I have seven 5.25" drive bays accessible externally. I'm thinking about going with a case with direct cooling of the PCI cards. The Coolermaster Stacker 830 Evo and 832 are on my list. Also the Lian-Li PC2000 Plus II, Silverstone TJ-07, and the Tegan Aplus Black Pearl, the Lian LI PC-V2100B Plus II, and any other suggestion you guys can offer.

I want the system to be quiet and already have a large assortment of S-FLEX fans in 120mm. I want good cooling and I need space for eight hard drives. Now my plan is to install two 5 x 3 Supermicro SATA hot swap bays to hold a total of 10 drives, eight of which will be in use at the start with room to grow. If you look at my sig, you'll see I run an Areca controller with 12 channels. I'll be adding two more 750gb drives in the next couple of weeks, but instead of using internal bays I want to make the disks hot swappable. So that means my requirement for 3.5" bays is not as important as the 5.25" bays. All the models listed above would allow me to install two 5 x 3's and a DVD-RW.

I don't have a set budget - I'll buy whatever suits my needs. Any advice is very much welcomed.
 
stackers don't work very well with swaps(Icy Dock).
I'd get the Lian Li V2000.
 
ockie used a stacker with hot swap bays.... i wounder what he would say about the two
 
Cool. Well I own 25k in fabrication equipment and welders in my home shop, so I'll make anything fit if it does not. I went ahead and ordered the 832 Stacker, 2 Super Micro 5x3 Hot Swap trays, replacement 92mm fans for the hots wap trays, and some fan filters. $650 from Newegg - ouch but I did get a free A64 Venice 3400+ with the case. lol

If I'm happy with the Stacker I'll sell my Silverstone TJ-09.
 
The Coolermaster 832 Stacker arrived today along with the Super Micro 5x3 Hot Swap bays. Overall I'm impressed with both and I believe this will be a better combo than the Silverstone TJ-09 I have right now. Where the Silverstone feels a bit more quality and tight, the flexibility of the Stacker 832 will win me over. I swapped in some quieter 92mm Silverstone fans on the Hot Swap bays. The bays fit perfectly in the case and look pretty cool IMO. I'll add a DVD-RW and Floppy/Media Reader in another 5-1/4" bay. Here's a couple of pictures of the initial build. I won't really get started swapping parts until week or two. I'm waiting on a Xeon X3220 Quad Core to arrive. Once nice thing is that the entire case is reversible. Just flip the motherboard tray from side to side and even swap how the front door swings. Good stuff!

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