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Help choosing new case, chenming anyone?

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nightanole

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Ok i have a problem, My old alum case doesnt have the clearance for the new power supplies with the 2nd fan at the bottom. So the 2nd fan is right on top of the mobo so i cant use any heatsink/fan thats bigger then the ziff socket. Right now im limpin alog in a 1998 case that has a mobo tray so it has a good amount of clearance for the heatsinks with 80-92mm fans on them. Only problem is theres no way the cool the hard drives in it so i have to leave the lid off.

So now i need a new case but im kinda lackin on $$$. I already have the power supply. It needs to have atleast 3 5.25 bays, and i would like usb and firewire in front if i can ( I have a 5.25 panel for that but it sucks up all the ports from the back of the pc). More importantly its gota have the clearance for the ps not to bump the heatsink and have a fan for the hard drives ( I have 2). i was looking at this:
http://www.virtual-underground.com/reviews/301KE/
Its gota fan right on top of the heatsink for cold air intake, and a fan near the video card which is nice too, and its small. But it doesnt have a way to cool 2 7200rpm hard drives. Its got a rigged way of cooling the pcb of 1 hard drive by exposing half the hard drive bottom to the intake fan. That doesnt help the other hard drive. I really dont want to go back to the huge antec clones that weigh 50lbs, nor do i have $100 to get a alum jobie of the same unit. Could i rig a fan into the hard drive rack? its got the fan hole there, but it doesnt look like theres enough space to mount a fan inside the case.
 
i dont know why you NEED a fan in the hard drive rack, but i think you could do it. ur hard drives might stick pretty far out though.
 
Eh in the case i got now, with no fan, they get too hot to touch. That ant good. Warm is ok, but not hot enough that child cant keep there hand on it. maybe i could mount a fan on the back side, it just needs to swirel air around, then let nature take its coarse.
 
I dont see why a fan wouldnt fit inside the drive cage. The larger Chenming/Cheiftec cases have them already in place with those ugly purple fan cages. Think I already threw mine out but maybe someone else has one they wouldnt mine sending you. If not you can always cut a hole lined up with the cage and mount it that way.
 
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