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as you might or might not know/care I recently purchased R9800 pro to upgrade from my old trusty r8500, and I was quite dissapointed at the performance gained. So i upgraded my 1700+ to P4 2.8c to reduce the bottleneck. So if you're still care/intrested let me tell you some frustration that I had when building this case
Well here's my puter's specs
ABIT IS7 - GAT disabled
512mb PC2700
Maxtor 60gb UDMA133 - Prim Master
Maxtor 160gb 8mb Cache - Prim Slave
Pioneer 16x DVD
Lite-on LDW 411s
Creative SB LIVE! Audigy 2 ZS
Leadtek WinTV 2000xp Deluxe
Thermaltake 480w PurePower
I purchased Antec Super Lanboy as the case. At first sight Antec Super Lanboy was a nice eyecandy and has nice features, but combined with ABIT IS7's mind boggling(sp?) layout it was a horrible task to install a puter in it. The distance between the Mobo and the drive cages is way too close, if you have long Optical Drives it will block your RAM slots and most of the mobo area. Luckily my lite on drive is really small. The second problem is, its nearly impossible to install the 2nd IDE chan cable since the IDE connector on ABIT's board is placed 90 degrees on the bottom of the case. And the HDD cage is blocking it, so unless you have small fingers installing that cable is pretty much impossible.
Aside from the bad points the case is actually loaded with neat features, such as foam above the PSU and rubber on the HDD rails to reduce the vibration and blue light LED.
In short, if you're planning on getting this case make sure you buy a mobo with good layout.
here's some pic for the new comp
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/frontview.jpg
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/sidecase.jpg
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/sidecasezoom.jpg
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/action.jpg
Can anyone or someone with this case recommend me a good wire management system, as you can see its quite messy, and when i tried to hide it on the side of the case, i couldnt close it:
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new%2...sesidecase.Jpeg
Also, I am new with P4 series, can someone tell me if these temps are ok:
CPU Idle 40c, Load 50s C
Case 30 - 37 C
PWM(dont know whats this) 40s C
Well here's my puter's specs
ABIT IS7 - GAT disabled
512mb PC2700
Maxtor 60gb UDMA133 - Prim Master
Maxtor 160gb 8mb Cache - Prim Slave
Pioneer 16x DVD
Lite-on LDW 411s
Creative SB LIVE! Audigy 2 ZS
Leadtek WinTV 2000xp Deluxe
Thermaltake 480w PurePower
I purchased Antec Super Lanboy as the case. At first sight Antec Super Lanboy was a nice eyecandy and has nice features, but combined with ABIT IS7's mind boggling(sp?) layout it was a horrible task to install a puter in it. The distance between the Mobo and the drive cages is way too close, if you have long Optical Drives it will block your RAM slots and most of the mobo area. Luckily my lite on drive is really small. The second problem is, its nearly impossible to install the 2nd IDE chan cable since the IDE connector on ABIT's board is placed 90 degrees on the bottom of the case. And the HDD cage is blocking it, so unless you have small fingers installing that cable is pretty much impossible.
Aside from the bad points the case is actually loaded with neat features, such as foam above the PSU and rubber on the HDD rails to reduce the vibration and blue light LED.
In short, if you're planning on getting this case make sure you buy a mobo with good layout.
here's some pic for the new comp
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/frontview.jpg
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/sidecase.jpg
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/sidecasezoom.jpg
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new rig/action.jpg
Can anyone or someone with this case recommend me a good wire management system, as you can see its quite messy, and when i tried to hide it on the side of the case, i couldnt close it:
http://www.portuese.org/azure/new%2...sesidecase.Jpeg
Also, I am new with P4 series, can someone tell me if these temps are ok:
CPU Idle 40c, Load 50s C
Case 30 - 37 C
PWM(dont know whats this) 40s C