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Hey,
In the wake of Conroe/Woodcrest I have decided I am going to finally upgrade from my old P4 2.4 Northwood system.
I have a CPU (E 6700), GPU (Radeon x1800xt), RAM (2 gigs of Corsair OC ram), and hard drives (4 x Seagate 500Mb) in mind, but I am not sure if I should junk my current case or not.
I currently have a Chieftec/Antec Dragon case, and it is awesome, but, if I could keep my old comp intact as a media server that would be good too.
My original idea was to buy another Dragon case, but I am sure there are new things on the market. Here are my criteria: Must have 4x 5.25" external drive bays, 1 3.5" external bays, at least room inside for 8 HDs (if I have to buy extra cages it is OK), good airflow, no windows (extra fanports are OK and encouraged), no crazy lights, and no weird colors (black is preferred, though I could deal with bare metal look), and full tower made of steel is preferred. Oh, and a removeable mobo tray is a very good thing.
In the wake of Conroe/Woodcrest I have decided I am going to finally upgrade from my old P4 2.4 Northwood system.
I have a CPU (E 6700), GPU (Radeon x1800xt), RAM (2 gigs of Corsair OC ram), and hard drives (4 x Seagate 500Mb) in mind, but I am not sure if I should junk my current case or not.
I currently have a Chieftec/Antec Dragon case, and it is awesome, but, if I could keep my old comp intact as a media server that would be good too.
My original idea was to buy another Dragon case, but I am sure there are new things on the market. Here are my criteria: Must have 4x 5.25" external drive bays, 1 3.5" external bays, at least room inside for 8 HDs (if I have to buy extra cages it is OK), good airflow, no windows (extra fanports are OK and encouraged), no crazy lights, and no weird colors (black is preferred, though I could deal with bare metal look), and full tower made of steel is preferred. Oh, and a removeable mobo tray is a very good thing.
