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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: zx2slow on May 25, 2006, 09:51:50 PM

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: zx2slow on May 25, 2006, 09:51:50 PM

I'm unhappy wih my aspire x-navigator, it looked cool on the net and all but in real life ist kinda crappy/heavy.  is there a local shop that has a good selection on non beige/boring cases?

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: Billabond1 on May 25, 2006, 10:08:22 PM

yeah, alliance computers in lemoyne.  google them for where they are.  They have good selection of cases.

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: .:F3ar0n:. on May 25, 2006, 10:26:43 PM

yeah, not really sure about to many local places. Only one I know is Cyber Warehouse...but selection is def slim there and pricing is a little higher than what ur gonna find through an online Pricewatch search. Good luck with your searches

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: Pride on May 26, 2006, 03:37:48 AM

http://www.tronetstore.com/

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: louber1115 on May 28, 2006, 04:14:06 PM

<=== Bought 2 cases at Alliance and have been happy with both.

They carry ANTEC stuff which IMO is good for the price range.

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: zx2slow on May 28, 2006, 06:12:17 PM

I stopped in allience (on derry) and tronNET.  TronNET's folks knew their stuff but they are more oriented to complete systems and not component sales, allience was busy when I was there - they didnt really have anything I wanted tho.

I'm kinda leaning to a TT armour case, I have a issue with my current radiator mounting with the asus a8n32's NB heatpipe.

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: Dwg115 on May 29, 2006, 05:52:55 AM

My friend has the Armor and damn is that thing heavy.  I really don't care for it because of it's weight.  Other then that though it's a good case and very solid.  Good looks too!!!

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: .:F3ar0n:. on May 29, 2006, 07:36:16 AM

Quote from: "Zx2Slow"

I'm kinda leaning to a TT armour case, I have a issue with my current radiator mounting with the asus a8n32's NB heatpipe.

Is your current case not supportive of a 120mm fan? Does your liquid cool system run of a a simular setup to the Big water systems? I've ran into simular problems with my coolermaster 730 case. It looks like a nice case to have for liquid cooling,  but again....Have no clue where ur gonna find it locally. However, just a simple pricewatch search yelding the case at 155 and had a few with free shipping. If you can stand to wait a few days

http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/search.asp?s=thermaltake+armor

Title: Local shop tat has a good case selection
Post by: zx2slow on May 29, 2006, 09:29:03 AM

I have a aspire x-navigator (antec/chemming/whatever clone) with a 120mm rear fan that happens to be above the onboard ports on the motherboard.  

I have a Swiftech MCR120 120mm radiator mounted to the rear fan.  It is mounted internally and sticks out over the motherboard about 3".  My new motherboard is a asus a8n32 that has heatpipes for the x32 SLi bridge and the nforce4 chipset.   They are cooled by copper fins located right behind the onboard ports.   Asus included a fan for passive/watercooled systems for the heatpipe fins but it will interfere with my current radiator mounting.  

I might go with a big mountain UFO case or one of the lian-li's with the divder between the top and bottom that mounts the motherboard upside down, but I really dont want to put that kind of money into a case.