I want 5-6 ext 5.25" bays, but am not a gamer. Just need an ATX business box, other bays internal, decent cooling, no PS. $85 tops. Recommendations?
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The storm trooper is a fantastic case - and I highly recommend it. Several people ordered one after seeing mine. It is well over $100. I've installed a SSD, 6-3.5 inch hard disks, a BlueRay drive, a media reader and still have room to grow... My last build was a midtower - and while in theory it had enough space the reality was that in practice it was too cramped. In my experience I'd rather have extra space and not require it than require the space and not have it.
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Per my review, check out this part on Amazon: StarTech.com SAS8087S450 50cm Serial Attached SCSI SAS Cable - SFF-8087 to 4x Latching SATA. You will need two of them, obviously, adding about $60 to your expense given current pricing. They are well-made and not excessively long (not leaving a lot of extra cable length to bundle). I have my card and cables installed within a 4U rackmount case and the arrangement works well. That said, I see another reviewer recommends black cables made by Highpoint that are priced cheaper and whose 3' length might be better and "sexier" if you're setting up a full size tower case. In any case (pun intended), you now have a couple options. Have fun! Per my review, check out this part on Amazon: StarTech.com SAS8087S450 50cm Serial Attached SCSI SAS Cable - SFF-8087 to 4x Latching SATA. You will need two of them, obviously, adding about $60 to your expense given current pricing. They are well-made and not excessively long (not leaving a lot of extra cable length to bundle). I have my card and cables installed within a 4U rackmount case and the arrangement works well. That said, I see another reviewer recommends black cables made by Highpoint that are priced cheaper and whose 3' length might be better and "sexier" if you're... » Read More Per my review, check out this part on Amazon: StarTech.com SAS8087S450 50cm Serial Attached SCSI SAS Cable - SFF-8087 to 4x Latching SATA. You will need two of them, obviously, adding about $60 to your expense given current pricing. They are well-made and not excessively long (not leaving a lot of extra cable length to bundle). I have my card and cables installed within a 4U rackmount case and the arrangement works well. That said, I see another reviewer recommends black cables made by Highpoint that are priced cheaper and whose 3' length might be better and "sexier" if you're setting up a full size tower case. In any case (pun intended), you now have a couple options. Have fun! « Show Less
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not to many full size socket 775 mobos left out there. best bet is to find one on Amazon. Socket 775 are old tech.
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I have this one and it's got a lot of room but you can't put everything the say it can hold in there, not enough space. If you're going to add lots of drives look carefully because on most case the drives will hit caps or video cards on motherboards. Try to find a review where someone says what they were actually able to fit.
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No https://www.google.com/shopping/product/259522134339097545/specs?num=100&safe=off&hl=en&site=webhp&q=Cooler+Master+Elite+130&oq=Cooler+Master+Elite+130&sa=X&ei=fZUIVO2vOIGvyATPyoKACw&ved=0CKoIELgv Here are the specification for that box = Mini ITX board only sorry great board Iam still using my first board I loved it so much I bought 2 more for backups. You'll need to do a search on Mini ITX or search for the a full size case. My advice would be to stay with good tech like asus My computer setup with one of the new solid state hard drives P8Z68-V Pro/Gen3 Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz G.SKILL Ares Series 16GB Seagate Barracuda 2TB Serial ATA Hard Drive - 2TB, 7200RPM, 64MB, SATA 6Gb/s ASUS GeForce GTX 550 Ti ENGTX550 TI DC/DI/1G Video Card - 1GB, GDDR5, PCI-Express 2.0(2)
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Get a good case with good air flow. At least 6 fans. I have no issues with heat whatsoever.
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I rarely find a cooler under $50 for my 17"laptop that fits well. It almost always hangs over. However, considering you only need to cool half of the area of the laptop (hard drive and cpu, mostly), I don't think a full 17" cooler is necessary. As far as this one goes? It's has a 200mm fan - the biggest I've seen in a cooler for this price. 200mm fans are the ones they use in the gaming coolers, so I think this would work. I'm going to get it for my 17", and I'll post a review when I hook it up.
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Good luck...I have four TS140's and I have had great luck turning them into solid workstations. Aside from the one exception, 3 of 4 have Xeons, ECC memory, SSD OS Drives, RAID Data, and GTX 750 Ti Video. I like them so much, I wait for crazy sales and pick another up as my next project. Low 200's for the i3-4130 and low 300's for the e3-1225v3 is really hard to beat. The one you got is the best deal because is has Xeon and the extra drive bay.
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The fan issue regarding the X4 I believe is actually moot because since the reviews that stated any fan issues, we changed the case and went with a much more efficient and ventilated case, as well as having an extra case fan now. There is room for a second... and 3rd (I just checked) DVD drive and is this the best we have for Photoshop work... no. Our technical best would be the AAC-T7S but that is not available on Amazon yet. We currently have a model called the AAC-X8 which we have in stock that would fulfill photoshop work VERY well. It has an 8 core 8320 processor, 16GBs RAM, a 2 TB hard drive and everything else that come standard (card reader, DVD drive, 3 year warranty.) We are working on getting that up and running on Amazon's catalog.
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Oh, I like that case. It's more the size I was looking for, too. Thanks for the tip! I'll be curious to find out if this mobo does fit in it OK, too -- it looks pretty tight and the wifi antenna on these boards isn't necessarily in a good position.
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this case has 5 5.25 inch bays in it, meaning that it could support 5 optical drives if you really wanted it to. You could also have a drawer, a usb hub, a card reader, and an upgraded fan controller if you wanted it. I highly recommend buying it.
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I put a ASUS AMD A85X SATA 6.0 Gb-s 240-Pin DDR3 2400 Motherboards F2A85-M PRO in and it takes both size cards. Looks good too. Using it as a xbmc media box.
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http://www.nzxt.com/product/detail/95-phantom-410-mid-tower-case If you look under the SPEC section, it says "Screwless Rail Design." You may be able to contact NZXT and order replacement rails. I did several searches and only found bay adapters for 2.5" drives to 3.5" bays. You may find them on Ebay, but I would recommend buying from NZXT directly if possible. Hope this helps.
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It is a tight fit inside... but there is a really good amount of airflow (even with two hard drives). I personally use the two extra fan mounts. I haven't tested it with only one... but I'd probably recommend at least one of the other fan mounts to help the air flow through the box.
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Enjoy it! Nzxt cases are truly beautiful. I've built all my machines in one. If you have doubts or questions look up Linus tech tips he has some in depth reviews. Also if anything breaks the Nzxt warranty will ship you out a new part. :D merry Xmas !!
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Asus, Gigabyte and MSI make some really good boards. The cool thing about the FM2/FM2+ series is that it's something you can grow with as it is just gaining speed as a great "beginners" option. I see where AMD is going with this new "idiot proof" technology, along with HSA and MANTEL to simplify things, right now, it's not so simple because a lot of the stuff for this chip is basically beta, but when they start unlocking the new drivers for this thing I think your gonna see some bang for your buck here! If your looking for a recommendation for a mobo, for the beginner, novice gamer, or HTPC enthusiast look no further than the Gigabyte G1 Killer Sniper A88X motherboard. It has a wicked built in 7.1 Realtech sound card (cost cutter there), 3.0/2.0 usb, audio DAC port, audio AmpUp, Durable antistatic shielding, and most importantly.... DUAL BIOS! Which makes it more attractive than all the other FM2+ boards out there, it's basically noob proof... How bout that!
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I ordered mine directly from Corsair. I just got lucky, sort of, because after all the charges from the drop shipping to California then the UPS charge, I could have easily bought a nicer case from an American company like CaseLabs. Their Magnum STX 10 case is awesome. The only problem is that it comes flat shipped and you have to buy all of your fan mounting hardware. So basically you end up with about a 900.00 case anyway, but their HDDs and SSD mount out of site in the right side panel, pretty awesome. It's so customizable that I think I want one of their cases instead. It has like 7 radiator mounting options and will hold 4 power supplies. I can't see any one needing four power supplies, but I also never thought I would need two. Corsair told me these will not be released until the end of May, unless you are lucky enough to score on of the ten or so that they send to Newegg or Amazon.