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Posted at 1:28 PM on Sunday 07/25/10 by
Ben
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Newegg has the Gigabyte gz-ph1a3 Black ATX Mid Tower Case for $15 + $15 shipping = $30 shipped. Works with micro ATX and regular ATX motherboards. [Compare]
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    Ghost Rider - Posted 2:47 pm PDT 07/25/10 (3730 Posts)  Report Spam

    What a ugly old fashion look case.
    Eric - you should fire your PM...

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    dave_c - Posted 3:08 pm PDT 07/25/10 (17698 Posts)  Report Spam

    Not sure what the silver knob looking thing is but it doesn't look all that bad to me, at least it's not some neon LED glowing teenager's toy looking thing, but obviously the features aren't good for a discriminating desktop PC builder.

    It is not a very deep case, you may have trouble if you try to use a full width motherboard or video card, and it might even be a problem if you use a longer than average PSU and optical drive, or with either you might need a right-angle SATA cable.

    Inadequate front intake to support # of HDD bays without mounting a fan there, inadequate 80mm stamped out exhaust fan mount so it's looking like the only reasonably good use for this case is a <9" wide board with integrated video and 65W or less CPU... unless you want it to sound like a hair-dryer struggling to keep enough airflow.

    I can think of another use though, since the full ATX height allows so many drive bays it might not be bad for a home, light-duty fileserver or HTPC with its own massive fileshare instead of pulling content over the LAN... with some minimal parts specs like a dual core Atom w/Ion video.

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    Ghost Rider - Posted 9:46 pm PDT 07/25/10 (3730 Posts)  Report Spam

    I will never use any case with poor air flow design - specially for server....

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    dave_c - Posted 9:27 am PDT 07/26/10 (17698 Posts)  Report Spam

    If it is a home fileserver, you won't have very high temps with the CPU mostly idle. Something based around Atom CPU and 6 hard drives could stay under 100W. Further, unlike your desktop PC it doesn't need to be next to or on your desk so if the fans are at a little higher RPM you won't necessarily be close enough to hear the noise.

    I have a server with only 1 rear 80mm fan, PSU exhaust and one fan in front of the lower HDD rack, it has ran fine for quite a few years now (Celeron 500MHz, though I had to add RAID cards) though I should mention that the drives in the upper bays have a filter panel in front of them for some passive intake there instead of leaving the solid plastic blank panels in it, and with this case I would cut out a hole in the back where it is presently a perforated grill so the exhaust fan is less obstructed and the same with the front bay intake.

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