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Hi all I'm new here so I'm sorry if i haven't put the correct tags in, It's as the title says. Looking to replace my NZXT H200 that I got from a friend with something newer that has thermals better as my 4070 reached 100C on a 30C day last week, the parts are all new except the drives and H100i so I'd like something that can mount a 240 AIO. I was originally looking at the Phanteks Shift XT but I heard it has thermal issues, is there anything else similar to it with good thermals? My current specs are: 7800X3D 32GB of RAM RTX 4070 Lian Li 750W SFX PSU 1 SATA SSD and 1 GEN 4 SSD

I just bought a new Coolmaster N400 case. It support 7 x 3.5 HDD. It only came with 4 of the toolless HDD mounting brackets. I cannot find them on Coolmaster's website ,nor can i find them on the web (NewEgg or Amazon) Does anyone know where to buy them? part number? link to a vendor?

I was watching the ltt video on mesh/non mesh front panels and linus talked a bit about the lack of airflow past the gpu and I realized that no cases i’ve seen actually solve this issue, seemingly due to the lack of an exhaust fan below the gpu. Would it be excessive to 3d print an adapter that would let me mount a fan (probably one or two 40mm fans due to clearance) using the expansion slot holes? This would be for my first pc build, running a 3060 ti and a deepcool CH370 for the case. I have most of the parts already. (i’ve never had a pc with an actual gpu before lol) (sorry if this has been talked abt before, i briefly scanned recent posts and didn’t see anything)

I just bought an Evga RTX 3090 Ti ftw3 (on a good deal) and I was wondering will it fit the case. I was browsing around and people are saying its a 4-slot graphics card. (Planning to build an Itx pc)

Budget (including currency): <£1800 Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly 60+ FPS, 1440p gaming, some hobby Blender and Photoshop use. Other details: Already picked up the monitor from the list on a sale. Hey guys, I'm in the process of planning a new build and I'm struggling with finding some information about cases. I'm hoping to pick something small in size, but not so small that it becomes impractical to build and/or keep properly cooled. I've narrowed my choices to either Fractal Meshify 2 Compact with stock fans or the ASUS Prime AP201 MicroATX + 5-pack of ARCTIC P12 Max fans. Price wise it comes out to about the same 105-110 pounds. One of my main concerns is dust build up. Fractal has multiple filters, Asus only a bottom one. I'm wondering how much do the filters actually help? Because if I'll have to clean the case up often anyway, then I might as well go for the smaller, easier to clean one. I also heard in some reviews that the fans get really loud in the Asus, because they are mounted straight onto the metal mesh. Is that the case? Here's the build in question. Fractal version - https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/QcGZ28 Asus version - https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/wRnRFs Oh, and of course and C&C about the build in general is more than welcome.

There hasn't been much if any improvement at all in this space in the past 5 years. SFX power supplies are still $100+ for anything decent. There's a lack of truly compact cases (with decent airflow) under $100. The fundamentals issues still exist: GPU's/CPU's in the desktop market demanding more power. Enthusiasts who spend $1000+ on a machine want the best performance possible. People don't want to pay more for less. Lack of coordination between manufacturers. Companies like Apple, MS and Sony can get powerful efficient yet small machines because they buy in bulk, sell in bulk and they pick parts that work well together. But a base of niche consumers buying different products from different companies won't get that bulk savings. I'd expect modest improvement, maybe somewhat faster in improvement than the last 5 years, but I'd still temper my expectations.

Hello Guys, I don't know if you have ever heard of Wolfdesign cases ? Well if you do, I have one of their prototypes and i'm gonna tell you its story. (excuse me, i know my english is like garbage level, but i believe you will be able to fully understand what i mean). It was a small business which a man named Dawid Lupkowski began and he wanted to begin his journey threw crowdfunding however i think that it never worked because his work never got enough attention. His main objective was to make professional built wall mounted cases. The main target was the watercooling market but he explained me that he would probaly even expand to air cooling if things went well. It was August 2021, I had a 9 years old computer and I was looking for wall mounted cases. I decided to use my free time during COVID to find a regular sidejob during my studies to bust the bank with my first watercooled build. Weirdly enough it was when i decided to build a new pc that i found his new made website (coincidence ? i don't know). I contacted him, but he told me that i had to wait because the company wasn't fully operationnal. I told him that i would agree to be a kind of prototype tester. After some negociation by mail, I got lucky and I was probably one of the first and perhaps one of the few customers that got to work directly with Dawid. In fact i'm sure that I own one of the very few cases he ever produced. His first objective was to try to build a case with custom specs and to have someone to make some advertising for him. In fact he was also testing chain production. He had small manufacturers making custom pieces for him for his humble beginnings. Dawid is a gentleman and very nice, fun and kind guy. I believe he had some degrees in economy or in design. I believe he was pationate about gaming and that he wanted to use his skills in design to work in pc building as a passion. We spent many hours on Skype designing a prototype for Extreme builds based on my recommendations. Sometimes we struggled to design pieces and spent hours trying to find solutions. As someone who never worked in the design industry it was a fun experience during Covid as i was regularly at home. Originally Dawid had the ideal to make semi open thin cases but with a tempered glass only. I told him that i though this design to be cool but not so good. Why ? because many people have dusty rooms and because he was losing depth space for more cooling possibilites. So he told me that we would design a custom version and that perhaps he would release it in the future. Here are the main points we were looking for : - Can be used with a cheap regular TV mount. - Beautifull to look at. - The build would be white gold + rainbow rgb in mind. - Should be fully enclosed to minimise dust issues. - Top and bottom meshes are made out of metal can be removed for cleaning (they use magnets) - Backside compartment with enough thickness to allow the front radiator to work properly. - Side has a metal mesh pannel. - Components have to be aligned and being adjustable for eye candy rainbow. - Can use 2 radiators 2x4 120mm top and bottom - Can use 1 front radiator 3x 140mm or 4x 120mm. here are few things we struggled a bit with during the design. Dawid didn't thought about using grommets in his cases as his initial case prototypes were not as big as this one and that most of them were black. Plus he didn't think about a neat cable management on the back bannel. I believe he thought that he had enough room in his back pannel compartment to squish every wire someone wanted. from our discussions he began to rethink things and ideas. - He tried to design channels for cable management. - I recommended him some grommets from NZXT and fractal. We ended up trying some which were nice. He agreed then that he had to find someone which could manufacture him those kind of grommets. After 2-3months of discussion and redesigns, he had issues with his tempered glass pannel manufacturer because. The guy wasn't able to align his holes with those of the blueprint dawid had for him. So he decided to make him a template to drill the holes and we finally ended up with a great glass panel. So here are the results : So here is the stupid thing : we both forgot something usefull in a case the front pannel IO... however it was too late to implement one. But here is one thing : I genuinely never missed it. I just had to open the front door to acces to rear mb connections and later on i just used a female extension for usb. video06557ccf-edff-4e63-914d-55c57e81789dvideo.mp4 So this thing is a Monster in Size... but it is a beautifull case and the psu casing is really the best thing Dawid designed and the masterpiece of his cases. I got it shipped after a long designing process and build process. Dawid was such a sweet guy that he even made me custom gold plated fan grills from an existing design. So The packaging was nicely build and well made it was way too good and it even caused an issue... You see Dawid used the plastic kitchen wrap to protect the top and bottom dust covers. The issue is that the paint of those plates wasn't fully cured it should have dried at least one entire month. Well they had the marking of the plastic wrap on the paint but it wasn't terrible. He asked me to replace them free of charge but i didn't want to because the man was beginning a new company ended up his studies recently and i thought he had not a ton of cash. Plus i accepted to work on prototypes and i knew he was beginning in the industry and that he would certainly make mistakes. So i began to mount my components on this huge thing. The first thing you had to do was to mount the case on those 2 mettalic feet you can see; otherwise the case wouldn't be able to stand up during the build process. The design was very clever and the printed 3d plastic at the end of the metal feet was strong but the case fell on the side one because i lost my balance and I ended up on the case breaking one of the plastic feet mount. Fortunately the case sustained no damage and those feet are to be removed after the completion of the pc. As you probably guessed it as this is a prototype, Dawid and i forgot some things i had to personnaly fix in the case. Fortunately i'm into a lot of random builds (electric guitars, rc modelling, guitar amps) and i had the tools to modify and fix the main issues. So here are some design flaws and errors we've encountered. - First of all we didn't expect the powder coating the reduce the gap in the radiator rail mounts. Result : screws didn't fit in them. When bruteforcing the screw didn't work without damaging metal, i had to use my drill and a kind of jig to remove the coating where i wanted to screw the radiators. - Second issue was with the bracket which supported the distro plate. We didn't consider that the pump would require a hole in the bracket. Fortunately i was able to cut the piece with a dremel. The result was not pretty however it was fine because the side of the bracket which required the hole was behind the distro plate and not visible. despite the difficulty of the build, for a first prototype i think it had few issues. As i discovered that powder coating was used in case manufacturing it caught my interest. I was like screw this : every motherboard is black. The most beautifull motherboard available when i was doing this build was the aorus z490 waterforce. I decided to do something extremely stupid with it... Yes i removed every metalic part of it and i removed the paint on it as bit tech YT channel did it. I told myself i would only do something like this once in my life (spending this absurd sum of money for a pc). Well it turned out that the white powder coating on the board worked and it was fine plus it only costed me 30$ in an auto shop... However here comes the drama and the mistake which costed me a diy electric guitar... Those z490 aorus motherboards had to be flashed before being used with a 11900k... I downloaded the right bios and unfortunately it bricked the board... I looked at the files and in the website if i didn't make any mistake... Well no mistake was done, however i did a thing i shouldn't have and tried it again with the second bios. The board was completely bricked and unfortunately i refused to pay a 20$ insurance for the board... Moreover as the card was modified i was sure that gigabyte would not take the RMA... So i got lucky and found that a company sold the motherboard half the price because it was the motherboard they used for exposition on their website. I had to sell one of my guitars and was able to get this one half the price. just had to swap the powder coated pieces and voila. I used the same bios file and fortunately this time it worked perfectly. I still don't know why this issue happened, but i don't think it was because of the powder coating. Here are the results : After getting the board fully done i finished the build and here is how it looks : IMG_3369 (2).mp4 So here are the full specs : Seasonic Prime TX 1000w Acrylic tubing. Barrow fittings. Mainframe customs modular wire I9 11900k RTX 3090 FE (got lucky and bought it at msrp when everyone was paying 2k for them) EKWB quantum vector waterblock EKWB flow indicator Aorus z490 waterforce. RGB mounting plate for motherboard. 1TB samsung evo 980 32GB 4x8GB corsair dominator GDDR4 3600 EKWB distroplate with pump EKWB 3x140 radiator 3x lian li uni fan 140mm 2 Hardware Labs Black Ice Nemesis Radiator GTS 480 8x noctua Noctua NF-S12B redux to tame the noise (i know those aren't optimal). The build turned out to be extremely beautifull but it also sucked 1/3 of my 7 months salary + a guitar. The big pro is that this case is really well built and i will be able to use it for a lifetime. the build is extremely silent and the temps are around 40-50°c for the gpu under load and around 75°C for the cpu under load. (The waterforce z490 block hasn't exceptional performances the z590 for example is way better). After this i tried to get some advertisement for Dawid. Unfortunately for him i'm the kind of guy who hates social media like facebook and twitter so i don't have any account on those platforms which are the best to advertise something... I tried to contact JayZ or even GamersNexus, but i'm a no one so i didn't manage to contact them at all... I made some reviews of it on reddit, however many of my reviews were taken down by angry moderators which said i was advertising and that it was forbidden. However i wasn't advertising i was trying to do a full review of the case and i tried to spread the word that those cases were worth their price... As you guessed it things didn't go well with this and as Dawid is a No one person (not a celebrity on the net) it was extremely difficult for him to find ways to advertise to raise founds for his new ideas and its company. Over 2 years his main video on his channel has only 92k views and those are probably from people like me who tried to find if there were some wall mounted cases for sale. I kept contact for a year and he told me that the eu and the his state would help him creating his new company. 7 months later he told me that he got an investor. However it has been 5-6 months he didn't answer me. And i've heard by some few recent comments on the net that apparently he stopped with those cases. Which is extremely unfortunate because his ideas were geniunely interesting. I don't know if he made a break or if he is still trying, but i hope this post will perhaps help him. Wall mounted cases should be the main cases on the market. Why ? first of all because houses and appartments are becoming more expensive and wages are getting smaller with inflation. Which means people will tend to live in small rooms. A wall mounted Pc Saves you a lot of room plus it is the most beautifull way to display your components. Another advantage is that it is way more easier to maintain and to clean. the main con is that it can be annoying to change any hardware. This case is awesome and i wont sell it even for 10k. If linus tech tips might be interested in making a video about this case i would be able ship it to them. So here is the story of this case and the undetermined fate of this company. I hope you enjoyed reading this post.

So I have already purchased said case, not exactly looking at the advertising and such because the case just seemed smart. I have already built my computer inside but I needed to find out what the controller was called on the back that I could connect my fans too so I can quickly figure out how to control them better, Besides that I found my self on corsairs website where they are displaying the case in all its glory. Now I myself understand the concept of marketing but I will put the picture they provide below (hopefully it will show). I know many of us will catch on to what the issue is here and how I could say this is sort of false advertising or maybe I am just bad at computer building, but could anyone here build a computer with the components in place like they are here in the picture? In no way shape or form does my case look anything like this picture. Just sort of looking for some thoughts as to how people would perceive this. *As a note in which most of us probably don't need to be told but there is a large case of Schrodinger's power cables going on here, not to mention how would the cables fit with the hard drive cage right up besides the power supply. **Side Note, I did move the cage so I could fit my power cables and thus why it looks nothing like the cables and my door was on the verge of not closing.

I have a SFF motherboard (0WR7PY) and I planned on putting it into a new case with better airflow. My question is what ATX/ITX size would be compatible ? (I am willing to mod the case too if needed)

I have a Noctua NH-D15 air cooler and am considering upgrading to a Be Quiet Silent Base 802 (TG window, black) for my case. The dimensions for both cooler and case suggest that they are compatible. Was wondering if anyone is running this combo currently. I'm thinking of doing a Linus Torvalds inspired build at some point (though he used an NH-U14S and Dark Base 700).

Just thought i'd post some advice (mostly basic) after seeing many people running into issues with keeping CPU/GPU at ideal temps. A constant theme I’ve noticed is that the Case is playing a big part in why those temps aren’t able to be managed. I think case selection is an underrated aspect of PC building. Many prioritise form over function & tend to regret it later on, especially during the warmer months of the year. Air-cooled setups are often doomed from the get-go if the front of the Case is a solid glass/metal/plastic panel with little to no front corner intake grills. This restricts a major inlet for fresh air through the front of the Case, where you need at least two fans - in line with the CPU cooler & with the GPU - to feed these major components the cool air they need. A minimum-sized 120mm rear exhaust fan is essential + a top 120mm exhaust fan option will also help should you need to tweak things. Having a Case that allows you to customise your fan sizes/layouts is also beneficial, so you’re not restricted to one configuration. This applies more to those with or who plan to use an AIO down the track - having multiple locations where you can fit various sized AIOs & rotate them to suit your needs is also good. Personally, I can recommend Corsair’s 4000D Airflow Case (& by extension, their more high end 5000D Airflow) as it ticks most of the boxes I’ve mentioned above. It isn’t perfect though, as front AIO placement is restricted for larger sized 360mm radiators - you’ll struggle to mount it with the hoses down due to the small gap in the PSU shroud. The other flaw is the thin metal frame where you screw the fans onto - need to be careful not to over-tighten as the thin metal can warp easily. But in terms of airflow, it has a perforated front & top panels with generous options for 120mm & 140mm fans allowing many configurations for an air-cooled system. That’s all I’ve got for now, but if others want to add more tips & elaborate on what’s mentioned, feel free! Anyway, this is just a little advice for those starting their builds. Hopefully it helps a bit. Also, maybe a list of airflow-friendly Cases could be compiled here, so if people want to mention their recommendations for such Cases I’ll add them below. List of recommended Cases with good airflow... Corsair 4000D Airflow Fractal Meshify 2 (Non-glass front panel)

Hi, I have been looking for a Lian Li O11 EVO case but it's out of stock everywhere it could be found (Newegg and Amazon US). It can't be found in Canada. They can be found in some retails store in Australia but online order can't be done from Canada. Is there a reason for the case to be out-stock everywhere or how can we know when they will be available again ?

Ok, so I bought a Foundation NZXT PC, long story there, but essentially I have a GPU for it now and hate the case...I mean HATE the H510. Was looking into the Be Quiet 500DX for a replacement but didn't know if anyone had experience with the case and the thermals with suggestions on the fan setup and if it is a good buy, I am limited in the upgrade to about $150 US so other than the corsair 4000d and maybe springing a bit extra on the Fractal Torrent, this one caught my eye and seems easy to build in. Any suggestions on it or other options will greatly help me ask my financial planner (wife) if we could look at upgrading in the next 6 months or so.

I will be building a mid range system and I do not know which case to pick. They both look like good options but the corsair one is slightly cheaper. Which one should I go for?

Why are radiators in cases besides contiguity & maybe water volume? Seems to me that cases should have radiators external to the case so they max out air flow on the rad, decongest the case, spread out warm components, & reduce dust inside the case while making the rads immediately cleanable & not semi trapped in their cases in difficult to clean books.

I've been thinking about my upgrade path for my computer and somewhere along the line, there will be a sort of upgrade to the computer casing itself. Because the one I have right now is some weird trash that could break at any moment it feels like. When I moved my PC around I noticed another dastardly thing. Fingerprints all over the tempered glass. And then it hit me. Why even bother with looks? I don't give one wink about how my computer looks. It should be powerful. I only have RGB on components that have it, because there's a window, and you can look inside. My ass. My computer is under my desk. I don't crawl under my desk to look at my 'puter and say "Oh wow look at this #most2017computer" to admire it through a dirty glass. I simply don't care. So when I made the realization I thought, are there any good cases that have high airflow, or can have high airflow, but have next to no glass to look inside? But then I got busy and forgot about all of this until now.And I am still busy. So I will ask the community to tell me their #1 case without any windows. That's where you come in! So while I do some paperwork, you guys solve this issue. Thank you very much!

Hi, I'm thinking about buying a new case and even though it's not one of the best performers I'm thinking about the H510i from NZXT. The only think I can't find rn is if the case lights are compatible with Aura Sync which I use for everything else. I saw a post from NZXT from about 6m ago about a beta version of their CAM software and beta usage of the Aura Sync API, but I'm still a bit sceptical. If anyone has any kind of experience with those two together, I will be glad if you reply to this post. Thank you!

So basically I have an evga 650g3 and a triple fan strix card. I know those arnt small form factor parts by any means, but I was looking for a mini itx case anyone could recommend that has a temperglass side atleast. I would get a phantecs evolve or NZXT H1 but I already have a spare atx psu and they are expensive right now so I might as well use it.

Hiya people, will the Dark Rock Pro 4 fit in my H510 elite? Ram clearance, I'm using 2 of these but planning to put another 2 in: https://www.ebuyer.com/1126766-lexar-8gb-ddr4-3200mhz-cl19-udimm-ld4au008g-r3200gsst on my Msi B550-a pro in the H510 elite

Budget (including currency): ~500.00 Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming, streaming, Engineering software i.e. CAD, Solidworks As the new semester approaches and in-person classes start, a SFF PC is what I am considering to make. I am considering swapping my current mid-tower build into a SFF PC and I am finding it very hard to fit my parts into a SFF PC. Many cases do not allow me to recycle most parts of my build. Currently I have a replacement plans on my mobo, cpu, and psu so those can be swapped for smaller form factors but my 280mm Arctic Freezer ii and RTX 3080 are difficult to to fit in smaller cases. I have thought that maybe I could trade my gpu with someone who has a 300mm or smaller rtx 3080 but I don't know anyone who even owns one. I am open to the idea of making a custom loop but it would just exponentially raise my expenses. Any help or suggestions for cases, mobo's, and psu's? Do I bite the bullet and go full custom loop and sell my other parts? EDIT: the mobo and psue together are about 400 dollars soo that money would be added to the budget to buy the sff parts. So ~900 dollars budget and excluding my PSU and MOBO from my list. Current build: Asus X570 tuf gaming plus WIFI Ryzen 5 5600x Arctic Freezer ii 280mm GIGABYTE Gaming OC RTX 3080 (320mm length, 129mm width, 55mm height) 32GB Gskill Ripjaws V (4 x 8GB) 2 NvME Drives Corsair RM850x PSU Darkflash DLX 21 Mesh Case

Hello My chassis is the Asus ROG Strix Helios, I've tried connecting the RGB connector to the core-responding RGB header on my motherboard. Later I tried connecting it to the exact same RGB header on my Aura Sync terminal. All of my Aura Sync-compatible device all work and are registered in both of the lighting software, except my case. What mistakes am I making? Any advice is helpful, thank you. -FPS Exorcist.

Hi, I’m currently undergoing a design problem and need to collect some research. If you could take 2 minutes to answer this questionnaire it would be greatly appreciated. https://forms.gle/HruJAZstVHJK3WEE6 If you have any suggestions feel free to PM me thanks

So I am looking for a case to kind of downsize from my current Raidmax Gama to something that will be slightly smaller in size and easier to take on a plane. So far the best thing I seem to be able to find is the Corsair 275R. I was hoping that any of you might have a case in mind or know of that I could look in to. Thanks! Budget (including currency): $$$$$ Country: U.S.A for now (moving internationally as soon as Covid lets me) Other details: I have an ATX B470 MB and a MSI 2080ti Gaming Trio, so has to be able to fit those in it. and would prefer it to be able to fit inside the Pelican case I have which has interior dimensions of 22.5"x21.1"x11.4".

I'm planning to build my first PC soon (around April or May as long as I reach my SAT score goal of 1500 or more), I would like some help deciding which case to go with. I already intend to use the parts included in the PC Part Picker list I made : PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor $299.99 CPU Cooler Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM SE 63 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $169.99 @ Best Buy Motherboard ASRock B550 Pro4 ATX AM4 Motherboard $134.99 @ Amazon Memory G.Skill Trident Z Royal 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL19 Memory $189.99 @ Newegg Storage Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $99.99 @ Adorama Video Card Asus GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB ROG STRIX WHITE OC Video Card $879.99 Power Supply Corsair RM (2019) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $124.99 @ Best Buy Monitor LG 27GN750-B 27.0" 1920x1080 240 Hz Monitor $396.99 @ B&H Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $2296.92 Generated by PCPartPicker 2021-01-07 13:37 EST-0500 I really love the design and looks of the Lian Li 011 D, but it's very expensive considering that I would also have to purchase and install a lot of separate fans (as it doesn't come with any) Since I plan to get the white Corsair H100i RGB Platinum AIO cooler, it would make sense have white Corsair fans that match or even sync with the AIO, but I understand that additional Corsair fans are pretty darn expensive and I'm not sure if I could even sync them all up or even support all of it with my motherboard. Good temps would be amazing too so I can overclock and/or not stress too much about overheating or having to set fan curves that resemble the sound of a jet engine inside my home lol. My most considered cases so far: Thermaltake View 51 Snow ARGB Edition Corsair iCUE 465X RGB Lian Li O11D XL-W Lian Li Lancool II Mesh NZXT H510 Elite Corsair iCUE 4000X RGB Any information/suggestions would help! Thank you all, this community has been so welcoming into the PC scene and making things less scary haha!

I’ve been searching for a new case for my PC as I move it from my living room (Yes, I play from the couch) to my bedroom desktop. I’ve been looking into the Cooler Master Mastercase H500 ARGB because of its Aura Sync compatibility and cooling capabilities, not to mention that it has a very low price. I’ve been reading reviews and it seems like in about 25% of the cases, people get a DOA front fan. One of the main reasons I want to get this case is because I want nice RGB, and this would be a total bust for me. Should I still take the risk?