Mid Tower with carrying handles

[LTD3000]

Hello All :-)

 

I am struggling to fine a mid tower case that supports atx MB and has carrying handles for £50-£60

two factors that cannot change is the capability to fit a atx MB and the carry handles anything else is flexible.

 

Any advise would be greatly appreciated so thanks in advance.

[ChrisCross]

8 minutes ago, LTD3000 said:

 

i have an old cm storm scout II and believe me. if you want a mobile desktop the weight is way more important than carrying handles!

[LTD3000]

18 minutes ago, ChrisCross said:

i have an old cm storm scout II and believe me. if you want a mobile desktop the weight is way more important than carrying handles!

ye thanks I guess your right there, (still carry handles would be nice) but looking to buy possible 20 or so case's maybe just a few to bigging with,

so looking for stuff I can buy in bulk 

[ChrisCross]

2 minutes ago, LTD3000 said:

 

i would optimise every part in there for weight. fron the cooler to the gpu. if your buying in quantities i would take a closer look at what your buying.

can you tell me budget and use for the machines? maybe i can help you out. 

[LTD3000]

17 minutes ago, ChrisCross said:

i would optimise every part in there for weight. fron the cooler to the gpu. if your buying in quantities i would take a closer look at what your buying.

can you tell me budget and use for the machines? maybe i can help you out. 

So basically I am trying to integrate VR in to my college and so far i have got them to buy a HTC VIVE (should be arriving some time in June)

Now I am trying to spec up some systems to run the head set and also for creating VR game (they will by used by our game programming course)

the budget is kind of in the air at the moment so trying to make do with what we have so there is more chance that we will have more VR ready PC.

 

So far we will be using the "Dell Precision T1700" for most of the parts

then I have already bought:

1 CM V750 http://www.coolermaster.com/powersupply/enthusiast-v-series/v750/

 and 1 GTX 1080  

 

This is so we have at least one system ready for use when the VIVE arrives.

But I am thinking of getting the board partner GTX 1080's for the rest of the systems (dont know witch one yet) and i am worried that they will over heat the system :-/

 

also let me add that i have gone with the CM V750 as the current system dose not support any bigger even though it is the biggest form-factor of the Dell Precision T1700.

 

Will take some photos later today :-)

[ChrisCross]

54 minutes ago, LTD3000 said:

 

you dont need a 1080 for vr. a 1070 or whatever comes out of amd soon. should be enough.

also what exactly is in those dell's? you should be able to just upgrade them.

 

also whats your location?

[LTD3000]

3 hours ago, ChrisCross said:

you dont need a 1080 for vr. a 1070 or whatever comes out of amd soon. should be enough.

also what exactly is in those dell's? you should be able to just upgrade them.

 

also whats your location?

In Burnley UK.

I know that there are cheaper cards that can run VR but the college has a 5 year life cycle so the car wont be upgraded for 5 years.

I'm not at the college today so I cant give specifics on the hardware inside till tomorrow,

but I know that it has a xeon processor clocked at 3.40Ghz

16GB of DDR3 although could be DDR4 (will have to check)

 

I have tried calling dell and asking them if we could get the system upgraded but they told me they could not. :-(

 

and before you say it i know the graphics will be VERY, VERY close to the hard drive cage 

[ChrisCross]

2 hours ago, LTD3000 said:

 

ok i think you got some form of special version of this:

http://geizhals.de/dell-precision-t1700-mt-workstation-1700-5511-a1299922.html?hloc=uk

because there isnt a consumer version with workstation nvs card. they are normally sold with quadros.

 

the good thing is that you have got a haswell quadcore up to 3.9ghz meaning you wont have major bottlenecks. also a normal µATX board is 244mm wide, from what i can see you have 1-2cm room in there. you would have around 260mm for the gpu then but the shortest 1080 i could find is 267mm (evga acx 3.0). some measuring would give exact numbers but i think the problem can be solved with a little modding.

i dont know how good the psu is you bought. i assume you use that power plug http://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/g/   which means your on 230v. that narrows your psu choice to those:

http://skinflint.co.uk/lc-power-silent-giant-lc6650gp3-green-power-650w-atx-2-3-a477257.html?hloc=uk

http://skinflint.co.uk/evga-650-gq-650w-atx-2-3-210-gq-0650-a1353208.html?hloc=uk

because most psu's are designed for 115V.