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by bonestonne » Sat Sep 01, 2012 7:47 am
The two cases are nearly identical, just minor differences between the two. I've built several systems in PS07 cases, and customers love them, and they're very easy to work in. No sharp edges, and fairly straight forward installations. Silverstone thought out these cases very well for even very advanced builds.
The D14 should fit, but whether it will fit with a 120mm rad in the back, I'm not going to place any bets. There's a lot of room in the case, but the motherboards socket position will be the determining factor for that. If the rad has no fan, you might be able to squeeze it in and use the CPU heatsink fans for some cooling, or even mount the fan outside the case after chopping out the grill, but I don't want to give false hopes. As far as the AP181 goes, fans can always be removed or replaced, don't let those be a dealbreaker of the case. With the right components and coolers in the case, you could easily do without the AP181 and not have any ill effects. I'm also going to say that you wont need a top exhaust fan in the PS07, it has a lot of airflow by itself, you'll want the CPU cooling pointed out the back, and maybe one intake fan in the upper position for them (it comes with two). Make sure the PSU fan is pointed up, and leave the filter on the case, you shouldn't have any problems. Alternatively, you can have the
As far as PCI goes, I'd look towards going PCI-e rather than keeping a PCI sound card. As PCI-E advances and PCI gets dropped more and more, you'll likely begin having trouble with how it works. Also, 90% of the motherboards out now have easily comparable audio to the Xonar series, if not a new X-Fi that runs PCI-E will be cheap enough. I know your pain, with 3 pro audio cards that are PCI, and I'm looking to upgrade, no motherboard will support them if I upgrade.
