"Life 30000 Hours"

Am I alone in feeling that ~3½ years seems like a short life for what I assume is the fan?

And what happened to that review MikeC?
I can't find it on the site...

I find it almost impossible to read an article with adverts flashing away down the sides. I have no choice but to block. I couldn't go back now. My problem is that I usually have anywhere between 30 and 150 tabs open at any time. If I allow ads and Flash (also blocked until I click something) all t...

I bought a 501LJ for my system and a 321KJ for one I'm building for a friend. I 've had quite a bit of trouble with the combination of these drives and Gigabyte 965P-DS4 (ICH8R-based) motherboards. It might just be that I'm less savvy than I thought, but via help from a few people on the ArsTechnica...

Can't really blame them can you? You should always store the receipts for all the stuff you own that's under warranty. If I throw the receipt away and an item breaks I blame myself, not the company. I don't think there's anything you can do. I agree with xcgames though, if they have a system capable...

Let's not confuse whining with buzzing... it's not the same thing.

Honestly, I don't concider it normal for CRTs to be noisy, and I have very good hearing. I've never seen a CRT TV that wasn't noisy - 50Hz sets whine like hell, 100Hz sets can be heard buzzing a bit if you get close enough - but good CRT monitors at high refresh? I've never noticed anything - at lea...

True, but to be honest, if your budget is so low that you have to settle for less that 85Hz at your preferred resolution, you might have a hard time finding a monitor that is "quiet". Also remember that any high pitched whine (not talking about buzzing) from the CRT usually tends to go away (out of ...

sorry. i got sony g200 17" its the best CRT ever made - fact! 8) so your saying your CRT buzzes like a honeybee breeding? I'd go as far as to say that my FW900 is a bit better :wink: No buzzing here either. Buzzing is mostly present in cheap low quality CRTs or very old ones. I don't get the point ...

So your argument is that the transfer of vibration to the metal isn't a problem, because the panels are so 'dead'?

Uhm, that was exactly my point. Most of the fans are mounted directly to the metal of the case - around here's that's concidered bad. They should have been softmounted somehow...

I get your point, but I'm not really sure I buy it.

They decided to make the tabs plastic for sonic reasons, but mounted the fans directly to the case/ to vibrating plastic?

So, how do you like it compared to the modded Compucase LX-6A19?

And better yet: it's also appearing on some european pages (dutch pages specifically). Where? I want one yesterday, but I cant find a european retailer! So far, I've only seen them available for pre-order at Dutch stores. Not that odd, I believe their European destribution center is in Holland, at ...

amplemind wrote: I'm not too concerned about system noise, just look and performance for around a $800-900 price range.

Sounds like you're in the wrong place then And I see no reason for you to be looking much at these cases if you're not interested in silent computing.

Sounds like alarmingly bad QC...

Many of those plastic parts look very fragile - far more so than I would expect on a case in this price range - check out the close up of the door hinge... Actually, I'm surprised at the amount of plastic. I hadn't realized that the entire top panel was plastic too. Does the case look as "cheap" as ...

I'd say the odd thing is that the list price they quote is $120... quite far below the official one that has been thrown around quite a bit.

art4242 wrote:It's finally here, I have one in my hands now.
-Art

So how do the panels feel? sturdy? or cheap and flimsy?

I don't like it but they deserve credit for thinking out of the box (hehe)...

Anyway, for what it’s worth, they reckon the door and side panels feel “a little flimsy”. That's actually very dissappointing to me. If I pay a alot of money for a nice case, I want it to feel like quality, not cheap shit like the SuperLanboy sitting next to me :( I hope the panels are stiffer and ...

So, Is Ralf Hutter one of the reviewers on this?

MassMan wrote:Will the black spcr version become available in europe (more specifically, Scandinavia)?

Or perhaps we should organize a group buy... let's wait and see.

Zhentar wrote: 1. Will that positioning of the PSU give enough room for 120mm fan PSUs?

According to the article, yes.

Yeeeesss! There is a black version :D but... The Black version P180 will be exclusive to the SPCR brand until after the end of 2005. Since the SPCR version is exclusive to a Canadian retailer and one in the U.S., does this mean that the black version won't be available in Europe before 2006 unless y...

My point was that the TJ06 (as far as I know) is priced lower that the P180 is going to be... Thus the comparison.

For reference, 1.5 times a Sonata in Denmark would be $218...

Iain wrote: At that price it better make the tea as well

Really?
I expect it to retail at 20-40% more than that here in Denmark. We have to pay around £101 or $190 for a case like Silverstone's TJ06.

Rusty075 wrote: 54cm H (21.3") x 20.5cm W (8.1") x 50.7cm D (19.9") according to the Antec press packet they handed out at CES.

Ah, I actually thought it would be bigger... I hope there's room enough in this thing for me. Coming from a small POS Antec Super Lanboy I feel a need to compensate :p

Oh yeah, for those who don't know:

This is a Pentium M based SSF system...

Sorry if this is a doublepost but I'm not seeing this mentioned anywhere and I'm not sure the thread about the Tweakers.net article is about the same version so: Techreport.com reviews AOpen's XC Cube EY855-II And it gets some nice comments : There are many small form factor systems that look good e...