Which Case for 8800 GTS?

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December 3rd, 2006, 08:55 AM

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Which Case for 8800 GTS?

I am building my first computer and was wondering which case I should get. For my components I'm thinking about the following:

Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe

Motherboard: EVGA NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX

Video Card: EVGA GeForce 8800GTS

Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4

Memory: Corsair XMS2 DDR2 800 2GB

Hard Drive: HITACHI Deskstar E7K500 500GB 7200 RPM

DVD Drive: (SAMSUNG w/ LightScribe) x 2

Monitor: SAMSUNG 941BW 19"

Power Supply: OCZ GameXStream 700W
Also if anyone has any opinions on any of these feel free to comment or tell me if I should get something else. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Bryce

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Cases are really personal pref. just make sure it has good air flow
and you like it. What cooler are you going to use as some either do not fit or a pain to mod the case.
Hard Drive: HITACHI Deskstar E7K500 500GB 7200 RPM
not a big fan of HITACHI I would go West. Dig. but that also is
just me.

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Originally Posted by cy

Hard Drive: HITACHI Deskstar E7K500 500GB 7200 RPM
not a big fan of HITACHI I would go West. Dig. but that also is
just me.

I'm not a Hitachi fan either, you should go with Seagate or Western Digital. None of my WD's, Seagate's died on me.

Check out Seagate Barracuda's with Perp. Recording. They're awesome.

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i would go with a case with the hard drives bays on the side for more room for the 8800

kinda like this, you might wanna look in cooler master cases, they are very nice.

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[QUOTE=madhyena]I'm not a Hitachi fan either, you should go with Seagate or Western Digital. None of my WD's, Seagate's died on me.

I'm not a big fan of WD as my current notebook has been through four of those. They keep dieing every 4 or 5 months. I am a big fan of Seagate though so I might get that thanks.

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At the moment, in my main rig there is one Seagate Barracuda, in my secondary system there is a Samsung one. We've got 2 more Western Digital's in our house too. With these I've had no problems at all.

But as a side note, I've seen plenty of Maxtors dying.

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newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811124114

I was looking at this one. I like how it has the massive fan on the side. Will this fit all of my stuff especially the 8800 GTS. Thanks

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I have noticed a big difference between notebook(stock ones are slow, cheap and stink) and desktop HDDs I have 2 Seagates, 1 Samsung and 2WD Raptors that I just bought and love them. (Maxtors suck!)

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newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811124114

I was looking at this one. I like how it has the massive fan on the side. Will this fit all of my stuff especially the 8800 GTS. Thanks

looks good, but i dont like the case because its made of steel, my case has the exact same steel and its cheap, and doesnt look good , and its freaking heavy.

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I would switch the sound card to an xfi, there creative's latest and greatest.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16829102188

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you might wanna look in this thread :

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1115861

for your case to be sure it fits.

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Has anyone used the Lian Li PC-60BPLUSII case. It sounds very nice and I think it will fit the 8800 GTS. The GTX looks huge I'm glad the GTS is a little smaller.

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