Posted on 05/06/2010 8:59:32 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yesterday I built a system for my daughter in a Cooler Master ATCS 840 case.. it’s a huge black case, with three 230mm cooling fans and one 120mm cooling fan (has locations for three more 120mm fans). Has six 5.25” front panel spaces, plus seven hard drive spaces inside (no screws required to hold any of the drives in-place). I’d never seen cooling fans that large in a tower case, yet they’re the quietest fans I’ve experienced— you have to listen closely to be sure its running. Motherboard is installed outside the case on a tray, and the tray then rolls in on ball-bearing rollers. She wanted serious cooling, and she got it. (And did I say it’s huge??)
CM makes decent cases. I have access to sheet metal fabrication equipment, so I’ve made my cases for the last few years. Our CAD software is chock full of tower schemas, and they work out quite nicely.
I just looked up that case, and it is truly huge. Reminds me of the pre-AT case days where 5.25” was standard and 3.5” was just coming into play. Those were the days!
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