Oooh boy. That, and the Cosmos S are perhaps the largest and heaviest cases I’ve seen. Lots of room to work in, and I hear the cooling’s great, but I don’t think I could justify spending $250 CDN on it
Merneith, I love the New Solution cases! I find Antec makes really nice cases, and chooses 120mm fans over the more traditional 80 or 90mm, and it makes a definite difference in the sound! With the thickness of the steel, there’s actually NO sound until you stick your head about a foot from the back of the PC
It was a bit tricky, but I was able to get all my power cords running underneath. I did have to push them down when I slid the back panel back into place, though.
I also have a GTX 260, and if it weren’t for being able to route cables behind the motherboard, I’m not sure how I would have ever gotten everything in place. I agree completely about it being a monster. Still, I can’t complain too much now that I’ve got everything up and running – my last video card was a GF4 Ti4600, so this was a huge quality leap for me.
I have one of the Coolermaster Cosmos series. Not the one linked, but same body, bought Sept 07 for around $100 with some rebate/bonus deal at Newegg. The thing is huge. The handles make it look portable, but really they’re included to cover them for possible back injuries. That’s really my only complaint with it though. I just need to shut it down long enough to clean the fans. They’ve been getting louder.
My intent when I bought it was to never buy another case again, and it should hold up to that. The last one I owned was a decent Antec case, but the fatal flaw was metal-on-metal construction. Eventually vibration made it unbearable. I had bits of paper all arranged in it to keep the sound down, but it had to go. The Cosmos has rubber seals throughout.
I’ve been tempted to switch to water cooling just for the silence. Decided it’d be too much hassle though. At least I know I have extra space for it in this monster.
I spent 2002 working on PCs, and have scars to prove it from those puzzle-box cases with sharp edges. Ugh. Especially the cheap older HPs, Dells, etc.
Indeed. They’re not that bad to shuffle around in a computer store, unless you have to stack them 3 or 4 high. It’s when the tech installs everything inside (with the 4 disk RAID system the customer ordered, and double DVD-RW drives, of course…) that it gets unbearably heavy.
But then again, last time I had to lift one of those up to a counter, I was a puny weakling…
