Anandtech Member Case Gallery!

[philharmonik]

Here's my Antec 900 C2D rig. This is the first version of the Antec 900, before antec thought about wire management
So, I had to cut the holes, route the wires, extend some wires, and reverse the HDD bay.

Here's the Before and After

Before:

lol

After:

side off
side on

Cheezeit

Dude that is awesome work on making the holes for cable management!! My wife has that same case and I would love to know how you did that. Can you take some pics of the places you cut the holes and what tool you used?? I need to do this, the cables are jammed everywhere!

 

[ViviTheMage]

I just got my side panel on my 600T cut/completed :

 

[aferrer]

Been a lurker for a while, decided to finally post my newest build. I call her Quorra. Obviously I moved her away from the wall to get a better shot of her. No optical drive because I do all my OS loading via USB Stick or PXE. This is primarily a game/fun machine. I have two other Linux boxes that do back up, serve files and router/firewall throughout the rest of the house. Noisiest thing in my build is the power supply. Any recommendations on quieter high performing ones?

SPECS
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i7-2600k @ 4.6Ghz on Windows 7 Professional
Asus Maximus IV Extreme
16 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3
2x in crossfire MSI Radeon 6970s 2GB
Creative Labs Soundblaster X-FI Titanium
240 GB OCZ Vertex 3
160 GB Intel 25x-m
Corsair AX1200 Power supply
Corsair 800D Case

COOLING
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EK Supreme HF CPU Block
Swiftech KOMODO 6900 water blocks
Swiftech MCP655 aka D5 water pump
FrozenQ T-virus reservoir
Magicool Extreme 120mm Radiator
XSPC RX360 Extreme Performance Radiator
IandH Silver KillCoils
Primochill green UV Tubing 1/2" OD 3/8" ID
Various Enzotech, Bitspower, Koolance fittings, QDCs etc.
4x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm x 25mm Fan - 1850 RPM
1x Stock Corsair case fan
Scythe Kaze Master Ace Fan Controller

For those interested on what I have it hooked up to
Apple Cinema Display 27"
Logitech Solar Keyboard
Logitech g700 Mouse
Logitech Z506 Speakers
Microsoft XBOX 360 Wireless controller/reciever

 

[adairusmc]

I got my Corsair 800D and AX850 last friday, and with the arrival with some new watercooling parts today, I got my move into the newer, bigger case finished.

Went with a red/black theme this time to match my video cards and my ROG motherboard.

Specs are -

Core i7 860 @ 4.1 Ghz
Asus Maximus III Formula motherboard
8Gb Corsair Dominator-GT
2x XFX 6970 2gb
1x Intel X25-v 40gb SSD
2x 1tb WD black drives
1x 500Gb seagate drive

Samsung 305T Plus monitor, Logitech G15 keyboard, Logitech G9 mouse. Logitech Z5500 speakers.

The water kit started out as an XSPC Rasa 750 RS360 kit, but I upgraded the radiator to an RX360 for this build, and got all new tygon tubing. The 3 120mm fans on the radiator are Aerocool Shark red edition fans, and the 140mm fan on the back of the case is an Enermax T.B. Apollish Red fan.

I am loving the new case though, much better than the Antec 902 I had before.

 

[bleucharm28]

I just wanted to show some of my new toys That's all. My real camera is not working, so I'm using my camera phone. Oh and new tubings, went with black tubing this time.

 

[kittysox]

Here's mine. I've very very pleased with it:sneaky:

Going to add another gpu for quakecon if I can find an ok deal on one.

 

[lsv]

Here's mine. I've very very pleased with it:sneaky:

Going to add another gpu for quakecon if I can find an ok deal on one.

How are temps with the H70? I have a 650D and want to put either an H70 or wait for the H100 and pop that in there.

 

[XLNC]

My modest build in the Fractal R3.

 

[Zargon]

nice and clean!

 

[yottabit]

Here's my custom scratch-built "SlimITX" case for my main :

 

[Zargon]

no internal pic?

 

[yottabit]

no internal pic?

Sure.. it's a little ugly though.

It uses an ITX board, 90 deg PCI-e riser to mount a dual-slot graphics card, and modified 460W 1u server power supply (80 plus rated!). 50mm ball bearing fans in the front keep things cool without being too obnoxious. What you can't see is a mesh grill below the GPU that lets it intake through the bottom of the case, which is elevated ~1/4" on risers.

I plan on making a build log here someday, but there are still a few changes I want to make. I got a spot on [H] for it a while back
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/news/2011/04/29/custom_h_case_day/

In the pics above I have a fan controller mounted in place of a second 3.5" HDD. The idea was to find the right fan values and then replace them with inline resistors but I haven't gotten around to it yet.

 

[Zargon]

very nice! very tight fit!

I am working on a silverstone ml03 build right now and kinda wish I had gone a little larger :awe:

some of the stuff if a real PITA. pulling the mobo to replace ram sucks


thats AWESOME that you fab'd it yourself!

I want to build one maybe next year

 

[yottabit]

very nice! very tight fit!

I am working on a silverstone ml03 build right now and kinda wish I had gone a little larger :awe:

some of the stuff if a real PITA. pulling the mobo to replace ram sucks


thats AWESOME that you fab'd it yourself!

I want to build one maybe next year

Thanks! That case does look like a tight fit. This one isn't too bad to work on because I tried to design it that way You can remove the graphics card, etc without removing anything else.

I didn't do most of the fab myself, an awesome member on [H] volunteered to laser cut/bend/weld/powder coat the case for me for a small fee. It would've been hard to complete the project without his help. The front plate we CNC machined.

I was personally fed up by the lack of a slimline ITX case that could take a good dual slot graphics card and PSU to match. I've never seen another one like it. It was definitely a project, I did it for college credit as an engineering design course and it took the better part of 4-5 months. I have 100s of hours into it, and I would someday like to produce a version that could actually be a marketable case. This one is made out of 1/16" steel and 3/8" aluminum so it's a little expensive

 

[Zargon]

its very nice and you should be proud!

a good friend of mine has a large machine shop, which is why I am thinking about it. all the tools and materials I could dream of at cost, just need time, something I am tooooo short on

 

[dbrons]

Here's my new build. I updated from an Antec P-182. The Antec is more solid, but I love the convenient hard drive section, and cable management in the Fractal Designs

I added a Noiseblocker 140mm fan to the top as an exhaust, and an Akasa Apache Black 120mm on the rear pulling air in through the H-60's radiator. I've ordered another Akasa fan and will add it to the inside for a push-pull on the radiator. One Akasa doesn't quite push the air that Corsair recommends, Just about silent though Oh since the Fratal fan I replace on the rear was an exhaust it had no dust filter so I added one.

 

[muskie32]

Ok, here is my current list of *personal* computers


SR-2 #1 RIG:

SR-2 #2 RIG:

SR-2 #3 RIG:

SR-2 #4 RIG:

980x #1 RIG:

980x #2 RIG:

i7 875K #1 RIG:

i7 2600K #1 RIG

 

[Zargon]

holy crap

 

[Zargon]

my 'new' general use rig, runs my top monitor in my setup via input director, google talk, browsing, and displaying faqs and stuff while in game

Pentium Dual Core E5300
Scythe Big Shuriken SCBSK-1000 120mm CPU Cooler
GIGABYTE GA-G41MT-USB3
G.SKILL ECO Series 2 x 2GB DDR3 1333 1.35v RAM
2x30GB OCZ Vertex 1's(not raided, thinking about doing it later)

getting ready to toss in:
ASUS EAH5450 SILENT Radeon HD 5450 512MB

the PSU is a board from a guy on SPCR, eletrodactus, and a dell LCD power brick.

my setup, since this pic though, obviously I added this machine, and before that, I decided the eyefinity setup was too cloase to my face so I built an extension for desk, adding a foot of space on the back, and the top shelf is just over 3 inches deeper, going from 11.5 to 15 3/4. I also added a wall mount and a 28: LCD over the 23.6" trips, I really need an up to date picture damnit. swear I had one but I guess not

edit: replaced desk pic with up to date setup

 

[beany323]

Tagan Black Pearl.......i'd never before considered a WC PC......until I saw this! maybe next build....TJ06 wind tunnel for now....

on these components for this style of wc. hope someone can help!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I don't have much to show for my cases, so here's my whole setup as a whole.

Workstation:



Yes, that's a custom power bar on top of that UPS. 16 outlets, split into two banks. One is UPS protected while the other is surge protected only.


And here's my server "room". I still have to build the "room" part of it. Probably going to be double walled with 4 inch spaced studs, and a secret heavy duty magnetically locked door, for security purposes.



From top to bottom:

- Patch panel on the back
- bunch of routing/switching equipment on the back... eventually want to replace with a single 24 port managed switch
- Firewall (pfsense)
- removable disk dock, for backups
- main server, it runs all my VMs and does everything except run the kitchen sink's faucet
- Supermicro Atom server just running a basic Linux distro for mdadm
- Sphereon fiber channel switch, not in use
- 4x IBM SAN enclosures connected to that 1U supermicro box via fiber channel (that box acts as the SAN head basically) TBH, it's more there because it looks cool. I would not trust it for anything valuable given it's really old and it wont handle any other drives but ones designed for it. Got it for free, so meh. I use the first enclosure for an occasional backup of my whole environment. It's about 4TB raid 6. The other 3 I don't really use and arn't even partitioned.

 

[Drifto570]

My "basic" PC =/

Core i7 950 D0
Gigabyte GA-X58-USB3
3x2GB G.Skill 1600MHz
EVGA GTX 570
Coolermaster HAF922
Corsair TX950


=)

 

[MODist]

Wooden chest from TJ-max
I7 2600K @4.9Ghz Megahalems Rev.B
Asus P8P67-m pro
16GB DDR3 1600
2 x 500GB Seagate HD raid 0
2 x GTX 280 SLI
DVD/CD drive
650W powersupply

Antec 300 with custom Koolance rad mod Swiftech Apogee XT block
I7 930 @ 4.2Ghz
Asus Rampage II GENE 1366 X58
12GB DDR1333
2 x GTX 280 SLI
2TG WD green drive
Antec 850 PS
DVD/CD drive

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Wooden Box? LOL

 

[zCypher]

wooden case

that's really cool!