My ideal case doesn't exist - I have high-level requirements

[MichaelD]

Yeah, I should be patient, true. But Directron has a habit (at least with me) of making me wait a week only to tell me "We dont' have it...dunno when we'll have it." So I have to be proactive with them. I already emailed them.

I also bought two 5-drive SATA cages so that bumped the total order cost up. Newegg's shipping is ridiculous; Directron's is much more reasonable, so i tend to order heavy stuff from them.

The case does seem to be really nice. One thing that I think the case has, but is not described, is a fan fail/temp monitoring board.

If you look at the pics on Newegg, one pic shows 4 jumpers. Where would you use jumpers on a CASE? Look at this pic, and under the 120mm fans, you can just barely make out what appears to be a small PCB with wires going to it. :Q This caught my eye right off the bat.

Don't know if I'm correct or not (I think I am) but we'll find out. It's a bummer that HEC's page/site doesn't have a downloadable manual for the case. Google search hasn't turned anything up, either. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Yeah, I should be patient, true. But Directron has a habit (at least with me) of making me wait a week only to tell me "We dont' have it...dunno when we'll have it." So I have to be proactive with them. I already emailed them.

I also bought two 5-drive SATA cages so that bumped the total order cost up. Newegg's shipping is ridiculous; Directron's is much more reasonable, so i tend to order heavy stuff from them.

The case does seem to be really nice. One thing that I think the case has, but is not described, is a fan fail/temp monitoring board.

If you look at the pics on Newegg, one pic shows 4 jumpers. Where would you use jumpers on a CASE? Look at this pic, and under the 120mm fans, you can just barely make out what appears to be a small PCB with wires going to it. :Q This caught my eye right off the bat.

Don't know if I'm correct or not (I think I am) but we'll find out. It's a bummer that HEC's page/site doesn't have a downloadable manual for the case. Google search hasn't turned anything up, either. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

Ah, if my eyes don't decieve I think i see 6 fan headers down there. I wonder if it's just molex powered or what.

 

[MichaelD]

Believe me, I'm dying to know!!! I can't find a single review on this case; maybe my Googling skills aren't that great, but I've been looking hard.

I'm assuming the stock fans are at least 4-5K rpm...that's a pretty decent amperage draw (for fans), though nothing a single molex connector can't hande.

I'm most probably replacing them with the 3 Antecs I ordered. I'm going to need some decent CFM to keep everything cool; that's where the 3-speed Antecs come in.

Maybe I won't need as much CFM as much as I'm thinking I might. One of the reasons I got the case is it's airflow design. A solid front-to-rear setup. No side fans or anything like that.

It can't get here fast enough!!!