I bought my GlobalWin 802 case in early 2001. It was a top flight case back then and I bought it to house an Athlon AXIA 1Ghz, that I later pushed to over 1.4Ghz on an old Abit KG7.
Now at the end of 2009 this case has seen 3 different platforms inside it, along with around 5 CPU's, but I was getting tired of 80mm fan noise and general restriction. The cooling was not up to par and my hard drives were suffering. It currently has an E6400 @3,2Ghz in it and that gets up to 77c when loaded in Prime95. Something had to give.
I'm a little misty eyed about this as it has been, for all intents and purposes, a good case. It just doesn't meet my requirements in 2010 and beyond.
Anyway, here is the old faithful, prior to gutting:
And the insides:
Here is a shot of the old and the new, side by side:
Here, most of the components had been transplanted and I was working out which way to route cables:
Complete!
Fired up and glowing:
All in all I really like the case. The tool less drive mounts, the space for 8 HDD's before you reconfigure anything and the massive cooling from the 6 supplied fans is great. It looks good, too.
On to temps, now P95 runs at 67-69c so up to 10c lower, and mobo temp is 12c above ambient. Nt only that, but the new case is very much quieter than the previous 80mm noise fest. HDD temps have dropped significantly,too.
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Now at the end of 2009 this case has seen 3 different platforms inside it, along with around 5 CPU's, but I was getting tired of 80mm fan noise and general restriction. The cooling was not up to par and my hard drives were suffering. It currently has an E6400 @3,2Ghz in it and that gets up to 77c when loaded in Prime95. Something had to give.
I'm a little misty eyed about this as it has been, for all intents and purposes, a good case. It just doesn't meet my requirements in 2010 and beyond.
Anyway, here is the old faithful, prior to gutting:
And the insides:
Here is a shot of the old and the new, side by side:
Here, most of the components had been transplanted and I was working out which way to route cables:
Complete!
Fired up and glowing:
All in all I really like the case. The tool less drive mounts, the space for 8 HDD's before you reconfigure anything and the massive cooling from the 6 supplied fans is great. It looks good, too.
On to temps, now P95 runs at 67-69c so up to 10c lower, and mobo temp is 12c above ambient. Nt only that, but the new case is very much quieter than the previous 80mm noise fest. HDD temps have dropped significantly,too.
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