Aerocool ExtremEngine Silver ATX Mid-Tower Case with 250mm Side Fan, Front USB, Firewire and Audio Ports

Customer Reviews:

Atomic battries to "power" turbines to "speed"! [Posted on 2006-05-30]
the turbo-fan theme is very attractive yet the funtional and practical ability of this case is not there(as Tom's Hardware mentioned). The front is a twin door array opening to the drive bay. I hate doors! The aluminum is only a look, the interior is steel. The huge and rather attractive, yet inposing "Turbine" fans are just that and as loud as "Starship Icaris" crashing into the sea in "Planet of the Apes". In other words use headphones. Oh I assume your getting it to play games. I suggest "Top Gun" Ha! The system does an adequet job at cooling hot CPUs as the AMD and Intel but Intel's benifits most from the rediculous side fan. AMD's often are better off with foreward\rear fan assemblies at equal pressure(2 120mm front\rear or 4 80mm frontx2\rear x2) Video cards these days are hot yet most cases seem not to incude side fans (anymore) why not you ask? Becasue the are totally unnessasary and do litte to cool the system as a whole it is better to distribute air evenly front to rear, though a dual RAID 0 config(4 hard disks) like mine needs the extra cooling power becasue of blockage to the front end of the case). You need to figure out your needs first. I suggest if you have only one or two hard drives to look elsewhere if you have an Intel or MAYBE AMD and 4 or 5 hard disks look at the nice(and highly prestegous) Ultra Aluminus cases they have M/B and CPU cooling as well as Video cards ventalation ports. Though again, Intel benefits more at this stuff. I suggest a Zalman fan to benifit AMD's. Hard disk cooling fans is also good with proper front space for the front main fan to reach the CPU (which mine does not have). Get 7 3.5" bays 6 internal, the 5.25 ones are useless anyway. If you like airplanes go to Falcon Northwest, they'll fix you up a nice PC with better functionality and a better case.

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