looks like a ton of plastic I like clean and simple design

Minor price difference compared to the 430. The dock is well worth the premium. A dock bought separately would cost more and require another wire to power it up

Heavy to the point where it's very dangerous to move alone Some guys can't even move my rig

I have had MANY Lian Li and Silverstone. Aluminum looks and feels nice but extremely hard to maintain. Additionally, their chassis always FLEX because of the light weight material. I'd sold all of them, besides a Silverstone Lascala HTPC casing. I even just sold an A05 and changed to a CM Silencio 550.

I prefer the rigidness of solid steel casing. Not many casing can beat the 800D for water cooling. I could add two more external 480 rads to it

Maybe a handful of them are rigid. Most of them can be flexed one way or anything. Try to flex an 800D

This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Dec 17 2011, 11:42 AM

600T is hard to beat at this price. Excellent build quality and cable management

If you want a good air cooling case you need to get a single chamber case.

- Corsair 400R, 500R, 600T, 650D (400R/500R with 11 fans)
- CM 690 II Advanced

There are many other casings but these are some we know are decent air cooling casing. The 400R/500R are probably the best air cooling casing. The CM690 II is just as good. One thing the 690 II does better than Corsair is that it allows 2 x 240mm radiator for WC in the future.

A customer of mine has a brand new one for sale if anybody is interested.

The material isn't really going to affect the cooling capacity of the casing. If you couple the heat source to the aluminum chassis then yes the aluminum chassis will sink the heat better but being surrounded by aluminum vs steel would make little difference in the case's cooling properties.

Corsair 650D, CM 431 Elite, CM Silencio 550, CM HAF-X, possibly a couple more.

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Added on January 7, 2012, 10:47 pmArguably 400R is better in air cooling but 690 II will kill it once you go WC.

This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Jan 7 2012, 10:47 PM

GTX580 in a RM200 casing = Evo engine in a Wira chassis.

Stick to best casings in this price range = 400R/692A

rv02, ft02, tj11, a05n (previous gen), xspc h2, ldpc v8. Some bitfenix casings.

tj07 modded.

800D is less than 1000. Decide in whether you want to go watercooling, picking a casing depends on whether you wanna go air or wc.

If you dont wanna do wc, there are many casings available.

You can gain about 50% improvement in cpu speed going wc.

These are some casings that are good for wc and can house radiators internally (more than one rad)

Cm 692a, trooper, haf x, cosmos 2, corsair 800d, xigmatek elysium, tj07, tj11, xspc h1, h2, ldpc v8. There may be more but these are some common choices that I can recall. Price is rm300+, 500+, 900+, 1300+, 1500+, 2000+

Ldpc v8 is rm2k+. The xspc h2 is about the same but 1k cheaper

Looks like Corsair 650D

Cosmos II - RM9xx

I believe we were the first to build a WC Cosmos II so yeah it's been here since a few weeks ago

< RM900 with bundle isn't really <RM 900 on the casing. Many dealers can offer such option

Yup, next week got more coming in. You must have missed this bro!


Cooler Master Cosmos II


We fit an RX360 on top and an RX240 in the bottom. If you don't mind drilling the fan bracket column out on the bottom you can install 2 x 240mm radiator in the bottom.

This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Feb 2 2012, 06:40 PM

You have to drill out the rivet from the top and bottom of the column. It will just fall off. You can secure it back with screws in the future.

Did someone say Aerocool Strike-X One Advanced?






This post has been edited by CyntrixTech: Apr 15 2012, 04:01 PM