Ethereal_Dragon
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I put in a few orders at the Egg today.....
Got my wife a birthday present for next month (http://www.techist.com/forums/f64/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-a-261942/#post1998081), got myself a bunch of extra internal power cable extensions, and fan splitter cables, and SATA cables with the right angle connector. Had a code good for 20% off cables which I had to use by today, so that caused me to pull the trigger.
I couldn't get JUST cables, I saw that a case I REALLY LIKE had an instant $40 off, and a $20 MIR, so I jumped on that too. I will be replacing my Antec 900 with anAntec P280. I used one of these in my brothers computer build a few months back. I wanted to build his computer in the Antec 900 I have and kept the P280, but that wouldn't have been cool... LOL. I would NEVER do that anyways.
So, I got one for myself. I was SOLD on the fact that it has removable fan filters, something that is an ABSOLUTE MUST in my house with the pets. I HAD filters in my 900, but the fact that it took 30+ minutes to disassemble the case and get them out to clean was too frustrating, so I removed them for good. Also, while I thought the LED fans were cool back when I got it a few years ago, it doesn't allow for stealth running, the wife can easily see it's on with the blue LED's at night. Also, the case door is TOO CLOSE to the motherboard tray. In the P280, there is a HUGE amount of space behind the mobo tray, so that was a near instant sell as well, as are the easily removable HDD trays.
So I might be putting my 900 up for sale sometime soon, as I don't forsee myself re-using the case. Anyone interested? FYI, it is the PRE USB 3.0 case. This is version 1.01 of this case, 1.0 from the factory, and modded a bit by me, painted it black, made some cut outs on the mobo tray as well, and on the HDD trays so I could mount the drives backwards and hide the cables.
Got my wife a birthday present for next month (http://www.techist.com/forums/f64/samsung-galaxy-note-10-1-a-261942/#post1998081), got myself a bunch of extra internal power cable extensions, and fan splitter cables, and SATA cables with the right angle connector. Had a code good for 20% off cables which I had to use by today, so that caused me to pull the trigger.
I couldn't get JUST cables, I saw that a case I REALLY LIKE had an instant $40 off, and a $20 MIR, so I jumped on that too. I will be replacing my Antec 900 with anAntec P280. I used one of these in my brothers computer build a few months back. I wanted to build his computer in the Antec 900 I have and kept the P280, but that wouldn't have been cool... LOL. I would NEVER do that anyways.
So, I got one for myself. I was SOLD on the fact that it has removable fan filters, something that is an ABSOLUTE MUST in my house with the pets. I HAD filters in my 900, but the fact that it took 30+ minutes to disassemble the case and get them out to clean was too frustrating, so I removed them for good. Also, while I thought the LED fans were cool back when I got it a few years ago, it doesn't allow for stealth running, the wife can easily see it's on with the blue LED's at night. Also, the case door is TOO CLOSE to the motherboard tray. In the P280, there is a HUGE amount of space behind the mobo tray, so that was a near instant sell as well, as are the easily removable HDD trays.
So I might be putting my 900 up for sale sometime soon, as I don't forsee myself re-using the case. Anyone interested? FYI, it is the PRE USB 3.0 case. This is version 1.01 of this case, 1.0 from the factory, and modded a bit by me, painted it black, made some cut outs on the mobo tray as well, and on the HDD trays so I could mount the drives backwards and hide the cables.