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[Condor Baggins]

http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=6606

It's getting delivered tomorrow, cannot wait to experience something other than a £9 afterthought when you realised your build has gone over budget...

[Wooster]

 

"It has a rugged strong appearance and outstanding protection designs that characterize a beast yet to be tamed."

Oh dear..

It has some really nice technical features though.  



-edit- I'm removing the FUGLY remark...it's not too bad tbh. (The advertising blurb is still woeful though.. )

[Condor Baggins]

It'll do the job, it's one of the few that actually has 3 good fans included so that was what swung it for me compared to others which were similarly priced.

Ordered another 4gb of RAM as well.

[Roscop]

You now have the room in that beast to fit a water cool setup  I would hope there is better cable management than appears on the pictures for a case that price (although thats just my preference, I need to hide as much cabling as I can)

[Condor Baggins]

You now have the room in that beast to fit a water cool setup  

My thoughts exactly.  

I bought one that is future proof and will last me a good 4 or 5 years. I'll be going water-cooled if and when the opportunity arises and is appropriate.

[keasy]

Never understood the attraction to water cooling.

Anyway I was determined not post in this thread and now I just did.

Why, you ask ?

Because there's something doesn't feel right about posting in a thread about Condor's box 


 

[Condor Baggins]

Could be worse, could be about a new club, or bat, or stick, or rod, or pole, or even penis.*

Watercooling seems to be the way everyone is heading nowadays with the big processors being able to be clocked sky high and kept stable under load.














*The last option is highly unlikely because I'm happy with what I have. 

[keasy]

Watercooling seems to be the way everyone is heading nowadays with the big processors being able to be clocked sky high and kept stable under load.

Nonsense !

 

The price of water-cooling means you could buy a higher end CPU in the first place with a decent HSF anyway.  It's all just PC bling, nothing else....IMO 

[Condor Baggins]

I won't be doing it unless it's appropriate. 

There's only so far a fan can go anyway.

[corroded]

Haha, people have been watercooling for years saying the extra same things. I need this, so I can do 'this'... a bit of overclocking is fun, and but you really have to cherry pick components for the best overclocks, and usually they don't come cheap. There are exceptions, I mean, everyone remembers the £70 Barton 2500+ Mobile... or more accurately, the steal of the century. You tend to find you need very specific memory, and luck with a processor (with a nice bin... and people who overclock often and for records I suspect go through multiple processors to find their best one, selling the other on), as well as a decent clocking board with high amounts of customisability.

It's more for the challenge than anything else... building a bespoke water cooled rig has appealed to me... even in fact has a peltier based system but you need a lot of patience and skill. A decent watercooling customer setup, with GPU and CPU cooling, including all the radiators, fittings, reservoirs, water blocks and a pump isn't going to give much change from £200-300.

If you're keen on water cooling something, to get a little more performance I would suspect one of the corsair self contained units would probably do a job. It won't be bespoke, but it has the bonus of being a sealed unit and not £200 without even considering you're going to lose probably two weekends on a) installing it b) testing it for a considerable amount of time before you even put it in the case c) installing it in the case.

I wanted some kind of phase change cooling system for my Barton, and apart from the £400 price tag there was a small consideration of whether or not I wanted 80 degrees temperature difference in my case making some lovely condensation possible. You have to be so careful.

I still use my Lian Li as a case. Fantastic case I bought nearly 8 years ago, and still going strong. It did cost me quite a lot in my summer job back then, but turns out at £15 a year it's not been a crap investment, even when I found out two years later BTX was coming. Then it wasn't heard of again. Only thing I slightly rue about it is I do lose access to a couple of hard drive bays when you put in a stupid sized graphics card. Though, I did install a hot swap caddy bay which actually have alievated most of the problem, although does mean I only can have one optical drive (though, I don't really see the need for two any more... most of the time the only disk that ever goes into this PC is a OS disk)

Nice features on the case there Con... in my younger years I'd have gone for something similar (although... when I bought this one I did buy it under the aging affect that I'd want something less...angry)

[Condor Baggins]

Just got delivered, much bigger than I anticipated. 

At least I'll have room in there to manoeuvre now!