So I am looking to build a new machine and I am not too sure to which to get. The Machine will have 4x HD's and 2xOptical media drives. The two Case's I am torn between a CM Stacker or an Akasa Eclipse 62, so which would you go for? I want to make it as quiet as possible but I can't afford watercooling at the moment so which case is easiest to make quiet? Stu Akasa Eclipse 62 Stacker
you dont, but i do sorted moving this to modding as well, as i think its a bit more suited there and you may get better or more replies (its a close call though)
Akasa! Have one sitting under my desk is a great case. Shame I'm having to sell it (can't afford to put a system inside it). Very very well made (it's rebadged Globalwin) and extremely well designed.
stacker. the other thing has this fugly strip down the front, as in on the side. plus you can't go wrong with coolermaster. and that ventalation and expansion room.
I had this choise, but ended up with the Eclipse. The stacker cost slightly more, and i didnt need all the room anyway ^_^ Main features i was after was the two 120mm fans and the removable mobo tray, and also the room with the Eclipse, which is very roomy.
i bought a stacker and i have never been more impressed with a case, there are so many options to mod on this case and plenty of room for everything, looks cool unmodded also
Thanks for the replies guys. I am leaning towards the stacker myself and it looks like you guys have swung it in that direction
I've been looking at the Eclipse. The stacker is just a little to big for me and I'm a big fan of anyhting based on globalwin stuff. I think of the two that'd be the easiest to make quiet as the entire frontage of the stacker is mesh which isn't exactly going to insulate noise...
I'm keeping my Eclipse now, it's a great case. With a little modding it can be awesome. Just need to save up for a system to put inside now.
pros+++ stacker has many options open for a creative solution of whatever stuff you put in it. nice looking easy to work with light weight cons--- expensive aluminium which scratches easily read a review somewere that it had a very hard to take of front panel, anybody got any experience with that as well? then there is the noise factor with all those front bays if you put some hardisks in that 4:3 rack as is optional next computer would like my next computer to be as silent as possible with alot of processing power for games and rendering as in 3D studio MAX 7 etc, have tried a demo and it took 10 hours to render a 6 second animation at 15 fps with my friends AXP 2000+ with 512 RAM, but then i might need a rendering farm of computers in a network to get some sort of useful 3D power when raytracing photo realistic environment with realworld physics. so it seams i will be going into watercooling wheater a like it or not... and then stacker seems like a great alternative, then again there are some nice looking Lian Li:s... PCV1000 which maybe is an even better solution... my computer a P3 1Ghz 512 RAM, noisy gforce 4600 ultra 128MB in an Aopen HX-08 case with 4 hardisks in a metal harddiskrack which makes really alot of noise, all 3 ibm 60GXP and 1 ibm 120GXP which are cooled with 2 silent 80mm panoflo fans, above the powersupply ISO 500W with 120mm fan. got a zalman heatpipe gpu cooler waiting to be installed but all my flatcables... 2 raid 0 and 2 scsi and 1 SB Live Drive cable in a stacker it would be so much better cablemanagement but it seams as a waste of money for an obsolete computer anyway i would vote for the stacker
I have to vote for the stacker. It's a wonderful case and I'm still impressed by it's size. Just so much space.
The satcker gives you so much space and freedom, you can put the power supply in the top or the bottom adn install a whopping great cpu cooler like a Zalman. Get the stacker it is a beautiful object.
