Honestly dude, I have a bigger bet on the world ending in December 2012 then gpu mining becoming completely worthless.
What do you guys think about buying a case such as the cooler master suggested and adding storage for cards on the left door by expanding? I am thinking I will give that type of mod a try on an ancient pentium ii full tower that I have this week and see how it goes. I'm hoping for a little cleaner look than chunks of wood though lol!
Topic: Best big mining case? Airflow? Other parts? Open discussion welcomed. - page 2. (Read 5841 times)
October 08, 2012, 08:25:34 PM
October 08, 2012, 08:15:28 PM
I have all full tower gaming cases and my current plan was to simply bolt on another mid tower to put extra cards in, then install extra fans and panels sort of like a pushout section in a modern RV.
I keep scratching my head trying to figure out why people are still adding on more GPU capacity.
In about seven weeks is halving day, otherwise known as GPU retirement day.
October 08, 2012, 08:14:39 PM
Coolermaster HAF-932 Advanced Full Tower
Little on the pricey side, but one hell of a good case for overall circulation
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119213
Little on the pricey side, but one hell of a good case for overall circulation
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811119213
October 08, 2012, 07:47:11 PM
I just ripped apart an ancient case from like 15 years ago. It was huge and full ATX and I removed quite a few panels from it like the front and top. Then I added a wooden frame around the top and dremeled in a small slit for the edge of the PCI card. Then I used 16x -> 1x risers and put 2 huge, high powered fans underneath the cards, blowing up, sitting on top the motherboard with shin wooden dowel stilts 
It ran cooler than most I've seen here.
I really don't think that anyone should run any overclocked card or really even a standard clocked card at 100% 24/7 inside of a case but if you really wanted to, the Rosewill Challenger is the best for the money. It's huge and has so many fan mounts that $30 worth of fans will get the air evacuated from the case at a rate of all of it every 1.5 seconds. It's usually only like $50 on sale too. Without a fan blowing directly onto the card though, you're probably not going to get great cooling unless the card's fan spins way up, which is not good for it.
It ran cooler than most I've seen here.I really don't think that anyone should run any overclocked card or really even a standard clocked card at 100% 24/7 inside of a case but if you really wanted to, the Rosewill Challenger is the best for the money. It's huge and has so many fan mounts that $30 worth of fans will get the air evacuated from the case at a rate of all of it every 1.5 seconds. It's usually only like $50 on sale too. Without a fan blowing directly onto the card though, you're probably not going to get great cooling unless the card's fan spins way up, which is not good for it.
October 08, 2012, 07:30:54 PM
I keep running into the same problem with my mining builds and that is that I want a clean way to mount additional cards with risers. How do you all cope? I'd prefer to use a "real" case for most of my builds but this is not a necessity. Is there a case that is "double wide" to allow an additional layer of expansion cards? I have all full tower gaming cases and my current plan was to simply bolt on another mid tower to put extra cards in, then install extra fans and panels sort of like a pushout section in a modern RV. What is your favorite case on amazon?
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