Case size - How big is too big?

[medjohnson77]

Well I am very happy with my case, I built it out of Aluminum and lined it with Granite. Kinda liked the mountain mod case's so that's is what I went with with designing my case and building it. I am getting ready to build another one... will it be this big this time around, not sure yet, but I have alot of Ideas from having this one for 2 years now.

http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii230/medjohnson77/?action=view&current=2009-08-2520-58-58282.mp4

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii230/medjohnson77/007-9.jpg

 

[flong]

Well I am very happy with my case, I built it out of Aluminum and lined it with Granite. Kinda liked the mountain mod case's so that's is what I went with with designing my case and building it. I am getting ready to build another one... will it be this big this time around, not sure yet, but I have alot of Ideas from having this one for 2 years now.

http://s265.photobucket.com/albums/ii230/medjohnson77/?action=view&current=2009-08-2520-58-58282.mp4

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii230/medjohnson77/007-9.jpg

Hmmmm, that is one of the most interesting mods that I have seen and those huge water cooling pipes - I bet that baby stays ice cold. Do you work for the Department of Defense lol. It looks like some kind of supercomputer set up. Thanks for sharing it.

I guess the only downside is that you can't take it to LAN parties ha, ha.

 

[MU_Engineer]

I had never realized just how big some of the full tower cases were until now. I have my system in an Antec 300, my roommate has an Antec 902. I went home over break, come back and find his friend had brought over his desktop, its an absolutely massive HAF X. Now, I had always thought that a full tower would be nice, a bit more space to work with, some better airflow, but now that i look at this beast im pretty sure i could lay my 300 in there and not have it touch the hard drive bays or the PSU.

Im curious who here has had experience working in full towers and does it justify the fact that its about the right height to serve as a spare leg for my desk?

Also, at what point do you consider the cases to be too big? It took until today for me to realize, maybe sometimes a full tower is a bit tooo big.

Naw, a HAF isn't big. It's just a full-tower ATX case is all. 10 years ago we were all using cases of that size, although most of them were taller and less deep as they had the PSU on top of the MB and the drive cages above the PSU instead of in front of it. I like big cases as they give you plenty of room to work in and will fit extended ATX motherboards.

If you want to see big, look at some of the extra-wide Mountain Mods cases or server cases that will fit four-socket boards. I have one of the latter (Chenming ATX-801F) and it is as tall as the old full-tower ATX cases, as deep as modern full-tower ATX cases, and about twice as wide as either.

That's a 12x13" EATX motherboard in there in case you want a size reference 😀