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August 30, 2013 12:24:55 PM

I am getting a Storm Stryker. I am not planning on moving it at all, like going to LAN parties, it's not going anywhere. I heard that this case is only recommended for them. Is that true?

Also, should I get bottom mounted fan that the case doesn't include or should I just stay with the fans it already came with?

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August 30, 2013 7:19:35 PM

At 30.2 pounds, I don't think this is an easy case to take to LAN parties. It has a carrying handle and you will appreciate it when you carry/lug it out to the garage to blow dust out of it sometime down the road. I wouldn't pay much attention to the claims that it is just for LAN's.
A very cool case, mechanically, appearance, and cooling; especially with filters on the bottom for the PSU mount; be sure to mount the PSU (assuming it has a fan on the top/bottom, as opposed to the back by the switch) with the fan down so it suck cool air in through the filtered vent and blows it out the case to the rear.
Since it doesn't have a side panel fan option, you could mount that bottom fan; but with just one intake fan (front) and that huge exhaust on the top and the one in the rear, natural airflow will allow cool air to enter that bottom vent even without another fan.
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August 30, 2013 8:58:58 PM

nostall said:
At 30.2 pounds, I don't think this is an easy case to take to LAN parties. It has a carrying handle and you will appreciate it when you carry/lug it out to the garage to blow dust out of it sometime down the road. I wouldn't pay much attention to the claims that it is just for LAN's.
A very cool case, mechanically, appearance, and cooling; especially with filters on the bottom for the PSU mount; be sure to mount the PSU (assuming it has a fan on the top/bottom, as opposed to the back by the switch) with the fan down so it suck cool air in through the filtered vent and blows it out the case to the rear.
Since it doesn't have a side panel fan option, you could mount that bottom fan; but with just one intake fan (front) and that huge exhaust on the top and the one in the rear, natural airflow will allow cool air to enter that bottom vent even without another fan.


Umm... so you want me to get a bottom fan? but you said I need to mount the PSU on the bottom...
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August 30, 2013 10:12:23 PM

PcMe said:
nostall said:
At 30.2 pounds, I don't think this is an easy case to take to LAN parties. It has a carrying handle and you will appreciate it when you carry/lug it out to the garage to blow dust out of it sometime down the road. I wouldn't pay much attention to the claims that it is just for LAN's.
A very cool case, mechanically, appearance, and cooling; especially with filters on the bottom for the PSU mount; be sure to mount the PSU (assuming it has a fan on the top/bottom, as opposed to the back by the switch) with the fan down so it suck cool air in through the filtered vent and blows it out the case to the rear.
Since it doesn't have a side panel fan option, you could mount that bottom fan; but with just one intake fan (front) and that huge exhaust on the top and the one in the rear, natural airflow will allow cool air to enter that bottom vent even without another fan.


Umm... so you want me to get a bottom fan? but you said I need to mount the PSU on the bottom...


There's enough room on the bottom for a psu, an SSD bay, AND a fan, you will be fine :)  (he means in front of the psu, not where the psu IS)
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August 31, 2013 8:18:22 AM

Could you maybe make a diagram for this? I'm utterly confused because this is my first build. Just take a picture of the case and put arrows around the air flow in paint.
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August 31, 2013 12:57:31 PM

Sorry, I don;t know how to do that in Paint, and am not much better at getting photos on here.
Please go to this link, click on the picture of the case, and select the picture (out of the group that show up) that has the view into the case from the side.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
The two fans on the left are your front fans; they will be pushing cool air into the case, over your hard drives; that cool air (the HDD's won't heat it up much) will then be pulled over your video, cpu, memory as it is sucked out the top by that big 200mm fan and the rear 140mm.

Your psu mounts on the far left bottom (in the pict.), sucks air in through the filtered vent below it and blows that air out the back; it is pretty much a self-contained system for cooling itself.
IF YOU DECIDE to mount a bottom fan, it would be mounted on the intake vent to the right of the one mentioned above, right next to the hard drive mounts. It would blow cool air into the case. But convection and physics should make that unnecessary. The amount of intake air will be slightly less then exhaust and the heated air will rise to the exhaust fans. This will naturally pull some cool air through that vent.
Looking at the back of the case, the slots for add in cards are vented, so unless you add-in 9 or 10 various cards, there will be circulation through those also.
O.K. did the help? Sorry about no picture.
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September 1, 2013 9:33:21 AM

nostall said:
Sorry, I don;t know how to do that in Paint, and am not much better at getting photos on here.
Please go to this link, click on the picture of the case, and select the picture (out of the group that show up) that has the view into the case from the side.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
The two fans on the left are your front fans; they will be pushing cool air into the case, over your hard drives; that cool air (the HDD's won't heat it up much) will then be pulled over your video, cpu, memory as it is sucked out the top by that big 200mm fan and the rear 140mm.

Your psu mounts on the far left bottom (in the pict.), sucks air in through the filtered vent below it and blows that air out the back; it is pretty much a self-contained system for cooling itself.
IF YOU DECIDE to mount a bottom fan, it would be mounted on the intake vent to the right of the one mentioned above, right next to the hard drive mounts. It would blow cool air into the case. But convection and physics should make that unnecessary. The amount of intake air will be slightly less then exhaust and the heated air will rise to the exhaust fans. This will naturally pull some cool air through that vent.
Looking at the back of the case, the slots for add in cards are vented, so unless you add-in 9 or 10 various cards, there will be circulation through those also.
O.K. did the help? Sorry about no picture.


Umm can you do print screen and do notes and arrows in it? Here's for example:
http://imageshack.us/content_round.php?page=done&l=img8...

not sure if i got this right
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