Antec Twelve Hundred VS Coolr Mastr HAF932 RC

right, ive been looking at these two cases and they both seem very good, cant make up my mind though, the coolermaster has much larger fans but it seems that its board thingy covers up the bottom of the power supply. any ideas on which one is better?


Antec 1200

Cooler Master HAF 932

Last August I went to a Fry's Electronics store to purchase the Antec 1200. It also happened to be the first day the CoolerMaster HAF 932 went on sale. I took one look at the display model and decided to buy it instead.

The HAF 932 is a huge case and it's much wider than the typical case. Plenty of room to work inside the case. Ventilation, airlfow, and cooling with the stock case fans are outstanding. You can install a psu in the bottom of the case or in the top of the case. I installed mine in the bottom.

I'm not sure what you mean by "board thingy" If you are referring to a bottom mounted psu, then you probably mean the ventilated psu frame at the bottom of the case. It can be extended or retracted to accomodate a psu of any length.

bullheaded67 - Exactly. That's how I have my psu oriented. The idea is that the psu cools itself since there are sufficent fans for the rest of the case.

HAF is the best cooling case on the market today but that side piece is so ugly.

you can also put 4 120 mm fans on the side, 3 on the top and 1 in the back, which is what im doing, and if you mount your psu to the top, you can put 2 more 120mm

I agree with Johnnylucky - at least try the stock fans first before going with the smaller fans. You will be generating a lot more noise with smaller fans. I would probably go water cooled before moving to smaller fans.

xtc28 - The technical reviews of the Skeleton were not very favorable:

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/637/1

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/847/1/

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/o [...] leton.html

http://www.overclockersonline.net/ [...] 401&pnum=0

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/c [...] skeleton/1