Show Us Your Rig [5]

It would be a good scheduled maintenance thing to do. I think Paul has 6-7 identical cases, and does a swap for every pic, that is why they always look perfect

Dude said:

It would be a good scheduled maintenance thing to do. I think Paul has 6-7 identical cases, and does a swap for every pic, that is why they always look perfect

Cases of what?

essenbe said:

Dude said:

It would be a good scheduled maintenance thing to do. I think Paul has 6-7 identical cases, and does a swap for every pic, that is why they always look perfect

Cases of what?

Dust free frames for the pics

Dude said:

essenbe said:

Dude said:

It would be a good scheduled maintenance thing to do. I think Paul has 6-7 identical cases, and does a swap for every pic, that is why they always look perfect

Cases of what?

Dust free frames for the pics

And Cases of beer to drink while I do it

That Paul is a win win situation

Drinking beer is a bad habit, Paul. I know, it's one of the few things I'm qualified to be expert at.

ok guys,after HOURS of hard work,i have decided on the Xigmatek Utgard.
Now i should mention first that Hafx is an epic case,its great on its own but when compared with utgard,its nothing special.
Utgard comes with a lot of options just like Hafx but the little things like the fans and the 2 fan controllers and the complete toll-less design along with the removable dust filter at the bottom make it the winner. Although Hafx has better cable management options as it has many of those small hooks (?-probably not what they are called) to which you tie the cables and they are in different places unlike utgards which are sort of in a straight line. BUT utgard has about 1.5 inches of space behind the board which comes really handy.
Another thing i noticed was that Hafx cable management holes are in more...well,needed places. Not randomly placed and it really hides the cables. But then again,the feel utgard gives off is awesome
Looks great and is quite heavy with everything installed as compared with hafx,my back hurts lol.
And before you say anything,i know the cable management is horrible. The 24 pin and 4 pin connectors fell short,this case is huge. Thinking of ordering some custom wires which will cost me 40$ extra


Stripped them down to bare cages for comparison. Right is Utgard and left Haf x.



I do not know if its the camera or what but the case looks 10 times better in real life,maybe i just suck at taking pictures -_-
Got a lot of dust here & there while trying to install the things,otherwise it looks great.

shinigami8671, enjoy the new case. You said it gets dusty there, it is the same here in Texas. Give it a good cleaning and you will be happy with it.

Nice shiningami but I still love the HAF XM over anything. The dust mate well it's a way of life out here thats why I am the tinkerer - filtering mad