I'm leaning toward the Corsair CC800DW Obsidian 800D Full Tower Case. Plenty of room, comes with a water cooled CPU setup. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome at real-time.com> wrote: > So I'm finally breaking down and going to get myself a new desktop machine, > because Youtube is unusable on a 1.1GHz K7, and Gmail is pretty doggy > sometimes when editing. > > Thing is, I don't have a clue what's good hardware on the market these days. > I figured I'd start with a case and go from there; but perhaps I'm being > backward and should start with a CPU and narrow down my choices that > way. > > I'd really like a nice big case with lots of room to work in; ideally very quiet. > I've been using a Yeong Yang YY-022 for the past 10 years or so; it's a > scaled-down version of a double-wide server case. Looks like a black > cube-ish thing about 13"x13"x16". It's a bit of a pain to route cables tho; > so I'd be happy enough to go back to a conventional layout. > > Anyone have any good experiences with cases they want to relate? > > Any good advice on which CPU is at the sweet price point these days? > > In case you didn't know, I'm not physically in the Twin Cities area (I'm in > New Hampshire) so telling me to go down to Tran Micro is not useful. :) > > -- > Carl Soderstrom > Systems Administrator > Real-Time Enterprises > www.real-time.com > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >