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Thanks for all the input. I’m not quite ready to hit the purchase button yet, but it’s been a fun few days reading up review sites and comparing opinions. I want this to be a fairly low-stress purchase so I’m sticking with one supplier that I’ve used before, I’m not going to buy stuff from 6 different sites just to save $10. The retailer I’m using doesn’t have the Fractal Design R4, but it does have the R5 and the meshify range. I’ve decided to go with the lower-cost meshify case, as this isn’t a premium machine and I’m trying to stick to a budget. Also it looks interesting. It’s funny that the case is the cheapest part of the build but I’ve spent 10x longer looking at options compared to everything else.Next lot of fun is to choose a graphics card… because this will initially be an After Effects only machine, I’m not concerned with the GPU right now. And because the next generation of nVidia cards are imminently due, I’m thinking about getting the cheapest possible 1060 (3GB) until the new range is launched sometime later this year, and then see what the options are after dust has settled.
Cheers!
I like the cooling arrangement on the Antec 300 series cases. These are large cheap sturdy cases with lots of drive bays. There are exhaust fan openings on the top and the upper rear of the back panel, and of course whatever power supply you add will exhaust its cooling air out the back as well. There's a side panel opening for a fan that will direct outside air at the processor and graphics card area, and you can add two fans at the front to push outside air through the drive bays. I stack my drives with open air in between them for better cooling. All pretty standard nowadays, but they arrange it well. Each side opens with a latch, or you can screw it shut when you are done fiddling. Both sides of the drive mount screws are accessible, not hidden below the mother board. Antec sells fans that mount on rubber bushings and are held in place by rubber bands. They have a hi/low switch on the power cable, and with my setup I can run the 5 fans on the nearly inaudible low setting for high volume/low velocity cooling. Beats our previous Dell which had one fan for everything and tried to keep the processor cool with creative ducting. That fan was screaming when we ran Photoshop.
--Patrick Blackard +1 on this case. My newest machine, main workstation is an FD R2 XL - very happy with it so far. Super quiet even when loaded when fans, drives etc.
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Puget Systems, who REALLY know what they are doing, built an excellent workstation for me, using Fractal Design R2 XL.
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