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Reaper450128 · Rated PG

I don't know how many people are still checking this thread but since I have the silver version of this case I thought I would add a few things to the mix. No one has mentioned anything about the fact that the silver version is aluminum and not steel, that's why there is a price difference. It also only weighs 7.5kg (16.5lbs), and the weight is the reason I went with it over the black one, as much as I like black cases.

squee, I think this is what you are looking for, but good luck finding it. I was looking for an extra cage so I could add another fan and a RAID5 array, and found this on their site in my search. I did a quick search on froogle looking for them for sale, and can't find it, but an email to ThermalTake might help that.

Personally I am very pleased with this case, it looks good, it's pretty light (as long as you shell out for the silver one) and the airflow inside really is excellent. I almost think I could get away with returning to air cooling, but I like the overclocking capacity the water gives me. My only problem with the case so far is the card holder tabs like squee mentioned, I keep popping my backplane USB bracket into the case when I plug things into it, same with anything else that doesn't plug into the board. I haven't traveled with it yet to see how anything else holds together, but I'm moving in a couple weeks so I'll find out then. It was either this or the Kandalf, and as far as I can tell the Kandalf is just an Armor with removable extensions on the front flaps.
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