Hello review author,
re. the long email I sent earlier, the bit about the bushings - forget about it. My old eyes were playing tricks on me (seeing what I hoped to see, not what was actually there) - now I see no bushings in the HDD rails. Too bad, those would have been a nice bonus - perhaps owners could order some better rails with bushings from the Rosewill or Yeong Yang offices.
.bh.
Here is a copy of the eMail JIC it got lost in the Inergalactic Bit Bucket...
Hello Frank,
God, I really hate Konqueror! This is the third time I'll be writing
this as I tried to write it in gmail's online eMail composer and another
time in Fastmail's online mail composer and it blew up both times. Now
I'm writing this using Kate so I can cut&paste it into one of the
composers and send it before K knows what hit it... Now that I've got
that rant out of my system...
. I enjoyed your review of the Tagan/A Plus Monolith case which I've
been suggesting for about a year (my first message I could find on the
Anandtech forums w/ a quick search was Feb. 2007) for extreme systems
(gaming or otherwise) and for those who just want a roomy, solid (that
1.0 SECC should make it tanklike). It first appeared here in the States
under the XClio brand with Windtunnel as the model name. Here are the
links to the two versions:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811103011
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16811103019
- the second one (called the "Advanced") includes a 120mm rear fan and a
200 mm top fan, which you now know would probably be totally
superfluous. They are now named WT (WTBK for black versions) as
Windtunnel was previously used as the name of a feature and model name
of other cases based on the same design as the Silverstone Temjin 6.
Both the XClio and Tagan seem to be OEMed by A Plus Case as their logo
is on the front of both.
. Like I said, I've been following and recommending this case for a
good while, but I hadn't known that the plastic HDD rails have rubber
bushings around their pins until it was revealed in the enlarged pic of
the rails (but NOT by your text). I suppose they should as the HDD rails in
the Rosewill R5600 series unit (aka the YeongYang YY-5600 series elsewhere) I had
(basically the same chassis design as the WT/Monolith) were mostly metal
rails and had the bushings. Others made on the same chassis came with
plastic rails and I couldn't see the bushings, so I guess the OEM buyer
can select the quality of rail they want to afford. The Thermaltake
SViking was also on the same chassis (shorter of course). I've reviewed
the R5600 series here:
http://www.techimo.com/reviews/showproduct.php?product=431 - you might
find it interesting.
. Anyway, sorry to be so long-winded, but I really like the basic
chassis design (I usually don't keep a case as long as I did the 5604)
as well as what A Plus did off the basic design. Feel free to add any of the above
info to your review (wouldn't mind attribution, though) if you like. I'm
currently reviewing for Mad Shrimps, so you can use my common forum
name, zepper, for attribution.
Keep up the good work.
.bh.
known as zepper or zepper0 around the techie forums