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Tagan Monolith Case Examined |
 Jul 10 2008, 03:01 AM
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 Will Fold 4 Food  Posts: 6,106 Joined: 10-May 04 From: Franklin, TN Member No.: 10,039  |
You can find the review here - http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/tagan_a_csmonolize/
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Jul 10 2008, 06:27 PM
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 It's a buncha, muncha, cruncha... human!  Posts: 6,464 Joined: 4-December 05 From: Perkinsville,VT Member No.: 18,065 |
It seems like a really nice case, if I had the room I'd get me one of them thar...
Those side fans really seem ideal for GPU usage. It would be awesome if you had a single or double GPU setup that had a huge heatsink with tightly packed fins and were able to use the airflow from even one of those fans.. --------------------  CASE: Antec P182 CPU: Xeon X3220MEMORY: 4GB DDR2 GPU: XFX 8800GTS (Alpha Dog Edition) + Gigabyte 8800GT for physx MOBO: Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 PSU: Antec EA500 LCD: 20" Acer Widescreen OS: Windows XP - Use the following link to access the Official Overclockersclub Chat Room: OCC CHAT (be sure to set you browsers irc handler to your standalone IRC client) |
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Jul 10 2008, 08:23 PM
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 10-July 08 Member No.: 63,338 |
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 |
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Jul 11 2008, 03:11 AM
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 My Mac can beat up your PC! Posts: 3,924 Joined: 6-April 04 From: Provo, UT Member No.: 9,458 |
I think it's ugly. I'm pretty particular about cases in that way.
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Jul 11 2008, 03:36 AM
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 King of the Autobahn  Posts: 9,851 Joined: 4-November 05 From: Hannover, Germany Member No.: 17,834 |
Zepper, I was thinking the same thing when I saw the case. It reminded me of that Xclio case, but I had forgotten the name.
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Jul 13 2008, 11:03 AM
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Combat Medic Infantry Posts: 8,112 Joined: 27-June 04 From: E Co 232 Med BN Member No.: 10,892 |
Why does the reviewer call it the "Monolith" instead of "Monolize"?
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Aug 4 2008, 11:22 AM
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 Geek Posts: 907 Joined: 8-April 08 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 31,849 |
I just changed over to this case this weekend. I must say it helped cooling considerably. I dropped about 3C on the CPU idle and about 7C on my 2 4850s. Lots of room. Thermalright went in without an issue.
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Aug 4 2008, 08:48 PM
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 The more i teach the dumber i get! Posts: 7,402 Joined: 10-August 03 Member No.: 5,490 |
QUOTE (Kamikaze_Badger @ Jul 13 2008, 02:03 PM)  Why does the reviewer call it the "Monolith" instead of "Monolize"? Different language different name. -------------------- Processor Intel Core I7 920 x2, I7 965 and more
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Aug 4 2008, 08:50 PM
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The more i teach the dumber i get! Posts: 7,402 Joined: 10-August 03 Member No.: 5,490 |
QUOTE (InCrYsIs @ Aug 4 2008, 02:22 PM) I just changed over to this case this weekend. I must say it helped cooling considerably. I dropped about 3C on the CPU idle and about 7C on my 2 4850s. Lots of room. Thermalright went in without an issue. You forgot the other benefit of this case. Its so quiet you can hear yourself think. -------------------- Processor Intel Core I7 920 x2, I7 965 and more
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Aug 5 2008, 07:40 AM
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Geek Posts: 907 Joined: 8-April 08 From: Las Vegas, NV Member No.: 31,849 |
QUOTE (ccokeman @ Aug 4 2008, 08:50 PM) You forgot the other benefit of this case. Its so quiet you can hear yourself think. It is pretty quiet. I have some high speed Sythe fans in there at full blast. They are pretty audible. The 2 250mm fans really help my VGA cards. -------------------- Main Rig: Gigabyte X48T-DQ6, Q6600@3.0GHZ, 4GB Corsair DDR3-1600 XMS,Crossfire 2x XFX Radeon 4870 1GB, 150 GB Raptor, (2)500 GB Hard Drives, 32" Toshiba LCD TV, Windows 7 Pro 64bit, X-FI Fatality Soundcard, Thermalright Ultra Black Edition w/Scythe 120mm fan, Coolermaster HAF 932 w/ TT 800 Watt PSU HTPC:GIGABYTE GA-73PVM-S2H, 2.4 GHZ Core2Duo, 4GB Corsair DDR2-800 XMS, Sapphire HD 4650 512MB, Apevia Q-Pack w/400 watt PSU, WD 500 GB HD, LG Blu-ray/HD Combo drive, Windows 7 Pro 64 bit, 42" LG LCD TV |
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