Nemo Posted July 10, 2008 Posted July 10, 2008 You can find the review here - http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/tagan_a_csmonolize/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 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.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepper Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kendellrt Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 I think it's ugly. I'm pretty particular about cases in that way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingdingeling Posted July 11, 2008 Posted July 11, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamikaze_Badger Posted July 13, 2008 Posted July 13, 2008 Why does the reviewer call it the "Monolith" instead of "Monolize"? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InCrYsIs Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 (edited) 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. Edited August 4, 2008 by InCrYsIs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Why does the reviewer call it the "Monolith" instead of "Monolize"? Different language different name. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InCrYsIs Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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