montyw47 Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 I want to assemble a new system with a case that has LOTS EXTERNAL BAYS(5 or more) for up front sound inputs from Creative Labs sound card, USB&1394 ports, CD/RW DVD burner combo. Also want to put in removable drive and fan controllers & HDD cooler up front. All case I have seen so far have max 4 external 5.25 bays. Who makes cases with more ext bays??? Can spend up to $125 for case, I can spend extra on a top grade power supply Have NEW 80Gb ATA/133 8MB cache(WD) & 60GB Maxtor IDE drives. Also have SCSI hard drives(2). Looking to build system around Abit IC7-G maxII board. I got it for $162 sealed box NEW. Don't know which P4 chip to buy & o/c (2.4C;2.6C;2.6C are affordable). What type memory to put in PC4000 overkill? 2 - 512MB DDR sticks or more???? Multibooting Win XP Pro; Linux - Suse;Mandrake & Redhat What's best all around video board under $300? BTW I built Abit bh-6 based system with Celeron300A o/c to 450MHZ in 1999 . That's going to be my new firewall box. Comments, thoughts, rants,etc. welcomed. Regards MontyW47 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigred Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 first off, only maxtor makes an ata 133 drive. WD stayed with ata 100 (not that it'll make much diff). second of all, 6 5 1/4 drive bays? hmm, not going to find many for $125. Only ones I know of are the big cube cases by supermicro that can cost over $800 without power suply for the nicer ones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sykocus Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 i was looking for something simlar too found a lian li, that is a little over budget, http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/cst-95.html and this http://shop.store.yahoo.com/jinco/9bayatxfilse.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raife Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 Remember, some of the things you list won't necessarily take up a 5.25 bay. Many cases now come with a seperate section with front USB, 1394, and sound ports. In addition, card readers can often be put in 3.5 bays. I have a kingwin case with CD-RW, CR-ROM, card reader, fan controller, floppy and still have 1 3.5 left and 1 5.25 left. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobalt Posted September 23, 2003 Posted September 23, 2003 This one looks cool http://www.miacom.com/Store/enlarge.asp?ID=157&Name=8011.jpg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaluMinati Posted September 24, 2003 Posted September 24, 2003 (edited) found on with 6 external 5.25" bays, 2 external 3.5" bays and one internal 3.5" bay, all for the low low price of 88.98 USD http://shop.store.yahoo.com/a-c/triumfultowa.html just for fun... i checked, with shipping and 10 thumbscrews ( thew wherew an additional 1.99 for 10 ) you can get that case for 116.92.. thats a hellova deal, so long as you dont mind modding the hell out of it Edited September 24, 2003 by KaluMinati Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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