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The Lian Li B10 which has a front lock has dropped to around $100/70 here in Sweden. It's a great case at that price point.
Otherwise you have options like Antec Sonata and older Antecs like P182/P190/P193 etc if you can find them.
This seems like a good deal...
That's an oddly specific niche of a case to be honest. I would be surprised if you found something more fitting than the Zalman T2 or Silverstone FT03. If you want small, go mini-ITX ;)
Zalman T2 is really cheap though and if you cover the top and use a topdown cpu cooler that brings fresh...
It's been time since Q6600 showed up. Only now are AMD starting to hit back with APUs. It will get quite interesting when DDR4 hits, which will certainly benefit AMD more than Intel.
To answer the topic, I'm more interested in small internal PSUs and cases to fit them. I don't see the point in having a power brick the size of the case essentially.
A 170x210x40mm case to fit a 170x40x40mm PSU would be of definite interest to me. 120W at 90% efficiency would only output 12W...
I have mine customized but I still have to move my mouse around the entire screen to open different programs. With the Start Menu it's much more reachable and I really gain nothing from Metro, just bigger icons. It's just less efficient.
I got the SATA splitter to put an HD4870 in an old C2D Dell, PSU was 305W if I remember correctly so it's not a given that the PSU is too weak. 300W is more than enough for a 65W CPU and 150W GPU.
Sadly that's not an option. By the time I have money for that, GTX 685 (or whatever they're calling it) will be out!
I'm satisfied with the performance I'm getting out of my single HD6870 for "2D gaming", will HD3D require more than twice the GPU power?
I was planning on a 46-50 inch 3D Panasonic plasma to use for gaming and movies.
It seems AMD added support for Crossfire with Catalyst 12.1, though I don't know how well it works.
What would be best for 3D; 2x6870 or one GTX 580?
I'm sitting on a single HD6870 now and I'm feeling the urge to experience 3D gaming and what not. I reckon I would need a second card to get decent framerates but the information I found is conflicting.
Does Crossfire fully support HD3D?
Do you think 2xHD6870 (2500K at 4.4) would run most...