WYP
News Guru
Raidmax has announced their new SIGMA mid-tower chassis, with no optical bays and support for up to 360mm radiators.
Read more on Raidmax's Sigma PC chassis.
Read more on Raidmax's Sigma PC chassis.
Raidmax announces their SIGMA mid-tower chassis
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ImprovizoR
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I love how all these new cases are like "screw storage space. You need radiator space everywhere". And then they put that ridiculous PSU shroud to keep your mechanical drives tucked away inside where it's nice and WARM.
Meanwhile Fractal Design is like "Why can't we have both?" And then they let you have both. Without the stupid PSU shroud.
Meanwhile Fractal Design is like "Why can't we have both?" And then they let you have both. Without the stupid PSU shroud.
Dawelio
Active member
Cause the PSU shroud makes cable management a little easier, plus it makes the overall build look very neat in my opinion.
I wish that they did an optional PSU shroud for the Define S, which is the case that I have.
Kilbane
Hagrid Look-A-Like
Having Mech drives under the cover with the PSU will not effect them. Short of using seriously fast spinning mech drives (think Raptors, which will produce half the heat in there anyway)), temps make no difference to the actual performance of those drives (Short of sticking them in a furnace obviously).
ImprovizoR
Well-known member
People underestimate the importance of keeping your mechanical drives cool. Optimal temps for HDD's shouldn't be more than 30. I keep mine at 27-30. Only in the summer they might get a few degrees hotter. And I've never had an HDD fail on me, not even once.
Sure, and RGB makes it all shiny and stuff. All this crap is just about making more money without actually innovating and perfecting the design. It's pointless at best and often times it's a negative.
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Dawelio
Active member
That is your point of view and your own personal taste regarding it. It doesn't mean everyone thinks the same as you do. Like me for instance, I don't really care about "innovation" at all, if I seem something I like, I like it. Same goes for RGB, may be unnecessary, but it's a nice feature in my eyes.
So I personally don't see it being pointless at all and even more so negative, so not sure where you're coming from with that.
Doomslayer
New member
Oh god this case it soooo ugly.
Why do people like these design i think there just plain awful.
Why do people like these design i think there just plain awful.
Dawelio
Active member
Just the same way as some prefer a Lamborghini over a Ferrari.
AlienALX
Well-known member
Raidmax = Skoda. Not the new VW Skoda but the old one. In fact they're teetering on the precipice of being Lada.
They spent most of the early noughties ripping off Alienware for a living lol. Only thing was they were obviously terrified of being slapped with a lawsuit so they made them as revolting as they possibly could so nothing was left of the original they stole from haha.
looz
Active member
I mean it does matter but not that much.
See page 6 here: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf
Also: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-temperature-does-it-matter/
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