So, over the weekend, my hard drive on booting, and windows after booting said my hard drive is sick and will fail imminently. apparently my urgency to update my machine just got more urgent.
I stalled at picking a case last time. I want something that looks a bit classy, will take a blue ray drive, isn't humungous and has a good air filtering system that is easy to remove and clean without tearing the whole unit apart.
I know I don't want much huh ;-)
I currently have a coolermaster from 2009 that I quite like but the grills aren't particularly fine and removing them requires bending back steel tabs everywhere, a fair pain in the arse.
I was looking at the following, but I'm going to have to revisit:
Enermax Ostrog GT
Fractal Design Define RS Black
Zalman Z9 Neo
Coolermaster Pro 5
I'm stepping the CPU down from the 8700K to the 8700. for all intents and purposes it looks to have nearly the same performance and is $100 cheaper. I'm going to go through the other components and rationalise them as well. maybe save a few hundred dollars more to put towards a decent NAS Box.
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