There are also massive air intakes at the bottom and top to provide your PC gear the best thermal dissipation. The Draco 10 has excellent fan and radiator support, pushing the cooling performance to the next level. Dust filters at the front, top, and bottom. They are easy to be removed and cleaned. It debuted late last month, earning the title of Corsair's most inexpensive enclosure ever. As we noted at the time, the R looks surprisingly upscale for the price.
Especially on the inside, it doesn't seem all that different from Corsair's higher-priced offerings, like the Obsidian Series D. Naturally, Corsair has had to cut a few corners to reach the lower price point. We'll soon see which corners were cut and which weren't.
The Three Hundred Two came out a few months before the R. As its name suggests, this is a successor to Antec's hugely popular Three Hundred case, which has literally thousands of reviews on Newegg.
That's an extensive list of improvements, and it makes the Three Hundred Two a fairly formidable competitor to the R. The Antec case is taller and wider, with more space behind the motherboard tray to tuck away cables. Why you'd want to stick a tiny motherboard in a full-sized ATX case is another matter—but hey, if you're into that sort of thing, I'm not one to judge.
Meanwhile, the R is lighter and a little deeper, and it allows room for more fans, more solid-state drives, and longer graphics cards.
The cooling arrangement is different, too. Both of the Three Hundred Two's bundled fans are exhausts by default with one at the rear and one at the top but the R has an intake fan at the front and an exhaust fan at the back. Antec's strategy may result in lower processor temperatures, but the Corsair design could minimize dust and cool other components, like the graphics card, a little better.
We'll look at temperatures and noise levels in excruciating detail very soon. By the way, sticking a Mini-ITX motherboard in the R isn't technically impossible, even if Corsair doesn't advertise the fact.
However, the R has a stabilizing nub instead of a standoff under one of the main mounting holes. To test both of these cases, we've gathered some fresh components. We've also got a Radeon HD , a GB solid-state drive, a Blu-ray drive, a modular power supply, and even a sound card. All told, these parts draw about W under a simultaneous CPU and graphics load. One might consider this collection of test hardware overkill for budget enclosures like the R and Three Hundred Two, but we think it's helpful to stress these cases properly.
If they're any good, they needn't be restricted to budget builds. We'd also expect these cases to have plenty of room for future upgrades—and the ability to cool those parts appropriately. You wouldn't want to grab a new graphics card only to have it overheat in Far Cry 3 , now, would you? Okay, that's enough for introductions.
Let's get into the meat of this review by taking a closer look at the R and Three Hundred Two. There will be pictures—plenty of them. Then, we'll fill up the cases with our Case Warmer guts, document the process, and run some stress tests.
Here we go. You must login or create an account to comment. Skip to main content This story was brought to you by our friends at The Tech Report. You can visit the original story here. The author, Cyril Kowaliski, recently released an e-book which you can find here. Chronological Insightful Highest Voted Funniest. They communicate as effectively as the article itself, and that's saying something. Not bad for 70 dollar case. Me being in the uk, the price would work out to be even cheaper I could get one but now I don't need one.
Would never in this day and age consider such a large case for myself. I've got a PC project sitting next to me right now in that Antec case, worked fine for my purposes. I know, I know, there's this myth that all Ars staff members only have Macs, sorry to poke holes in it.
Personally I'd prefer a layout where: 1. Hard drive bays are positioned behind an intake fan to keep them cool even with many drives in enclosure under load. PSU sitting on top back of the case so that its fans provide extra force to standard air flow bottom front cold, back top hot exhaust for all rising hot air including flow from CPU out of the case.
Not terribly wide as most modern expansion cards aren't wide. Willing to sacrifice accessibility of hard drive enclosure for this i. Solid, easily cleanable dust filters on all intakes, even those without fans. Some sort of a visual sensor to show the current temperature inside the case, with possible external case fan controls for when I want to make it quiet fast. Non-exposed USB and audio connectors in the front, so they aren't visible when not used.
Considering that there are several much cheaper PC cases that do all of the above, these two sound like a bad deal all around to me. I've used nexus clodius in my last build, and the only problem I've had with it was having to use a vacuum cleaner on some of the dust filters.
It's cheaper and all around better case then any of the two mentioned here. And it's just one such choice out of several. I purchased the Antec model for the 6 hard drive bays for my media server. With all of those drives, a lot of heat was being generated when multiple videos and music were being accessed at the same time. We ensure you can find the dream mini-tower PC case that meets your needs. The Antec Striker open-air is the first of its kind, designed for custom water-cooling gamers.
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