Can of air and your done, what your washing/wiping everything down? nobody in the right mind would do a total cleaning of a case for dust every month unless you have OCD. I have an HAF 932 case which is a dust magnet and a plain Corsair 750w TX PSU with all the large amount cables. The PSU has not been removed since the original install back in early 2009 and I clean out my pc every 2-3 months can of air and your done once you have all the cables tucked away and routed you should never have to remove cables or psu in its life time that it works just fine. You dont have to go through that whole process for dusting. Your just blowing it way out of proportion.
04dcarraher
And I'll bet the inside of your case looks like crap. That's nice for you, but not all of us like having the snakeskin spaghetti look. You'll also never get all the dust out of a power supply if you don't remove it. They can last much longer if you do a more thorough job of cleaning them.
[QUOTE="04dcarraher"] There's no point in it to be fully modular the cables are attached because those tend to be need the most. Spend two hours doing a very nice cable routing job. Take out the power supply one month later for cleaning. Spend another two hours redoing the nice cable routing job. Repeat every month for years. OR: Spend two hours doing a very nice cable routing job. Disconnect all the cables at the PSU and remove it for cleaning. Re-install the PSU with cable routing job intact. I know the only units I'll be buying (for my own rig) from now on will be fully modular. Being able to remove your power supply without having to re-route cables is a godsend, especially for case designs that have the PSU mounted on the bottom of the case.
I read that the stuttering problems was due to the game's usage of RAM. Some reported the stuttering going away after they put in 2-4GB more RAM (from 4GB). I'm using 4GB right now and I noticed stuttering occasionally. Could be caused by anything, really. Every other patch, I seem to get all sorts of issues. So it could be EA/DICE's end.
Elann2008
DICE hasn't made a truly great FPS game since Battlefield 2, and even that took over a year to really get right. Hell, BF2142 still has problems, and BC2 is still a buggy, poorly-coded mess. BF3 can be fun sure, but it's nowhere near the level it needs to be at for truly competitive play. I'm not sure why anyone expects anything great out of them anymore. They ignored the PC community for years, with the releases they did put out being either canceled (1943), F2P flash nonsense, or quite clearly console ports with no thought for the PC interface, and people still think they're going to be the saviors of PC gaming, just because they put out a couple of good titles half a decade (or more) ago.
Looks like a solid build, but you probably went a bit overboard on the power supply. You could probably shop in the 650w range and still be just fine. I'd definitely opt for the Seasonic X650 over that HX750. The fully modular design of the Seasonic is great for keeping cable management when you pull your power supply out for a good cleaning, you can just d/c all the cables at the unit, take it outside, and really get it nice and clean without having to re-adjust all your cables when you pop it back in.
[QUOTE="kraken2109"] No, but that doesn't make it a bad case. I can honestly say I haven't enjoyed any of my time with it, and I've worked with a fair number of cases. My ideas of what makes a good case are different than some of course. If you like the aesthetics that can go a long way towards making the decision if a case is good or bad.
If there's also a difference in size I'd almost certainly opt for the smaller laptop. The point of them in portability, lugging around a 17" monstrosity I would consider as being only technically portable.
If you're on a tight budget, ditch the Blu-Ray drive. For the mainboard I'd probably consider one of ASRock's Gen3 series boards, and for the graphics card I'd probably look into something around the GTX 560 Ti/HD 7850 range.
I find the drive cages fine, I have 3 HDDs in there, one of which is 2.5", I used a £5 adapter bracket. My card is 10.5" and there's room for longer. My PSU has plenty of room despite a sound card and a large graphics card. I've had it for 3 years and build quality seems fine, the power button feels fine. I don't get a 'pop' sound.
I'm not saying it's perfect, and maybe it's not great value compared with modern cases, but it's not a 'bad' case.
kraken2109
So I suppose the real question should be this: Would you honestly recommend the Antec Nine Hundred for $100 to someone building a system right now? Do you really think it's a good value at that price in today's market?
Around $120 for an AMD HD 7750 should do you proud. I doubt it'll be too much for that power supply and space-wise it shouldn't be a problem either since it's shorter than an ATX/MATX motherboard.
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