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How do I know if I should buy a full or medium chassis (PC case)?
I plan on building my first pc for gaming but i'm not sure whether to buy a full or medium size tower? I don't plan on buying another chassis for a long time that's why I plan on buying a corair because you can't go wrong with they're quality although they're not all lit up with lights and add that extra effect I don't care because I hate plastic especially when i'm paying that much for it.
>Well, I am old school. And old school says, "bigger is better." So I happen to like the full tower because it is big. There are a number of practical reasons why I choose a full tower, so you might consider my reasonings after having built hundreds of computers:
*First, I like "big" simply because it is easy to work inside of. You can get the wires out of the way and stuff the extra ones above the ROM drive to get them out of the way. You can easily get your motherboard positioned inside of one of these. Hard drives are easier to mount and dismount inside them. Things get cramped fast with all the power wires and data ribbons/connectors. Then there are the "extras" in those deluxe motherboard kits...like extra back panel USB ports, firewire ports that each have additional wires. If you have just a mid-tower it becomes nearly impossible to stick your hands in there and work with things without your hands getting in the way of or running up against another device or bunch of wires. The 20+4 pin Mains connector is a humongo wad of wires tied together. Then, there is the issue of the huge cooling fan/heatsink so common these days...it sits there like a grain silo on a farm right smack dab in the middle of your motherboard near the upper part of the chassis where your power supply sits. Then, trying to get a large video card in there is a real trick amongst all those wires, cooling tower, hard disks, etc. I use plastic electrical ties to group wires together in a logical manner to get them out of the way so my work doesn't look like a cobbled mess in there of dangling wires and stray wires. I try to make my computer build as clean looking and OPEN as possible. I try to get all wires away from parts that generate a lot of HEAT. If I can do that...I can get better cooling across those parts you see. Large towers require more fans, but so what? I am running an 850 Watt psu, so who cares if a few extra watts go to a few extra case fans? I always max out the number of case fans I can have so that I get maximum cooling. If you have a mid-tower, things get cramped and they get in the way of airflow...which leads to my second point...
*Airflow - You can never have enough airflow grom front to back case. The more heat you suck out, the cooler your parts run and this is really important in gaming where parts get red hot! So being able to clear away wires and data connectors is really important. I think, besides the look and feel of a tower, cooling capability is probably the next most important thing to having enough space/room to work in. Buy a case with lots of fans!
Those are the main reasons why.
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