It's laying on a shelf above my head in my basement :) I think the only time it's ever had a monitor hooked up to it was for installing the OS, haha. After that it has been remote desktop or SSH to get into the various VM's.
I have the stock cooler on the CPU, so no problem fitting the top on. I also put all the optional fans in the case since I had them laying around. I've never had a problem with anything in it probably because of the airflow. You could probably get away with a smaller heatsink because of this too. The only time it gets shut down is the once a year vacuum, haha. ---- Julian On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > Yep. Totally missed it..should have read the reviews. > > Did you paint outside or mount it in something? The color of it would > grate my nerves. Also, only 7-inches high, not sure if the hulking cooler on > my Q9550 will fit inside. Current case is 7.5 inches wide. Could easily get > 1 blu-ray and 12 HDs in this baby... > > > On 7/28/2011 9:13 AM, Julian Zottl wrote: > >> I'm guessing you're looking at NewEgg's site, which is wrong :) Take a >> look >> here: >> http://www.norcotek.com/item_**detail.php?categoryid=1&**modelno=RPC-450<http://www.norcotek.com/item_detail.php?categoryid=1&modelno=RPC-450> >> >> ---- >> Julian >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:59 AM, Anthony Q. Martin<[email protected]>** >> wrote: >> >> I must be missing something...it only has 3 drive bays... >>> >>> >>> On 7/27/2011 12:14 PM, Joshua MacCraw wrote: >>> >>> Nice! I like that case and it's a great price for that many bays. >>>> On Jul 27, 2011 8:52 AM, "Julian Zottl"<jzottl@radiantnetworks.****net< >>>> jzottl@radiantnetworks.**net <[email protected]>>> >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Here's my order from 12/08: >>>>> P5QL P43 775 ATX Motherboard $99.99 >>>>> (Open Box) Intel® Boxed Core 2 Quad Processor Q6600 $143.96 >>>>> RPC-450 4U Black Rackmount Case $99.99 >>>>> Radeon X1550 512MB HyperMemory PCIe Low Profile Graphics Card $29.99 >>>>> >>>>> I threw 16GB of RAM in it, filled it with 500GB 7200rpm SATA drives, a >>>>> >>>>> 3Ware >>>> >>>> 9500S-8, and run all of my transcoding, encoding, VM's off of it. I >>>>> know >>>>> the parts can be had for much cheaper now too. >>>>> ---- >>>>> Julian >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Joshua MacCraw<[email protected]> >>>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> At $300+ for that? Lol, external multi-bay cases are way overpriced vs >>>>> >>>>>> standard pc cases that have more bays! Top it off it's not even native >>>>>> >>>>>> raid >>>>> but rather 2x port multipliers to a raid card in a PC. >>>>> >>>>>> My thermaltake case for my workstation is 12 bays 5.25" and was >>>>>> cheaper >>>>>> than >>>>>> this external with the advantage that host pc also fits in. Add 4 of >>>>>> the >>>>>> 3-> >>>>>> 5 drive bay adapters it could hold 20 drives if you wanted but that >>>>>> gets >>>>>> expensive fast @ $100/ea. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>
