I'm curious. what is perform poorly? Fan that's too noise?
The poor performance (assuming you are talking about the 212EVO) comes from the horrid temps. Idle, and I kid you not, the stock cooler has lower temps. Under load (not overclocked) the 212 is only 4-6* cooler. I expected a lot more from it, especially seeing as it is not even that cheap of a cooler. It is silent though, but with auto fan settings, so is the whole computer, and that is with 8 fans on it (6 case fans (120), CPU fan, and GPU fan). under load the little 4870 is a freaking jet engine basically.
The case performs poorly because it is too expensive, is limited on expansion, has rather short front panel connectors (only really matters if your boards connectors are not right at the bottom, which HD audio on the H61DE/S3 is not). The cable management holes are just poorly placed, and frankly useless. Anything larger than an 8 pin cable and you have to bend the back panel to get it to go back on, and use a hammer to line it up well. It needs more room to be even acceptable in cable management. And price was its only selling point to me when I got it. Now that is not even a sell because there are much better cases for similar prices. If it would drop down to say round $30, then it could hide behind its price tag again.
Yeah it must be pretty late (or early) for you!
I don't see any problems. I say go for it.
That it was. 0300 I think. heck, its 0100 right now.
But anyway. I am cutting it close now. Very close. But I think I have pinned the beast now. And I liked the review/unboxing/101 that I watched on this unit. And it looked beast all put together.
Upgrades list now:
http://www.frozencpu.com/products/1...p_and_RX360_Radiator_and_Free_Dead-Water.html
-I am taking a gamble on it. it is a 360 unit, which is going to be a pain to fit to the 912 in any usable manner. Hoping that I can just bolt it to the top and route the hoses in that through the holes in the back. If not, then heres to a 240 rad with a 120 rad.
-Also hoping that it will be good enough to add a GPU to the loop, with another Rad added of coarse.
-Also hoping it has enough hose to tidy it up a bit. Might get 20 foot of hose just encase anyway.
and
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131478&name=Desktop-Graphics-Cards
-is this the reference design? I sure hope so.