A year ago, I bought a brand new computer. In parts. While in Fry's, I discovered that they did not have the case I wanted, but they had the "gamer's equivalent" for about $20 more. I bought that one.
That was an experience I will be repeating from now on. This case is quiet, much more quiet than the older "office grade" case. This morning, I had the quad-cores running all-out loading the Human genome (homo_sapiens_core_65_37) into MySQL. DNA sequencing took about two minutes, and the whole alignment features collection took about ten minutes total. The hottest spot on the motherboard was 112°F (44C).
Sweet!
That was an experience I will be repeating from now on. This case is quiet, much more quiet than the older "office grade" case. This morning, I had the quad-cores running all-out loading the Human genome (homo_sapiens_core_65_37) into MySQL. DNA sequencing took about two minutes, and the whole alignment features collection took about ten minutes total. The hottest spot on the motherboard was 112°F (44C).
Sweet!