Not hard pressed at all to find a case that small with horizontal cd and full height PCI/AGP... there's an Antec Aria attached to my keyboard.
Oddly enough, the layout and hardware of the "new" machine look strikingly similar to the "old" Aria... but I got to choose the mobo.
Bill forcefully reminds me every 30 days to reformat and reinstall. 30-40 minutes to reload and reconfigure WinXP, 10 minutes to reload stuff like Mozilla and AcroReader.
follow-up... I sent them a note about the errors mentioned above. To their credit, I got a note back from the reviewer and the errors have been cleaned up.
If you're making decisions based on product reviews, carefully compare those reviews.
THG's 5 Jan 05 review of the Antec Aria micro-ATX case is so flawed that I suspect that they dry-labbed it... never had the product in hand.
The reviewer said one had to pull the PS to install the mobo. Not true, my D865GLC (with P4 attached) slid right in (In the recent O'Reilly Building the Perfect PC book, those authors elected to pull the PS for convenience... did the THG reviewer mistakenly lift the idea from that source?)
More importantly, the THG review stated that the Aria case only had room for two drives, one full size and one 3.5. I have an Aria case with two 3.5 hds and one optical on board and room for one more hd. A casual inspection of the drive tray or the manual (available online at antec) shows that the design supports one full size (usually optical) and three hds.
Tom's is entertaining, but I'm no longer certain that it's informative.
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Not hard pressed at all to find a case that small with horizontal cd and full height PCI/AGP ... there's an Antec Aria attached to my keyboard.
Oddly enough, the layout and hardware of the "new" machine look strikingly similar to the "old" Aria ... but I got to choose the mobo.
Bill forcefully reminds me every 30 days to reformat and reinstall. 30-40 minutes to reload and reconfigure WinXP, 10 minutes to reload stuff like Mozilla and AcroReader.
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follow-up ... I sent them a note about the errors mentioned above. To their credit, I got a note back from the reviewer and the errors have been cleaned up.
If you're making decisions based on product reviews, carefully compare those reviews. THG's 5 Jan 05 review of the Antec Aria micro-ATX case is so flawed that I suspect that they dry-labbed it ... never had the product in hand.
The reviewer said one had to pull the PS to install the mobo. Not true, my D865GLC (with P4 attached) slid right in (In the recent O'Reilly Building the Perfect PC book, those authors elected to pull the PS for convenience ... did the THG reviewer mistakenly lift the idea from that source?)
More importantly, the THG review stated that the Aria case only had room for two drives, one full size and one 3.5. I have an Aria case with two 3.5 hds and one optical on board and room for one more hd. A casual inspection of the drive tray or the manual (available online at antec) shows that the design supports one full size (usually optical) and three hds.
Tom's is entertaining, but I'm no longer certain that it's informative.
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