Salty tears of a hot boxer.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Im sueing Antec those punks

Home made multi-pc case?

http://www.globalsources.com/gsol/I/...1006184386.htm

It will be really noisey but the open air antec and that above suggested (with the hose going out the window) and you have to vent the cold air to blow down onto yur computer top fan is all you need. Just get some flexable hose like they sell for dryers or the more solid ones for gas heater vents from home depot and duct tape it to the top of the air conditioner and point the output at the input of the top fan on the antec and you will run cool for sure. And the hot air will vent out the window.

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[Reglar]

Just out of curiosity, (if I had a better ventilated room!) would this ever be of use for a gamer? It looks insane.

http://www.microdirect.co.uk/Home/Product/38909

Personally I think you're better off getting a normal case with proven thermal management. My last build was made with the Cooler Master COSMOS 1010.

[Sam DeathWalker]

LoL I sure come up in 18 months:

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[-silencer-]

here[/url] is a link to a rig that you can probably 10+ box on if you really wanted to.

i7 920 CPU
Rampage II Extreme MB
12G Corsair Dominator DDR3 1600 RAM
750w Corsair PSU
Antec Twelve Hundred case
1T HDD for OS/apps/anything else
XFX GTX 285 GPU
2x Intel X25-E SLC SSD for RAID 0

total is just around $2,800 with OS, $2,700 w/o (US)

probably the best build you could get for multi-boxing.

hope this helps some ^_^

~YYF

While I agree with some of those specs, why spend $1000 on 2x SSDs when you can get one inexpensive SSD for $100 and be close to as fast for our purpose? Or if speed is really important, spend $380 on the Acard ANS-9010 and $220 on 8x2GB DDR2. That's $600 for performance that will destroy RAID0 SSDs for 2/3 the price. I'd rather have one 300GB Velociraptor for the OS/apps, and 16GB RAID0 SATA ram drive than two 80GB SSDs.. and the Vrap/ramdrive will cost less.

[Yo-Yo Freak]

when i posted that i forgot to mention that it would be cheaper to get just a normal SSD or 2 and i also had not read much about the Acard to want to advice anybody on getting it, now that i have done a little more research on the product i would extremely recomend it over any other option. anyway yes i would have to agree with you silencer that the acard is the best option for our uses.

to revise my old post it would be best (if money is tight or you want to save a little) to go with a lower end SSD and/or lower end RAM. if it isn't a problem then get the Acard and you could still change the RAM. i didn't take much time to put that build together so it stil needed a little refining. i just whent with what i knew would be of good quality. guess i should have stated that in my post and i am sorry for any misleading info that i gave.

~YYF

[BobGnarly]

The key will be getting all your toons to run on the least amount of hardware you can. It's definitely possible to run 5 clients on one box now, and you don't really even need the bestest video card out there. I currently have a E6600 dual core and a gtx260 and it runs 5 clients pretty good except when in Dalaran (and I think we all know that Dalaran just doesn't run good). So I'd get something that just fits the bill to minimize the heat.

[F9thRet]

Not sure if this will help, But I had a similar problem years ago while in college.

What i did, was I went out and bought a small fridge. Dorm room size, and put a couple of holes in the side for the Cables. Resealed it with this foam called Great Stuff. Now the old Pentium 1 was in a cool location. I left the door open at all times as I didn't want condensation to become a problem. It worked like a charm for me, both when I was in Texas and also In Arizona.

all the same, best of luck to you, hope you get it figured out.

Stephen

[Kaynin]

Not sure if this will help, But I had a similar problem years ago while in college.

What i did, was I went out and bought a small fridge. Dorm room size, and put a couple of holes in the side for the Cables. Resealed it with this foam called Great Stuff. Now the old Pentium 1 was in a cool location. I left the door open at all times as I didn't want condensation to become a problem. It worked like a charm for me, both when I was in Texas and also In Arizona.

all the same, best of luck to you, hope you get it figured out.

Stephen

Very energy consuming though. :P

[F9thRet]

Not sure if this will help, But I had a similar problem years ago while in college.

What i did, was I went out and bought a small fridge. Dorm room size, and put a couple of holes in the side for the Cables. Resealed it with this foam called Great Stuff. Now the old Pentium 1 was in a cool location. I left the door open at all times as I didn't want condensation to become a problem. It worked like a charm for me, both when I was in Texas and also In Arizona.

all the same, best of luck to you, hope you get it figured out.

Stephen

Very energy consuming though. :P

That is so true. I could do the same today, as I am using windmill power for the ranch, and even make a buck or two selling back to the coop, But this might be a problem for the OP here.

Stephen