Umm... An 80mm fan rated at 13dB?? Might wanna change that to 33dB (I assume) - half way down page 4...

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For nearly the same price, you can get the aluminum Cooler Master Praetorian (w/o the 350 watt power supply). Why would anyone get the Centurion 5?

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I know another site has reviewed the Cooler Master Praetorian, but I would like Anantech to review it. I like the look of it better than the Lian Li cases,and from everything I have read/heard it is very sturdy, and an exceptional case, as long as you replace the stock fans.

Can you try to get a Praetorian for review?

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Degrador: The order of those specs were wrong. The 120mm is rated at 13dBA and their 80mm is actually rated at 25dBA. This has been fixed in the article. Thanks for pointing that out. :)

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Not a fan of this case. I do like the meshgrill in the front, but the silver added into it turns me off. I like my case to be a single color.

The other thing I didn't like about this case is that it's a mid-tower case.

On the plus side though, the tool less drive bay features are cool.

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That case is available in blue and red in addition to the silver (I like the blue, personally). In addition to the toolless drive bays, I like the fact that it's quiet. Add a low-noise 80mm fan like the Nexus (17.6 dB) or Papst (12 dB) and the noise levels would drop even more.

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"Some of these had clean, elegant designs that were extremely attractive, while a handful of others were designed with themes that were extremely unattractive and did not appeal to AnandTech readers at all.

From the comments posted, we came to the conclusion that the majority of our readers, instead of having a fancy-looking product lacking the features that they need, would rather have a case with a very simple look and with only those certain features that they can't do without during their regular use."


You win today's Stating the Obvious Award. Congrats!

In any case, thanks for listening to your readers. We very much appreciate the non-butt-ugly case reviews.

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Hey now, I liked that Spider man case!

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What are you referring to when you listed South Bridge temps? I believe the NF3-250 chipset doesn`t have a South Bridge.


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LocutusX: That is correct, in place of the NorthBridge results for the Centurion we have entered our results for the single nForce chip and left the Southbridge results for the previously benchmarked cases. This change results from the switchup of our testbed motherboard.

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