SirJamesDTech - Cooler Master HAF X 942 Full Tower Case Review

[SirJamesD]

You would have to have a very very very powerful magnet to do any sort of damage to modern HDDs.

I've been experimenting with neodymium magnet retention systems for hot swap drives in enterprise server setups and have yet to see a problem.

If you wanna test it for yourself find an older maxtor or seagate you have lying around (year 2000 and up) and stick some magnets on it and put it in the freezer. It will still work as good as a maxtor/seagate will

I put the "" to show I was only kidding around.
I've tried purposely wiping drives that way too, and it hasn't ever worked.

[NFC]

I know you were kidding, I just get that alot at work for serial and felt like putting it down

[SirJamesD]

This is the best way to deal with an old hard drive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2bzDLsYNlw

[Lanek]

This was the retail version, so not sure why your cutout is seemingly larger.

I will post a photo of it when i can... but as i was said it's maybe due to the position of the socket on your Evga Classified or they have change it on new production.

Anyway, nice review, i agree with other post there, it's nice to see a reviews who don't only glorify a product, as badly it's offtly the case.

[SirJamesD]

That could be, that the socket position is different on your Gigabyte board.
It's gonna be rare to get an A+ out of me with any product.
Everything's gotta be there, including value for the price.

[Lanek]

I agree with you they should have think to a different position, but the Evga is a special case anyway, you should maybe mention it... cause when we watch your review ( it's a good review, no problem with that, personnally i will have give him a B ), we have the feeling CM have done a big error and make an hole, but it's useless... It's a special case if it's only a problem with a specific board..., ofc they could have think to the EVGA ( XL ATX ?) and so specificy it ....

[SirJamesD]

Like I said in the review, the EVGA X58 Classified is pretty much the standard-bearer for the 1366 series.
No offense to a Gigabyte board, but that's just the truth.
You're the first person I've heard who has anything other than a 775 board and can use the cutout.

[Lanek]

All x58 boards use the same position for the socket, it's include offcourse all Asus ( rampage II, III, P6), gigabyte board ( UD3 > UD9), MSI etc..

I need addition the gigabyte use a 90°C turn socket ( horizontal ) when asus is using a "standard " vertical socket, it's even more easy on the initial asus rampage III...

I take a photo tomorrow of the backplate ( my girl is in vacation for the week end and have my focus with her ) you will see there's no problem with any X58 boards.. the case is new ( 1 week ), so maybe they have modifiy that .

[Lanek]

edit: sorry for the bad quality of the photo.. but this is the back hole of a HAFX, you can see a gigabyte X58A-UDR3 with the backplate of the Apogee GTZ waterblock. the X58A UDR3 use a 90°C horizontal socket, it's the same of the UD5-UD7-UD9 version, the position of the socket is the same used on ALL X58 board outside the fact it's horizontal and not vertical ( Asus, etc..) ... i have check with "old" socket 775 motherbooard it work too,.-

I will see with EVGA if they have modified the position of the socket and if this is the problem.


Perfect no ?
**** double post

[SirJamesD]

Looking at the review again, it seems very clear the the socket on the EVGA Classified is further to the <------
Like I said, it's not as if this is an off-brand board. Something that absolutely should've been taken into consideration during the design phase.

[Lanek]

And i said same of you, if the case is made for support all type of motherboard (XL ATX as the evga classified ), this should be mentionned, what i wanted to say, is you will not get this problem with standard ATX boards ..

( sorry for my english )

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[SirJamesD]

I don't believe it's made to support XL ATX, but it is compatible with E-ATX, as my Classified is.
If it's got the standoff support holes for E-ATX, the cutout in turn should be big enough ;-)