Antec Sonata ?'s

[Banyan]

Any of you with this case able to take both sides of the case off? I was anting to do a cleaner wiring of my case and it looks like it may not come off, which is COMPLETE B.S. if so. May have to camp newegg refurbs and hopefully run into a collermaster ac710 or something.

[Claw13Angel]

i dont know about antec sonata, all i know is that it is steel and hell its gonna be heavy when you put hardwares in it. I would definitely camp for coolermaster case since its aluminum

[larva]

Yes it is steel, no it is not heavy. If you can't lift it getting an aluminum case isn't going to change the situation.

The far side (and top) does not come off. It is attached with pop rivets though, so if you are fanatical about it you can drill them out ant take the top and far side off. If you choose your drill carefully you could then use screws to re-attach it, making it removable from that point on. I agree it's hard to do artful wiring without removing the far side.

[Banyan]

that sucks... not only did i want to rewire it, i was going to dremel a blowhole etc, which this makes almost imossible. wtf was antec thinking?!?

Asus P4PE w/P4-1.8a at 3240MHz

damn, that's an insane oc. don't think i've seen a 1.8a pushed that far on air.

thanks for the replies guys...

[Hookem]

Try removing the power supply...I remove it to tape up the "Antec" holes on the right side and to clean up the wiring...Nice case...I use two Vantec Stealths instead of the Antec fan and connect them to regular molex connectors...Running a Thermalright SKL-800 with a Y.S. Tech adjustable fan adjusted just to just below "scream" mode...Idles at 30C and is really quiet...:)...With the power supply out it should be no problem to get a 80m/m blow hole fan between the power supply and CDRW, DVD, etc...:D...Ran 3DMark 2003 and hit 33.4 and 51.4C on the CPU, GPU using the Lain-Li T-4 temperature monitoring rack...:cool: