What is the difference?
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One's full ones not
You really only need a full tower for a server, or workstation type machine. For any normal gaming, or regular rig, use a mid tower.
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I like full tower. More room to work around in and better airflow for cooling.
Full tower can put more drives in there and have more fans (better cooling)
have you ever heard of google?Kmal1 wrote:
What is the difference?
one is just bigger (full). i perfer full...look cooler and are cooler and yeah.
Uh, I highly doubt you guys mean a full tower. My old 486 is a full tower and it has 6, if not more, 5 1/2" bays. It fills the entire space between the floor and the bottom of the table.
What everyone uses today is a mid-tower.
What everyone uses today is a mid-tower.
no i think they do. i have a full tower, it has 11 5.25 bays (one is used for the power/reset and usb ports)Viper007Bond wrote:
Uh, I highly doubt you guys mean a full tower. My old 486 is a full tower and it has 6, if not more, 5 1/2" bays. It fills the entire space between the floor and the bottom of the table.
What everyone uses today is a mid-tower.
My first build was a full tower... Took up too much room and was a bitch to haul to lans...
Good air flow / room to work with though...
Buy a mid tower and you will be happy unless you want a huge monger case!
Good air flow / room to work with though...
Buy a mid tower and you will be happy unless you want a huge monger case!
Everyone is correct. Full tower is just more room to work and better cooling.
And yes it looks better as well.
My full tower (Lotso room)
And yes it looks better as well.
My full tower (Lotso room)
good lord man.. you could land a plane with all of that lighting...
lmfao i was about to say the same thingNagarond.Damminson wrote:
good lord man.. you could land a plane with all of that lighting...
I think lot of confusion is caused by what case makers now call a 'full tower' case, my current rig is in a Thermaltake Shark case which is marketed as a 'full tower' & has five 5 1/4" bays yet my old rig is set up as a server in an old beige AOpen case which was sold as a 'half tower' & has six 5 1/4" bays.....jaymz9350 wrote:
no i think they do. i have a full tower, it has 11 5.25 bays (one is used for the power/reset and usb ports)Viper007Bond wrote:
Uh, I highly doubt you guys mean a full tower. My old 486 is a full tower and it has 6, if not more, 5 1/2" bays. It fills the entire space between the floor and the bottom of the table.
What everyone uses today is a mid-tower.
Anyhoo, I would always go for a larger case (no matter what they call it) for the same reasons as previously posted - they are easier to work on, there's more room for drives, more room for fans & therefore better cooling
Does anyone here have an extended ATX motherboard? Most of the brand name PCs (dell,hp) have motherboards that are mico ATX size and have a smaller Midtower form factor, some midtowers will fit ex-ATX boards but you should always beable to fit one in a full tower. A lot of the cases have fewer 5 1/2" bays and more 3 1/2" internal bays for hard drives. You only need two optical drives, but more and more people are doing RAID configurations.
Eh, that's a mid-tower. Add another foot or so and you've got a full-tower.
My case is 21" tall and it's a mid-tower:
THIS is a full tower:
More on what each is: http://www.computerhope.com/help/cases.htm
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