Originally posted by jaeger
Thats why you install fan filters on the intakes. Clean them once a month and all is well.

Part of the current design for the heat loop is doubtless due to cost as well. Cases are simply more expensive when they are designed in a non-standard way. If you are going to pay over $150 (which I'm assuming is a low estimate for that 't' case) why not just watercool a standard case?

All in all an interesting design on that case, but it's footprint is noticably different from my current case and I'm not even sure it would fit in my desk.
Yeah, the footprint is very unusual. It's actually really inexpensive though. I've seen it for £60 (UK sterling) Which is really cheap given the 400W PSU. Its about £15 more than I'd pay for a basic low range case. Water cooled cases are far more than that. it's called the i-tee case. Run a search and see if it's reasonable where you are??

I think I might invest in one when my studio starts our next project cycles.

Of the hundreds of cases (Dell, clones and SGi) we have, only one ever came with a filter, and the rest of the case was rubbish . I couldn't ever afford the time to clean them all. Sensible but not really practical for my organisation.