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Loading ...The Little Case That Turned Huge!!!
Elemental Dragon ¦ Bex
So you’re all probably wondering about the title? Well, it all began with my 1st proper upgrade. I got my 1st good machine in the end of 2004 – a gift from the council – cash to build me a suitable machine to do heavy graphics work brought home from school.
It was elite then, originally an AMD Athlon 3.7, 512MB which was soon swapped for 2GB, a skt939 Gigabyte K8 Triton motherboard with SLI and a BFG nVidia 7600GT. I sadly couldn’t afford a big fancy 7000 series card, as I’d only £375 to build an up-to-date tower with. However, with my SLI motherboard, I could pair another card up to gain some extra power when I needed it.
It was the year before that I’d caught the computing bug, and I really wanted a fancy case for my PC, but as I couldn’t afford much, my hopes of a case that I really liked were dampened. But, not all hope was lost, as after much scavenging, I found a neat case (Well, it was neat at the time lol) with a nice red cathode for £10 in Glasgow! Ok, so the door was broken on it, but with a little handy work, it was easily fixed.
This PC worked like a dawg until around August, 2006, when I began to feel the need for a dual core CPU. However, in the confusion of the new AM2 chipset with DDR coming out, I was told I’d need to change socket and punted my machine that day to someone desperate for a build. I didn’t sell all of it though, I kept my HDD and GFX card, in hope it’d save me some money…
By now, I really wanted a nice small form PC, as they were very much in at the time. So I came across the ideal case, but I never came across the micro ATX SLI board that I so dearly needed to save cash.
Time was now running short, and I really needed a PC, so we ordered some nice AM2 parts, a 4200+ X2 (that would be replaced by a 4800+ when they came into stock). Now time for a shiny case. I was saddened at the loss of my first elite case, but knew it’d be worth it…. if only the cases I wanted had been in stock!!!
This is where the fun starts, as all the nice Thermaltake cases were no where to be found. 1 left after my final alternative choice was sold. So I took a chance, was told it was really nice, not to big either, just like the Tsunami but round door. Oh how we were wrong, as we both almost passed out with laughter and disbelief when the box with my case came out. My case? The Thermaltake Eureka – at the time – largest case out on the market….
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