thesasquatch
11-01-2003, 08:14 PM
I'm not sure if this is a gripe of mine or a valid question for someone to answer - LOL.
I just received my V1000D (thermaltake) case yesterday and built another system with an MSI Neo-Fis2r motherboard and P4 3.0ghz chip.
I've built at least 2000 computers in the last 8 years and have NEVER been more frustrated or confused when building a system -- NOR has it taken me nearly 4 hours before!!
First, the manual is terribly written (it's difficult to tell whether it was written by someone from the headquarters in Taiwan - which would be understandable - or if it was just very poorly written by one person in a very short amount of time). I've actually seen a couple people mention this same concern recently on this site.
The second thing of concern to me was the amount of fans and connectors in this case which have absolutely NO instruction or obvious place where they should be connected together. I'm not an idiot and I spent over 4 hours trying to figure out which of the Lead wires and fan plugs went where. Additionally, I have a fairly high-quality Power Supply and don't have nearly enough 4-pin plugs to completely connect everything. For the life of me, I cannot figure-out how to get the fan speed controllers to control the internal (8) fans in the case because they're all "daisy-chained" together as the manual briefly instructed and the controller does not adjust their speed AT ALL.
The third thing of concern are the GOSH-DARN "quick-release - screwless" clips which are supposed to fasten your AGP/PCI cards into the case without the usual clip screws. I've got an NVidia Geforce4 4600 and a Soundblaster Audigy2 and neither one of these will allow the clip-fastener to even BEGIN to snap shut. When these cards are inserted, the wafer part of the actual cards sticks-out beyond the height of the screw bracket of the card (which means the cards wafer sticks out beyond the screw-fastening wall) and the clips which are supposed to just rotate shut don't even budge because the waferboard of the cards are all in the way. I've tried EVERYTHING. UG!
Additionally, the manual instructs you to place the thermal-diode wire underneath the processor BEFORE seating the processor in the ZIFF 478 socket on the motherboard and to run the diode wires through the pins on your processor so that it will still seat completely to the ziff socket. THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY referring to an AMD system because the P4 processors are sooo tiny that I had to literally coil-up the diode as it is nearly an inch and a half in length (not to mention the shrink tubing which follows the actual diode which is also stiff and difficult to fit between the processor pins). I spent over an hour and managed to somehow coil the diode and shrink-tubing to get it flat enough and run the wires strategically enough to get the processor to actually seat in the socket and clip shut!! LOL. DOUBLE-UG!! :shake:
All - in - all, this case is pretty amazing as the way it is designed doesn't leave much left to be desired. It has the look (asthetically) that I really like and the interior options and controllability is pretty amazing. However, the amount of hassle to get everything figured-out on your own.....nearly unbearable.
Any input? I'm all ears.
I just received my V1000D (thermaltake) case yesterday and built another system with an MSI Neo-Fis2r motherboard and P4 3.0ghz chip.
I've built at least 2000 computers in the last 8 years and have NEVER been more frustrated or confused when building a system -- NOR has it taken me nearly 4 hours before!!
First, the manual is terribly written (it's difficult to tell whether it was written by someone from the headquarters in Taiwan - which would be understandable - or if it was just very poorly written by one person in a very short amount of time). I've actually seen a couple people mention this same concern recently on this site.
The second thing of concern to me was the amount of fans and connectors in this case which have absolutely NO instruction or obvious place where they should be connected together. I'm not an idiot and I spent over 4 hours trying to figure out which of the Lead wires and fan plugs went where. Additionally, I have a fairly high-quality Power Supply and don't have nearly enough 4-pin plugs to completely connect everything. For the life of me, I cannot figure-out how to get the fan speed controllers to control the internal (8) fans in the case because they're all "daisy-chained" together as the manual briefly instructed and the controller does not adjust their speed AT ALL.
The third thing of concern are the GOSH-DARN "quick-release - screwless" clips which are supposed to fasten your AGP/PCI cards into the case without the usual clip screws. I've got an NVidia Geforce4 4600 and a Soundblaster Audigy2 and neither one of these will allow the clip-fastener to even BEGIN to snap shut. When these cards are inserted, the wafer part of the actual cards sticks-out beyond the height of the screw bracket of the card (which means the cards wafer sticks out beyond the screw-fastening wall) and the clips which are supposed to just rotate shut don't even budge because the waferboard of the cards are all in the way. I've tried EVERYTHING. UG!
Additionally, the manual instructs you to place the thermal-diode wire underneath the processor BEFORE seating the processor in the ZIFF 478 socket on the motherboard and to run the diode wires through the pins on your processor so that it will still seat completely to the ziff socket. THEY'RE OBVIOUSLY referring to an AMD system because the P4 processors are sooo tiny that I had to literally coil-up the diode as it is nearly an inch and a half in length (not to mention the shrink tubing which follows the actual diode which is also stiff and difficult to fit between the processor pins). I spent over an hour and managed to somehow coil the diode and shrink-tubing to get it flat enough and run the wires strategically enough to get the processor to actually seat in the socket and clip shut!! LOL. DOUBLE-UG!! :shake:
All - in - all, this case is pretty amazing as the way it is designed doesn't leave much left to be desired. It has the look (asthetically) that I really like and the interior options and controllability is pretty amazing. However, the amount of hassle to get everything figured-out on your own.....nearly unbearable.
Any input? I'm all ears.