Best big mining case? Airflow? Other parts? Open discussion welcomed.

[Desolator]

What is that "case" called?  I don't care about noise much myself.

That's an Aerocool Strike X Air.  According to tech power up "AeroCool plans to make the Strike-X Air available some time in early-October."
Of course that's not when their CPU magazine ad ran.  They're famous for making overpriced, not great quality parts so if you don't care about ease of use and looks, there are open air cases for 1/2 the price.

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[ralree]

No cases here.  I have 2 rigs with the motherboard directly on the shelf, and cards wedged in between the PCI slots.  I put 1 120mm fan (low-medium RPM) in the back of the shelf for intake, and a huge 120+ CFM Delta fan right behind the cards (3x7970 in my rigs) for exhaust out the front of the shelf.  Both rigs are rock solid since I set them up this way (about a month ago).  Temperatures are in the low 70C's with onboard GPU fans running at 50% or so.  All cards are overclocked to 1050-1100mhz with RAM 150mhz below core and stock voltage (linux, so I can't do more than that, sadly).

Of course, it's likely that all of this will be sold in a few months once ASIC kicks in.  Or maybe LTC will actually take off.

[underminer]

Its good money right now if you can find a good pool.  I build crazy computers for myself as a hobby anyway so jumping on this bandwagon is really no loss.  I am working on a case that's partially open with fans blasting in as a default design.  I run about 3-5 machines at any one time for this.

[crazyates]

As far as cases go, does anyone know of a good, open-air case that's WC friendly? That Aerocool looks totally BA, but also looks hella expensive. I've looked into that Liam Li, also, but I don't see any good spot for a decent rad, let alone 2.

As far as fans go, I got these POS Scythes cuz I was like ZOMG 110CFM! I knew they'd be loud, but I hadn't realized they only have a 30,000hour MTBF. Balls. One failed after like 2 months, and a 2nd started to go.

I replaced them with these Courgar fans, and they've been much better! On top of the lower noise, and the dust not sticking to the blades nearly as much, the sleeved cables, and the fact that they're cooler looking (I hate plain fans, but I also hate LED fans. These are perfect!), they've been rock solid.

[underminer]

I really like the idea of repurposing some of the huge dell server cases as shown in the "now accepting bitcoins for surplus tech" thread.  Someone was thinking about those for some sort of alternative mining circut I believe...