The Azza case actually has two of those large fans. Its a monster of a case though. It is meant to accomdate EATX boards. Not many of those types of workstation style cases on the market. Azza happens to make some solid ones. I run dual CPU systems in a confined space in my home office for my personal lab projects (opterons and xeons are hot as is the ECC memory that runs them. So I need good cases. Gaming cases sometimes work but in this cause its all about where the air is coming from. In my case it has to be bottom to top exhaust. In a datacenter setup I would have a very different airflow layout. IF the guts of the AMT miners can be moved to another case with ATX/EATX compat for server use I will do that. These cases aren't bad based on looking at them. But good airflow is a must if racking and stacking. And these just wont cut it. You have air intake from the front of the case and then it spits it out the side if its lying down.
The heatsinks are pointing in an impractical way for normal airflow for a case like that. Its an exhaust only system (unless I am missing a fan on the bottom)
All said it can work. And if there is a fan on the side vent of the case that (which is missing in this picture) then it is a workable design. Its not unlike coolling a multigpu setup for gaming rigs.
I would also check the quality of the heatsinks themselves. They might require a bit more lapping if its trivial to remove them. Altho this would only be recommended for VERY experienced hardware people with experience with removing and replacing computer parts. Also the milling of the heatsinks (depending on the setup) would require the right sandpaper grit and some water when sandpapering it to a mirror finish (if its not already). Im talking mods here at the basic level to make the hardware last.
its a good idea to make sure its all in order. If one thing I noticed with all manufacturers is build quality is left to be desired. Never like their renderings. The only things that seem to work as advertised out of the box are the USB eruptors. Everything else tends to have serious QA issues that need inspection.
All said tho not a bad job here. Looking forward to it at this point. Least now we got one order scratched off the unofficial order list
Lets hope the next couple of weeks we start seeing more of them.
Once I get mine I will post more detailed observations. Probably in a seperate post even. I think I covered some stuff based on the picture alone but thats never enough.
EDIT: taking a closer look at the pic I noticed there is something else they could do with this case to vastly improve airflow. Cut open the bottom part of the mounts just enough to expose the heatsink fins. Attach two 120mm fans on the bottom pushing air upwards to the top of the case. Passive vent on the side case (which is apparently there already) and now you have a very cool machine but in turn have to keep the room reasonable cool.
PS: I also noticed no EXIF data on the photo...its been stripped out. Just a point we were making earlier since we have seen this sort of things before. Can you repost some photos WITH the exif intact? Meaning raw photo?
