EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (kaboooom2000uk)

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 20:47:25 GMT

Just to let you know I found a PHOBYA WaCoolIt chassis for very good money, which accommodates the SR2. But its more of a test bench than a Case.

Re:Compatible Chassis for EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 (redmasc)

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:04:18 GMT

The new corsair 900D can fit HPTX boards, anyone know when the case will be available?

Re:Compatible Chassis for EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 (MrBLoody369)

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:36:36 GMT

Any one ever have any issue with installing SR-X in a xilence pro case ? Just wondering it looks like it will fit the bill.

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Update 2-28-2013 -- wont fit with out cutting away 6 inc of steel from the hot swap bays and losing the two bays compleatly since none movable unless you un-rivet the whole case to re-arangeg the bays ans cut out the frontal unused bay from case that sits under the hot-swap bays. ..

Re:Compatible Chassis for EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 (lrresto)

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:24:54 GMT

I am using 3 Xigmatek Elysium Computer Cases one for an SR-X, another for an SR-2 and a third for a smaller board. I also plan on geting a fourth. The case is huge, has lots of ports in/out of the case for water cooling and tons of space for video cards, radiators and drives. Weighs a lot too, but compared to others it's very inexpensive. On Amazon it's only $170.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0078IWPLE/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_ST1_dp_1

Re:Compatible Chassis for EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 (crc454)

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:14:13 GMT

I, like you, have been around the computer business for a long time, going on 29 years, as well as 4 years of college. I have seen and done most of it. I like the Cosmos II case, but it has some problems, least of wich is the price, anywhere from $250 to $349. Having had my SR-2 in a case with one single power supply bay and nearly as large as the Cosmos, I will never do that again. There are 2 things that the SR-2 and the SR-X are hungry for, power and cooling. When you get that much hardware in one box, it needs to have every ounce of configurability you can get. With today's economy you need all of that plus a good bang for the buck. The other problem is it is not compatible with the HPTX form factor of the SR-x (remember, this baby is 15 inches deep), until you see this board close up, you have no idea just how big it is. Believe me when I tell you, lots of space for cooling WILL be needed and I recommend 2 psu's. I run a combined 1900 watts of power and because of distributed power availability, neither psu is pushed to its limit, thus cutting down on generated heat for as you well know heat = power and vice versa. I would rather pay $150 for a case that has clean lines and can be configured any way I need it to be, than one that seems to be mostly eye candy, well built, but eye candy just the same. My SR-2 will be 2 years old in July of 2013 and from the experience of doing as you suggest and doing it with the correct amount of space means my SR-2 runs 30% cooler and is much happier were it is now. One added dividend of using the Blackhawk Ultra is how quiet it is and did I mention price?

Motherboard Types:

Micro-ATX

ATX

E-ATX

XL-ATX

SSI CEB

SSI EEB
took this from the Cosmos II details page, the glaring ommision is HPTX

Compatible Chassis for EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 (da****ui)

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:34:31 GMT

Greetings, everyone. I suggest you read this the whole, it helps a lot.

I've been following some of EVGA products, thinking on assembling a powerful PC some time on. I was searching for some info about the SR-X Mother Board and, well, actually I've got to this forum just "lurking" randomly through EVGA's site. So I have some interesting information to help with the topic.

The deal is as follows, I am an expert technician that likes to search for the best stuff, giving the best options and quality products... for users and myself. So I have invested a lot of time looking for the best options, covering every single detail, related with compatibility stuff of the EVGA SR-X Classified MoBo.

For this forum I've got some help for the ones looking for a compatible chassis for this HUGE MoBo. There are many brands producing Chassis, but most of them have the average (150 mm to 190 mm Width) x (370 mm to 410 mm Depth) x (300 mm - 350 mm Height) Chassis or whatever else, and few others have the right space for it, but leaving a little space for accessories, so that transforms a PC into a "messy connections matter". It's just frustrating if you are looking for a "unique" chassis to showoff with this kind of high performance equipment that really can fit comfortably to it.

Just going to what matters, and to what is related to this forum, my recommended chassis option for this Mother Board, and guess is the best and only option to get the most out of it, is the New Cooler Master chassis released a couple of months ago. This Chassis is not for the ones that want to put some lighting in, admire or showoff their PC components, because it has no translucent panel to look through, but it is one state-of-the-art chassis by itself to showoff. The chassis series name is "Cosmos II". This monster chassis features the next dimensions:
344 mm (W) x 704 mm (H) x 664 mm (D).
As my personal short description for it, I would summarize it as: Really useful, simple and user friendly, "spaceful", accessible, maneuverable, high durability, time saving accessory and component installation, customizable and cool as you want it to be. I leave pick of it at the end.

¿Why so huge? ¿Why do I recommend it? Copy the next line, Google it and enter the Cosmos II microsite to find it out:
Cooler Master Cosmos ii
There you can find its whole specifications, handbooks, guides, etc. in downloadable PDFs and more.

Contact me if you want to know more about compatible components for the EVGA Classified SR-X series Mother Board, and more.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis' (Individuality)

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:52:44 GMT

Are both the corsair cases (800D and 600T) compatible?

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis' (crc454)

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 15:05:29 GMT

I ran my SR-2 in this case for over 1 year and it will work, but requires some small adaptations. the motherboard tray must be moved outward 1 and 1/2 inches with 4 standoffs and the rear edges of the side panels trimed in 2 small places each. Air coolers will not work, H60's are the ticket and a bracket will have to be built to mount 1 cooler over one of the cpu's.
This is not an easy installation. I can't recomend this unless you have as I did someone who has a plasma table to cut out precession brackets.

I have migrated my SR-2 into a Rosewill Blackhawk Ultimate case and I am damn glad I did. it has fan controller circuit boards at the top and bottom and lots of goodies including 3 230mm case fans.

I removed the 230mm case fans and replaced them with 4 200mm fans so I could put 2 on the side panel. The case was 150 bucks and beside making my Xaser VI look small, is one of the quietest caser I have ever built into.

Configuration:
Evga SR-2
2 each E5645 cpu's
2 each Evga GTX 560 ti nVidia cards
X-fi titanium sound card
Hauppage 1850 tv card
24 gigs ram
2 H60 water coolers
16 case fans
Asus DVD recorder
Asus Blueray Player
Thermaltake 1200 watt PSU
OCZ 750 watt PSU
Sylvania Fan Controller
Memory card reader
240 gig SSD
4 terabyte platter hdd's
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate keyboard
Razer Death Adder mouse
Rosewill Blackhawk Ultimate case
3 HP 2511x led monitors

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis' (yourgod)

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 14:22:50 GMT

Would it fit in my Thermaltake Xaser VI? It's a cavernous monster that I can stuff pretty much anything into including huge water cooling radiators that don't fit most cases.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis' (kgemini22)

Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:56:56 GMT

You could also make a sub-list, with cases that are supported with basic mods. Just a suggestion. I've successfully attempted the SR-2 with two cases, that had 10 Slots, and was able to make everything work with very few changes. I believe one of them was the Lian 700, and another model, I would have to check which it was since I don't have the case at the main shop any longer.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (DraginElite)

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 13:07:35 GMT

danny.nguyen

http://www.cubitek.com/pr.ucts/ice-series/hptx-ice

new case :)

that case isnt available here in the US ... yet ... but it is available in the UK ... however with that said I do not like the cubitek case as it does not have an opening for CPU0 and I really dont want to mod the Mobo Tray to make it work ... the rest of the case yes but not the tray

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (alexcortes)

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:03:04 GMT

Hi,
Coolermaster Cosmos II* and Xigmatek Elysium seems missing on the list at first page.
* www.overclock.net/t/1199098/cooler-master-cosmos-2-club/570

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (cheliana)

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:28 GMT

http://www.cubitek.com/pr.ucts/ice-series/hptx-ice

new case :)

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (brucebauer)

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:57:45 GMT

Has anyone checked out AZZA cases htp://azzatek-dot-com/csaz-9000.html
(sorry for the mangled link. The forum admin won't let me post links, yet.)
The Fusion 4000 has been discontinued by newegg but can be purchased elsewhere.
The new Genesis 9000 looks too awesome for words

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (geort45)

Mon, 21 May 2012 11:36:26 GMT

srx9934

Will the board be able to fit in a cooler master cosmos 2?

Read a couple of posts above ;)

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (unarmed13)

Sat, 19 May 2012 22:57:42 GMT

Does the SR-X have to be mounted with thirteen screws? The HPTX motherboard tray on my MH10 doesn't have a standoff in that area which is the closest to the 1st PCIE slots on the heatsink.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (srx9934)

Sat, 19 May 2012 14:03:14 GMT

Will the board be able to fit in a cooler master cosmos 2?

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (geort45)

Thu, 17 May 2012 14:00:51 GMT

raminux

I may replace that fan by using a combination of chipset coolers for the four chips underneath. I am also debating whether by removing the cover on that area and placing a large 120mm pointing directly towards the area, I may indeed get a better cooling performance with less noise. I am not sure if this is a good idea to do though. I don't know what can exactly happen.

You can't replace the fan with just some chipset coolers/heatsinks, for starters the block around the fan is already a heatsink and it NEEDS a fan because what it's cooling is not just some chips but the Northbridge chips (two of them) and they get hella hot

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (raminux)

Wed, 09 May 2012 10:10:30 GMT

I may replace that fan by using a combination of chipset coolers for the four chips underneath. I am also debating whether by removing the cover on that area and placing a large 120mm pointing directly towards the area, I may indeed get a better cooling performance with less noise. I am not sure if this is a good idea to do though. I don't know what can exactly happen.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis' (wolf616)

Thu, 03 May 2012 22:37:37 GMT

Yes my friends in EVGA COSMO 2 WILL FIT SR-X PICTURE WILL BE POSTED.

AS YOU CAN C MY FRIENDS SR-2 FIT. IT'S same size. I own one of the sr-x just got this week.

hey! if I have the corsair GT memory 1866 will that work on evga sr-x even it's only 1600? anybody know it. I need input.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (ashkan)

Thu, 03 May 2012 14:49:07 GMT

raminux

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I will do air cooling and having a quiet case is very important to me.
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this is not possible! The small fan on the evga mainboard is so f... loud that you have to go with watercooling if u want it quiet. sorry...

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (raminux)

Thu, 03 May 2012 10:15:16 GMT

I wouldn't doubt the quality of Caselabs products. I can feel it even from the pictures on their website. It is obvious they have paid a lot of attention to the quality of their cases. There are however points that discourage me from their products:

- I find their cases are somewhat unnecessarily large for an air-cooled system and a SR-2 configuration may only be chosen with their larger cases not the smaller ones.

- Despite their large footprint, one can only install 120mm fans not large size fans like 200mm. So it still does not improve over MM cases noise-wise.

- Moreover, they do not have a horizontal configuration. I particularly like the (square) cube form factor of MM U2-UFO. From exterior point of view, Caselabs cases are not that different from mainstream cases, such as Lian-li cases. I would not say they look better or different than cases like Rosewill Blackhawk Ultra and, Enermax Fulmo GT while they are still quite more expensive than those ones.

A Lian-Li 2120B can be had for $300 when it goes on sale and it is a full aluminum, black anodized case.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (beaker7)

Thu, 03 May 2012 09:48:52 GMT

After building a Case Labs MH10 I will never buy a MMODS again.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (raminux)

Thu, 03 May 2012 08:29:18 GMT

Can I have people's opinion (of those who have tried more than one of the mentioned cases)? How do you compare these cases?
I will do air cooling and having a quiet case is very important to me.

Form factor-wise, I prefer Mountain Mods Cubes (U2-UFO). I also very much like the idea of being able to have a horizontal installation. However, it seems since MM cases can only use 120mm fans, they may end up being quite noisier than the two cases: Rosewill Blackhawk Ultra and, Enermax Fulmo GT which utilize super-sized fans. So, I may loose on the noise side.

On the other hand, MM cases would also cost about four times more ($800 versus $200!). What I will get is their slick look (which I like) and the option of horizontal installation.

Those who have had MM cases, can share their experience in regard to the case noise?

I am certainly planing to replace the VGA cooler with something more efficient and even probably the motherboard chipset cooler will be replaced with a couple of third-party heatsinks (Thermalright, etc.).

Your feedback?

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (pcfxr4u)

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 09:41:20 GMT

The Xigmatek Elysium server cases work great and have room for a finished basement too.
Newegg and Microcenter carry them.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (ashkan)

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:27:16 GMT

Re:EVGA Classified SR-X/SR-2 Compatible Chassis (ashkan)

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:47:32 GMT

lukx

radiantdragoon87

ashkan

Why is this Thread on the top when noone is updating the list. The list is useless without updating. Anyways here is an other new case. This case is made for the sr-2 and belongs on the top of the list I would say:

Xigmatek Elysium Big-Tower

+1 I have this exact case, with one of my current SR-2s in this and it is a perfect fit. I can post pics soon. I want to get a second one for my SR-X build out.

Do you recommend side window or without?

I dont recommend side window! ther window is for a huge fan inside the case. its loud and take the space for the cpu coolers...

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis' (NEMESIS2011)

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:37:35 GMT

CASELABS is the best for this motherboard.

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis (EvilestFool)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:33:22 GMT

Aerocool Strike-X ST

Case Type Full Tower Material SECC 0.8mm Motherboards Micro ATX/ATX/E-ATX/XL-ATX/HPTX Case Dimensions 635mm (H) x 230mm (W) x 700mm (D) Drive Bays 4x 5.25" (Exposed) / 10x 3.5" HDD or 2.5" HDD / 1x 3.5"+2.5" HDD hot swap slot Expansion Slots 10 Max length space available for PCI slots 430mm I/O Ports 2 x USB 3.0 / 2x USB2.0 / Audio+Mic

Re:EVGA Classified SR-2 Compatible Chassis' (geort45)

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:30:12 GMT

m0zeid

Hello,
new member here :)

OK I'm buying the board too, but shipping the case is nearly impossible due to high shipping costs and import taxes.
but i have this option from a local store:

Cooler Master Cosmos Cosmos II RC-1200-KKN1 Ultra Tower ATX

so can the mobo fit in it?

Yes it fits, check out in a previous page I think :)