For years I have searched for the "ultimate overclocking case". Size has never been a factor other than bigger is always better. I've modified many standard mid and full tower cases, but space is always a problem if you mess with water cooling or just have a lot of "stuff". Sure, the standard full towers have space, but even they seem cramped once you stuff all of your goodies in there. For years I've been wanting a true server sized case. Not a giant rack mount enclosure the size of a refrigerator, but full tower case that is twice as wide as the standard tower. The only thing that was holding me back was actually having a need for something that big. Over the past few months I've slowly upgraded my file server to SCSI and now my standard full tower is too small. Now is the perfect time to graduate to a REAL server case!

     Maxtop Technology was kind enough to offer up one of their server enclosures to see if it would fit my needs and pass my tests. I told them I wanted something very big, but just short of a rack mount. They told me they had just the thing, the dual purpose CSF-1630B that can be both a stand alone server enclosure or a rack mounted enclosure. Perfect! In just a few short days, my wife called me at work and started chewing me out over the phone and asking me what I ordered this time that took 2 burly men and a cargo dolly to transport. In a panic, I rushed home thinking that somehow we received the neighbor's new oven, but to my delight, it was a WELL PACKED new server enclosure from Maxtop!

     Weighing in at just shy of 100lbs, this crated up bad boy sat in the middle of my living room like the monolith from the movie 2001. In fact, I could swear I could even hear the theme music from the same movie playing... Suddenly, the music in my head stopped as my wife asked me "Just don't stand there drooling, get this thing out of my living room!". Funny, if she only knew that I'd soon have packing material and cardboard scatter throughout the house like it was Christmas morning in May... In no time at all, I had the Maxtop CSF-1630B unpacked and ready to receive the guts of my dual Athlon file server! Check out this jet black beauty! I think I'll call her the HAL9000!

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