Enlight case, wot no speaker?

Just treated myself to an Enlight microtower EN-2400 which at £ 38.00 wasn't
cheap. I must say everything feels a bit more flimsy than expected, but time
will tell whether I've made the right decision.

One thing that struck me, the case doesn't have a built in PC speaker. I am
only an occasional system builder and I don't know what I'd do without my
beep codes following POST!

Clearly I can just temporarily connect another speaker when I build a new
system, but I am thinking what about the entire life span of the PC,
occasionally components do fail and the beep code can point you in the right
direction.

I noticed that this 'tower' is very low volume, yet rated for seriously hot
processors; it has ventilation holes everywhere and I wonder, could the
omission of a speaker be to do with fairly desparate attempts at meeting
some cooling standard?

Or is this a general trend? I wouldn't mind so long as mobos come with some
onboard tweety things instead, but my new Asus mobo certainly hasn't.

SORRY meant to post this to uk.comp.homebuilt.


"E. Noob" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Just treated myself to an Enlight microtower EN-2400 which at £ 38.00
> wasn't cheap. I must say everything feels a bit more flimsy than expected,
> but time will tell whether I've made the right decision.
>
> One thing that struck me, the case doesn't have a built in PC speaker. I
> am only an occasional system builder and I don't know what I'd do without
> my beep codes following POST!
>
> Clearly I can just temporarily connect another speaker when I build a new
> system, but I am thinking what about the entire life span of the PC,
> occasionally components do fail and the beep code can point you in the
> right direction.
>
> I noticed that this 'tower' is very low volume, yet rated for seriously
> hot processors; it has ventilation holes everywhere and I wonder, could
> the omission of a speaker be to do with fairly desparate attempts at
> meeting some cooling standard?
>
> Or is this a general trend? I wouldn't mind so long as mobos come with
> some onboard tweety things instead, but my new Asus mobo certainly hasn't.
>
>