View Full Version : Do You Have A Windowed Case?
Sotacs
06-08-2004, 05:10 PM
To Window or not to Window…That is the question
Do you have a case worth bragging about?
Does it have a window?
How about a custom paint job?
I'm curious to hear about it.
lord_emperor
06-08-2004, 06:03 PM
You forgot "Yes I do have a windowed case, I made it myself, did a horrible job and it's ugly."
Sotacs
06-08-2004, 10:03 PM
You forgot "Yes I do have a windowed case, I made it myself, did a horrible job and it's ugly."
Your right, that one slipped by me I suppose.
So how ugly is it?
Kckazdude
06-08-2004, 10:08 PM
You forgot "Yes I do have a windowed case, I made it myself, did a horrible job and it's ugly."
Gotta love the "My Dremel wouldnt hold still" windows :D
Sotacs
06-08-2004, 10:49 PM
Gotta love the "My Dremel wouldnt hold still" windows :D
I know that story oh to well!
I'm sure there has to be a better way...
killernoodle
06-09-2004, 11:39 AM
I don't have a window, nor do I want one. Those things are starting to look like n00b mods anyway. I prefer to make my own waterblocks and liquid cooling setups instead of waste time on cosmetics..
Gargoyle_Hunter
06-09-2004, 11:48 AM
I don't have a window, nor do I want one. Those things are starting to look like n00b mods anyway. I prefer to make my own waterblocks and liquid cooling setups instead of waste time on cosmetics..
Bah, thread crapper :rolleyes:
I don't have a window in my case and I don't want one. I have the entire case lined with DynaMat and adding a window would produce a noise leak. Not worth it when you have a silent case.
xXaNaXx
06-09-2004, 12:02 PM
it wouldn't make much, if any, noise leak if you used some fairly thick plate glass, instead of plexiglas....as long as you dampened the points where the glass mounted to the side of the case, and sealed it up real good so there are no openings around the edges
xplicit
06-09-2004, 12:02 PM
Where's the "I have pre-mod, self made, as well as no window cases." Choice?
:D
Using anything but plexi for a window is an extremely bad idea. First, it has the posibility to shatter when you're moving it. Second, static electricity is conducted and stored in glass fairly easily.
Elledan
06-09-2004, 03:34 PM
It might have crossed one's mind at some point in time that the cases of computers are made out of metal for a reason.
Even though other people might consider EMI to be too small a risk to worry about, there are some who consider the reliability of their systems to be more important than looks.
Crazy, eh? :)
Grizzy
06-09-2004, 03:40 PM
Custom window, custom front door window (Chieftec case - the real deal, not some pre-mod fake), custom paint job (inside and out)
relic
06-09-2004, 03:46 PM
It might have crossed one's mind at some point in time that the cases of computers are made out of metal for a reason.
Even though other people might consider EMI to be too small a risk to worry about, there are some who consider the reliability of their systems to be more important than looks.
Crazy, eh? :)
My Papa John's Pizza box folding farm would have really scared you.
With the OCs that many of these guys run, I don't think reliability is really the top priority. ;)
My main box has an OEM window because it was a cheap case and I'm a cheap guy. The window faces the wall because that's the most convenient location for the case. I also have a case with LED fans and no window, because the fans were on sale for $1 each and I needed a few to replace the old 80's that were in the old case.
So where's the cheap, ugly OEM case with window against the wall option?
FLECOM
06-09-2004, 03:50 PM
It might have crossed one's mind at some point in time that the cases of computers are made out of metal for a reason.
Even though other people might consider EMI to be too small a risk to worry about, there are some who consider the reliability of their systems to be more important than looks.
Crazy, eh? :)
actually its the other way around... your not really that worried about EMI coming into the PC... unless its sitting between two giant 3-phase AC motors or something...
the thing is EMI coming OUT of the computer... but then... who cares?
relic
06-09-2004, 04:17 PM
actually its the other way around... your not really that worried about EMI coming into the PC... unless its sitting between two giant 3-phase AC motors or something...
the thing is EMI coming OUT of the computer... but then... who cares?
Typically noone, unless you live near an airport and the guys in the van with the funny antennae start parking outside your house. ;)
V0ltage
06-09-2004, 09:25 PM
I bought a cheiftec aluminum side panel for my steel antec case... its not even the same shade of black, but whatever, it serves its purpose. i dont have it on now because my cathodes died a few days ago.
Sotacs
06-09-2004, 09:31 PM
I got into this business when Commodore 64's and Atari SE's were all the rage. The computer lab at the college had Apple IIe's. My first mod was was piggybacking a DIM RAM for failover redundancy.
And through the years, I always wondered, why the PC insisted on being so butt ugly!
Computers are the coolest most powerful tool that mankind has ever produced. Almost everybody has one (71% of American homes had a computer in 2002). We seem to like uniqueness in our ways. We like custom, we like fancy, and we like to express who we are and what we believe in. It shows in our dress, our homes, our automobiles and our attitudes. So why not express our selves through our computers? Mod them, (chop and chanel) make them faster (hot-roding), make them sweet, (custom bodies and paint). This part of the computer industry is in it's infancy. You and I are it's explorers. We are the Hot-rodders and the customizers of the 21st century.
Gentelmen...start your engines!!
The DareDevil
06-09-2004, 10:04 PM
No windows yet! :)
Kckazdude
06-09-2004, 10:48 PM
Typically noone, unless you live near an airport and the guys in the van with the funny antennae start parking outside your house. ;)
So, what do we do then? :cool:
Elledan
06-10-2004, 04:41 AM
actually its the other way around... your not really that worried about EMI coming into the PC... unless its sitting between two giant 3-phase AC motors or something...
the thing is EMI coming OUT of the computer... but then... who cares?
I've got the UPS sitting right next to my workstation. I most definitely don't want there to be just a piece of plexiglas between the UPS's voltage-converting components and the system's guts.
Other people place their (unshielded) subwoofer next to their PC-with-window-and-way-too-many-LEDs.
It pretty much depends on whether one is aware and/or cares about this issue.
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