rudy
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Its interesting this got bumped and made me think of all this. Crazy that I posted this 5 years ago and the progress in the case world has been so bad I just can't imagine thinking about this 5 years ago all the case makers have made almost no progress in all that time. I actually just built a new computer and bought a new case in the last month so I spent some time looking. The case is still a pretty standard-looking mid ATX with very close to the same dimensions that was the best I could find. I looked around quite a bit and came up with nothing that would really make me happy so I settled on a case that was just alright and conservative. Ultimately these case makers have just opted to make the extra space that was associated with the drive cages to hold water cooling and tons of extra RGB fans. And another funny thing is they have mostly just stopped caring about making cases light, the majority of heavy tempered glass side windows, and its rare to see any offered with aluminum. In my case I ended up with a case where it hides some 2.5 inch drives on the back side of the motherboard, but it still had a 3.5 cage but you could remove it, which I did. In the end though there is just a ton of useless wasted space up front even with front intake fans.
That mATX looks nice but I have never wanted to limit myself to mATX and my current motherboard ended up being a full ATX good news is at least I got 3 M.2 slots.
While I am bitching why are PSU makers still putting those huge hideous stickers right on the side of the PSU instead of putting it on the top or making it smaller.
That mATX looks nice but I have never wanted to limit myself to mATX and my current motherboard ended up being a full ATX good news is at least I got 3 M.2 slots.
While I am bitching why are PSU makers still putting those huge hideous stickers right on the side of the PSU instead of putting it on the top or making it smaller.