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Howard_Casto:
Eh I ended up with the cooler master after all. For whatever reason all the mid range cases that weren't ugly were sold out or on backorder. I mean if I want to wait around and see if they come back in..nah.. It'll take a while for all the parts to come in and I need to get things ordered before old (not so)reliable poops out on me. Now I'll search for some good fans...

fallacy:
PC cases have come a long way, in 2007 one of the best cases you could get was the Antec Nine Hundred; so good you can still buy it today. https://www.newegg.com/antec-ca-900/p/2BA-00C0-00005
If you were to compare it to even the cheapest case today there is...
no dust filter.
no power supply shroud.
no way to wrap the wires from the back of the case to the front, so all wires would just be hanging in your build.
the only way to get to the hard drive bays is to unscrew these shelves from both sides of the PC unplug your drive and pull from the front.
No case fan hub, each fan had to be plugged individually from the power supply.
Even the first attempt at a glass side panel looks lame.
about the only thing it did right were the fans and air flow

Osirus23:
Fractal Design cases are the best.

Howard_Casto:
*sigh*

Well I guess I'm going case hunting again. Staples sent me an email saying they were out of cases...even though the website clearly still shows them in stock. Oh but the $2 worth of paper I used to pad my order up to $60 is on it's way. :banghead: Those ---uvulas--- just didn't want to honor the coupon. So I'm not buying from them and Newegg doesn't have that case in stock. Back to the drawing board. Oh but My cheap-fu is paying off and I'll be closer to my target than I expected. I'm going to put a running total in the first post just in case it proves helpful to anyone else.

nexusmtz:

--- Quote from: fallacy on May 12, 2020, 10:15:17 pm ---PC cases have come a long way, in 2007 one of the best cases you could get was the Antec Nine Hundred; ...

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I'm still doing the cable smash every time I slide the mangled fingers of the side panel back into place. 900 forever! :lol

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