what are the good cases these days? i've been looking for one and the mid-high quality ones all seem to be full of glass, which i wanted to avoid. atm i'm considering pic related, since it comes with dust filters everywhere, doesn't have openings for dust to get in (like the corsair 570x/500d) and has decent space for cable management and storage
that said, i like the cases from 4 or 5 years ago more (last time i had to buy one)
kys
Depends on what you want out of a case.
A lot of the things you will fuck up on are things you don't pay attention to and realize after you bought the case already.
For example positioning of usb/audio ports. Do you want them on the pside or in top?.
How many drive bays you want?. some nowadays don't even have a optical drive spot.
You want one with a reset button?. It's little shit like this that vary on a case by case basis.
top, i wanted an optical drive spot actually. i don't need a reset button
i see what you mean though. it's annoying that you can't find a case with everything you want. my priority are dust filters (currently my case needs to be cleaned more often than i want because it only has dust filters bellow -- it's the fractal define r4), enough mounts for my hdds/ssds (i have 2 hdds and 4 ssds atm) and support at least a 240mm radiator
there's all sorts of other things i'd want (sound dampening, optical drive, preferably no fans included and so on). but i gave up on getting everything i'd want
i feel like years ago, cases were better. or at least i liked them more. maybe it's just the glass and rgb shit, i dunno
good cases are the smallest ones, today.
if you can't pack your pc in a travel case you did it wrong
and why is that?
well. let's start with this. What case you got now. What DON'T you like about it?.
Because basically you can just buy one simliar in every way except the ways you don't like.
like i said in the previous post, i have the fractal define r4. the front connectors broke after it fell and now the front is loose. what i don't like about it:
1. doesn't have dust filters on top, filters in front aren't as easy to remove as they should be imo, so i need to clean it too often
2. temps don't seem to be as good, probably the fractal fans though
3. the front headphone jack gives me mono audio, happened with multiple motherboards throughout the years
i thought about buying the fractal define c too, instead of the one in the op
>be me
>go to country's biggest computor website
>click on atx cases
>328 result
>filter out windowed side panels
>32 result (several cases has different color so it is basically a dozen windowless cases
one without obnoxious rgbs, good airflow and has some kind of dust prevention