Post your old computer cases.
Had this back in 2005 playing Dungeon Siege, Diablo 2, and Halo 2. It was such a slow piece of shit but I couldn't tell the difference as a young lad.
Post your old computer cases
William Rivera
Kevin Harris
COD4 had a mac port
Aaron Ramirez
I stuffed a XFX 7600GT inside this proprietary case - it didn't close all the way anymore but fuck it. I could play WoW on medium settings and get 20fps. All up until the motherboard's capacitors blew.
John Jenkins
why have we abandoned mascots?
Camden Rodriguez
We didn't deserve them
Andrew Taylor
God they're dated but they're so charming. Kinda miss them, wish AMD kept up with it.
Parker Barnes
Soon i'll switch this case out with a sff case.
Not sure if i'll sell the case with parts or just sell the parts and keep the case.
I might do the latter as i love the dam thing. (even if it surpasses my needs).
Adrian Adams
My first case ever was an Antec Sonata II.
I can't believe they were still putting keys onto cases, even then.
Tyler Foster
Had one of these for a while, it was p good, upgraded when graphics cards got LONG
Jacob James
I don't have a picture of my very first AT case but I had used this ATX case for about a decade.
It's the original Chieftec Dragon in beige.
12 kg empty weight. Not bad for a midi tower.
Mason Collins
popular case from what i've seen.
the youtuber "bill owen" showed it off i think.
Adam Bailey
I wish there was cases built like tanks still. There's no reason for it to be, just would be nice.
Isaiah Rivera
mine was black
Ian Collins
Coolermaster ATCS 840
Used this glorious thing for 9 years until all the fans started simultaneously dieing. Recently replaced with Fractal Define R5 Titanium
Jacob Torres
R5 bro here. I wish I had the Titanium but it was $30 more at the time. $80 for an new R5 in 2016 felt like a steal
Hudson Morgan
The first desktop that I bought and could call my own was a middling-spec Gateway DX prebuilts from 2012 that I threw an HD 6850 and a beefier power supply into. They still use this case to this day, judging by their website.
I liked it. IO ports for days, convenient little cubby on top of the PC for stuff. Shit airflow and nonexistent case filters though because of course.
Luis Rodriguez
Had the antec version with side window.
Nolan Taylor
2011-2012 case. Just bought it used. Not really old but I really like that era of "a billion hard drives, crazy ass cooling and the size of a minifridge" shoutouts to the HAF cases and Corsair 500r. 2010-2013 cases were great.
Jordan Campbell
Used this dust collector for 5 years.
Blake Sanchez
>why have we abandoned mascots?
because they are fucking hideous
Andrew Gonzalez
Goatse
Nolan Price
user why
Julian White
Yeaaahhhh intake holes with blue LEDs make your prebuilt cooler!
Jace Thompson
Reminds me of my old gaymen case. Bought it pre built from a local computer store about 8 years ago and I'm still using it, apart from the case, of course.
It had an X58 board with an i7 930, 8GB of RAM and a 8400GS. After some time the psu died, I replaced the 8400GS with a GTX 460, then added 8 more GB of RAM, then a SSD and recently replaced the i7 930 with a Xeon X5650 and bought a GTX 1070.
Jaxon Parker
I disabled those first chance I got.
the button was hidden very well.
Easton Myers
A friend had it, still looks cool but fairly impractical.
Juan Kelly
I had an optiplex gx620 which looked similar to this.
Mason Jackson
My server currently uses this case.
Anthony Lopez
The vent on the side has a duct going over the CPU cooler too. Unfortunately I had to saw it off because the CPU cooler is too tall.
Also I made the mistake of buying a 7900GTX when 8800 came out 7-8 months later.
Anthony Jones
looks exactly like a xbox360 pretty cool.
some ITX people would prob be into that these days.
Dylan Evans
Obligatory.
Logan Parker
Chieftec case master race
Christian Stewart
Ive got an ATCS 201 sitting around i should probably do something with eventually
Dylan Edwards
dawn is cute tho
Elijah Walker
Hard to find an image but it was a Systemax prebuilt PC with an acrylic window cutout. It was a Pentium 4 2.4GHz with a GeForce 2. The first case I chose for a custom build PC was an Apevia X-Telstar case, pretty big, decent space for thermals but it was not that easy to work with.
Leo Sanchez
Lian Li A71-F
When I bought it, all I knew about it was that it was gigantic, full aluminium, cost $150, and had free shipping. NCIX probably took a $100 loss selling this thing.
I plan on bringing it back one day to reuse as file server chassis.
Nolan Smith
Still use this but in blue and with the little side window. Wish they would release an updated version of those.
Jose Hill
This Compaq was my first family PC.
Angel White
I'd still be using it, but I wanted 3.0 on my front panel and it always cut the fuck out of my hands
Lucas Rogers
yeet here we go
i went and dug it out of a storage unit to do a little bit of refurbing ive been meaning to get done
Caleb Morris
it still needs some more work, it doesnt have the original windowed side panel, it has a solid one that the original owner cut an 80mm fan mount into and fucked up the paint in the process
the front mesh is dented but thats an easy fix
a weird one is the top has two little dents, the psu mount inside looks like it was never meant for longer ATX power supplies, so they bent out the top corners of it and as a result, pushing a soft metal panel over it has obviously caused some problems
i can fix that kind of stuff though
not sure what to put in it, ive got like 50+ different graphics cards, i like to make builds around their aesthetic sometimes
maybe something with dual twin frozr ii cards, that shiny metal aesthetic
Michael Myers
looks like a very angry asian man
Benjamin Clark
Power Mac 7300. Outriggers were the pinnacle of case design.
The Dimension 8400 was my family's first Windows PC. What a disaster, that case had basically zero airflow with a Pentium 4 house heater inside.
Gavin Anderson
Kek. It's called vampire for some reason
Benjamin Hall
> bitches about airflow
> posts "pinnacle" power mac machine with absolutely no airflow
um lad your a stupid head
Noah Gonzalez
Jayden Cook
Pretty nice retro case. Post results when you're done if the thread is still up
Dylan Gonzalez
i could imagine that being really advanced-looking in, like, 2004-06
Jonathan James
That looks great and snappy even for 2018. For a design released in 2003, the PowerMac G5 / 2006 Mac Pro case was ahead of its time.
Andrew Cook
LMAO, so you were the poor kids house i visited that couldn't afford alienware and instead bought the knock off case, ahh those were the days.
Nathan Gray
>three_eyed_cybernetic_minion_knight.jpg
Aiden Jenkins
I had this my folks got me it for Christmas and over time I had green led fans and green cold cathodes in it. I had my trusty HD 7950 in it with my fx 6100. My HD 7950 eventually nuked itself, and I started a long tedious process of trading pc's and shit. I miss it sometimes.
Henry Diaz
Actually a super nice PC even by today's standards. I'm running an i7 920 @ 4ghz 3x4gb 2000mhz ram and a 970. Will buy a xeon when I feel the need
Xavier Martin
Still using this fucker. I bought it in like 2004. I just rebuild around it. Nothing a dremel with a saw disc can't fix.
It's covered with stickers, has a few fan grills I stole from other cases and a powersupply superglued in the hacked out drive bays; a bluetooth dongle tower, a wifi antenna permanently attached to the roof, and I had to stomp my EVGA 1600watt psu into it then jb weld it in place.
No regrets.
Austin Phillips
Repurposed for proxmox cluster and ceph pool
Luke Bailey
reminder that you can get a mid 2000's aesthetic rig
Bentley Cook
I need to add the final case, don't think I'm upgrading or buying new parts anymore.
Juan Ramirez
Christopher James
This ones the cutest case ITT
Xavier Rivera
Literally perfect and you can fuck right off if you don't agree.
Jaxson Carter
Adam Jackson
Mah boi, had the 1200 myself. It was a good case at the time, but I got pretty sick of it after 8 years of use.
Mason Fisher
been in use since 2007
Owen Jackson
I think I still have the led strip stashed somewhere
Dominic Hughes
Oliver White
what's the name of that case? it looks really nice
Wyatt Edwards
I had this exact same case only the front icon was an alien face ( fake alienware).
I still have it somewhere for some reason, obviously never gonna use it again because besides looks the case is awefull, no airflow or cable management,
Owen Johnson
ayyyyyy lmao
Ian White
Some pre-built HP that looked exactly like this one
Jason Brown
It is indeed, I can play any game on max settings at 1440p easily, apart from a few unoptimized ports. You should definitely upgrade to a Xeon, it's much more power efficient and runs much cooler, giving more room to overclock, and also has two more cores and higher IPC.
Lmao
Ryan Morris
Fuckkkk I started learning XHTML on this piece of crap. Loved that case, itb felt so sci-fi. No way I would have disabled the LEDs.