Choosing a Good Case

Sir Joltalot writes "There's a great guide at Tom's Hardware about choosing a good case. They also look at a few very interesting and slick cases you can get and discuss recent trends in modding. A good read if you're new to building computers or thinking about modding a case for the first time." I've been planning to build a new machine for a few months now, so this is timely for me.

Comments

None are QUIET! All are noisy! Biased site.

[Anonymous Coward]

None are QUIET! All are noisy! That is a biased site.

That site promotes multiple noisy fans in every case!

Hilarious! While apple products strive to make a noiseless machine lacking any fans (except if temperatures spike too high) Apple 2, Mac plus, Mac Cube, iMac, apple laptops, etc, the pc world not only likes noise they design their cases to lack the :"Chimney column effect"

They also have sites like the one in this article link written by people who like noisy load boxes!

hilarious!

Try to find any hardware tweakers site that even thought of a quiet box or REDCUCING the fan noise. You won't.

Thats because "They dont' get it".

Even Steve Jobs loudest computer, the 12 thousand dollar NeXT cube had a 10 foot set of cables so that you could place it in a closet and never need to go near it or listen to its fans. We had ours decked out to 42 thousnad dollars of components and addons but were too proud to hid it so we put it on the other side of the room. It was silent compared to the persitent drone promoted by sites such as this article.

They think a few firewire ports up front or aluminum boxes are "cool". Sheesh...

Apple's G4 flip open cases are still a joy to own

[crovira]

I have yet to find another case as easy to open, get at all the components and make whatever mods are required and flip closed than the Apple tower cases.

Man I hate opening up my PC case to get at stuff. The Mac case just flips open and everything's exposed. There's no reason for it either. I'm sure PC makers could offer the same convenience. Why do we secure our drives on BOTH sides of the unit? An L shaped snap-in plate that hangs on to ONE side would be just as effective.

And the handles molded into the unit make moving it around securely, specially when lifting it up on a higher shelf, a real breeze. Ever dropped a PC? Ever come close and only scraped a couple of knuckles?