Cases you hate?

[Radium_Angel]

It could be for a variety of reasons, poor air flow, terrible cable management (and let's not slide back 20 years ago when CM wasn't a thing, that's not fair to the old cases) overkill of a riceboy looks, etc.

 

I'll start. I got a Cooler Master Elite 120 Advanced, and yes, it's for ITX, but the  CM is non-existent and airflow is wretched. For a company named "Cooler Master" I would have expected better...

[glennhl]

I absolutely hate my Meshify C case.  Why?  It's just too perfect and I always feel so inferior to it! 

[AlwaysWong]

Corsair 1000D

 

I can't afford it and expensive

[Radium_Angel]

3 minutes ago, AlwaysWong said:

Corsair 1000D

That's an expensive case...

Had to look about a moment to find a non RGB'd image, as the 8 front-mounted fans all seem to be RGB.

I assume full ATX size?

[Zelenia]

BitFenix Prodigy M MicroATX

 

It's older case but was still sold in my country and it's still popular in matx builds. But because it's old, the technology has advance past it's prime. 

 

I had this case for 8 months and oh boy I'm happy I got rid of it finally. Here are few of the issues I've had with it:

 

• Power button and USB ports on side panel. I had to open the case fairly often and I was always scared of bending these cables. 
• SSD slots are on this same side panel. Best way to install SSD in this case is to use a mount but that mount is terrible to install and it adds extra cables to run around wild in your case.
• Poor cable management because of above.
• Poor airflow because of above and 0 noise absorption. 
• You can have a standard size PSU in this case BUT it will limit the sized of the GPU a lot (max 249mm or 9,80 inches).
• I paid 80€ from it. It felt like made of the cheapest possible plastic out there and just single touch leaves fingerprints. The side panel did bend after I did open the case and thumb screws didn't fit back in. 

Just don't get one in 2020, there is no reason to.

[Algebruh]

Cooler Master H500

 

The front intake fan cut out is laughable. 120mm*360mm cut out for two 200mm fans, and the most of the area is blocked by those giant fan hubs.

 

Besides of CM H500, I hate any case with front fan mounted behind the fan mount. That was one of the reasons why I sold my Meshify C.

Any obstacle that is directly in front of a fan increases noise drastically. Even some of the "silent" cases are designed with this kind of fan mount

[Radium_Angel]

3 hours ago, Zelenia said:

BitFenix Prodigy M MicroATX

 

Had one, I agree, severe cable issues because of airflow.

[HerrKaLeu]

Anything Coolermaster. Not because they were the worst, but because they charged a premium for not being good.

 

They spent 99% of their engineering resources on the name. The name is good, since computer components need cooling. but hen had nothing left for actual quality and design.

[Guest]

The O11 series.

Strictly because I'm just so tired of seeing em.

Even fully custom loops with distro plates bore me to death.

It's like I'm looking at a pre-built.

 

[TVwazhere]

Mastercase H100. 

 

It had so much potential..... squandered. 

 

[Radium_Angel]

9 minutes ago, TVwazhere said:

Mastercase H100

Another vote for CM bad cases...I'm sensing a trend here....

[TVwazhere]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Another vote for CM bad cases...I'm sensing a trend here....

They've had good cases. I love the H500 Series, The SL600M, their TD500 Mesh and NR600 are also competitive. And their NR200 is freaking briliant; finally a sub 20L case in an Ncase M1 style that isnt $200. 

 

Specifically the H100 could have been great but they offered basically no actual GPU ventilation, wasted a crap ton of space and offered no good features other than a 200mm fan (which I am a sucker for)

 

I can name other cases Iahe, but the H100 immediately comes to mind in terms of "Saw it, got excited, then really disappointed in about three minutes"

[miagisan]

On 10/7/2020 at 4:30 PM, glennhl said:

I absolutely hate my Meshify C case.  Why?  It's just too perfect and I always feel so inferior to it! 

I know the feeling!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

A lot of those early cheap gaming cases from Shenzhen that were abundant in the early 2010s. They tried copying so many popular features at the time without understanding what made those features great. Which meant the implementation were less than stellar. Plus most were cheaply constructed which meant the whole case flexed and they came with those breakoff PCIe covers. 

[CommanderAlex]

Any case with a piece of glass right in front of the front intake fans??? 

[Radium_Angel]

1 minute ago, CommanderAlex said:

Any case with a piece of glass right in front of the front intake fans??? 

Heh,

 

I'm running a Phanteks Evolv Shift (not the air version) and airflow is a right problem for this.

[ausham]

Just about anything modern not made by fractal design. To many flashy look at me gimmicks in cases out there today.

[CommanderAlex]

Just now, Radium_Angel said:

Heh,

 

I'm running a Phanteks Evolv Shift (not the air version) and airflow is a right problem for this.

That's just how I feel about new cases on the market nowadays...too much damn tempered glass and slim clearances to allow for airflow, like I don't want my PC to be a PCB statue. I don't really like the new 200mm fan cases out on the market with two huge fans that light up in the middle. Before my current case, it was a tossup with the Corsair Obsidian 750D Airflow.

 

Ordered Dune Pro couple months ago with the Dice Y accessory and am looking forward to transplanting my current rig into it besides the fans. (Got 3x Noctua NF-F12 industrial PPCs and 2x NF-A8 PWM for rear)

[PianoPlayer88Key]

I hate huge cavernous cases that only have included support for like 2 or 4 HDDs, and (depending on the size of the case) don't support SSI EEB or larger motherboards.

 

I don't want a bunch of empty space in my case, nor would I be going through the hassle of setting up a fancy custom water-cooling loop.  If (at least some) laptops and servers can avoid thermal throttling as densely packed as they are, why can't desktop cases do the same and still be densely packed? (Okay, the servers do have room for improvement in the noise department, true.)

 

I want my case, when all components are installed, to be as densely packed as a thin-and-light notebook, tablet, phone or watch.

(Imagine you put a  "smaller" container (but still large enough for your components) inside a larger container.  Fill the smaller container to the brim with, for example, mineral oil.  Carefully (!) lower your components into the oil.  Measure how much mineral oil spills out - that's the volume the case should be.)

 

I'd like to see some standard tower / cube case designs that support HDD (and/or SSD) configurations at least as dense as these.

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So what tower (non-rack) cases would be able to mount every single HDD that you could connect, if you populated every PCIe slot on this...

with these?

 

Or, if it would result in more drives, what about using PCIe lane bifurcation to hook up... (let's see, the Rocket 750 is, I think PCIe 2.0 x8; the ASRock ROMED8-2T has 7 PCIe 4.0 x16 slots; P4x16 = 8x P2x8; times 7 slots is...) 56 of those HBAs to one of these?

 

I don't think it (the many-drives case) should cost thousands of dollars. (Of course, "drives and other components not included, case only".)  For example I could see buying like 2 or 3 of that case for the cost of a Corsair 1000D, Thermaltake W200 / Level 20 / Tower 900, Lian-Li PC-08X, or Be Quiet Dark Base Pro 900, to name a few. (Basically I'd be looking in the $120-180 range or so for a case like that if I was shopping, or a fraction of that if I was buying used/refurb.)

 

I've done a couple mockups a while ago...

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[Radium_Angel]

12 hours ago, PianoPlayer88Key said:

I don't think it (the many-drives case) should cost thousands of dollars.

You're not paying for the case, you're paying for the R&D that went into designing the case.

Plus it's a niche product aimed at businesses, where big bucks spent are the expected norm.

[Tristerin]

That CM stopped producing the HAF lineup.