Thoughts on Anidees Ai-Crystal

Tanner_hovda · September 11, 2016

Hello people of the Internet, what is your thoughts on the Anidees Ai-Crystal? It currelently goes for 140$ on Amazon. I personally think it's a great case. Anidees Ai-Crystal

suchamoneypit · September 12, 2016

personally I like the Enthoo pro TG a lot more, and I think its only $160.

Katsunaka · September 12, 2016

I don't care for this whole tempered glass case panel movement.

Personally, I carry my PC too much to even want to look at something like that. They're beautiful though. For me to even want to use one, I'd have to go full custom loop, measure and buy the EXACT length of each cable run I need, then just go full OCD cable managing, making sure everything is perfect. No dust, no finger prints, nothing out of place. And for all that, I consider it not enjoyable anymore.

PC's are already enough work. I'm content with a regular case that has something unique about it like that case Luke reviewed that could be flipped around at the end users will. (I think it was made by Be Quiet)

ARikozuM · September 12, 2016

I love the look but I would love it more if the front fans could have their screws hidden. I wouldn't add LED fans to the front either and would prefer to have LED strips hidden along the side. I like the fact that the USB's are on top as they won't get caught by something falling.

My last con would be lack of 5.25" bays (which is fine for the aesthetics) since I prefer hot-swap bays.

This is a case that I would only buy for custom water-cooling.

ARikozuM · September 12, 2016

Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Out of curiosity, why do you prefer hot-swap bays?

I'm a doctor and having drives that I can back-up and transport from home to the hospital's server or to the van is easier than having to rely on USB.

The other reason would be aesthetics if it's possible in the case at hand like the Fractals that have a door the hides the hot-swaps and allows the drive cage fans to work uninhibited.

Tanner_hovda · September 12, 2016

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

I love the look but I would love it more if the front fans could have their screws hidden. I wouldn't add LED fans to the front either and would prefer to have LED strips hidden along the side. I like the fact that the USB's are on top as they won't get caught by something falling.

My last con would be lack of 5.25" bays (which is fine for the aesthetics) since I prefer hot-swap bays.

This is a case that I would only buy for custom water-cooling.

I'm going to build a custom loop soon it it