Antec C5 mirrored?

[Howling]

Sooooo.... case shopping; I'm liking the Antec C5 - it ticks just about every box..... Except my PC sits on my left (and no, moving it to my right isn't an option) -- which means the window is entirely on the wrong side. Any recommendations? (I tried asking co-pilot but it was about as useful as a box of .... something not very useful.)

 

[mickyflinn]

Take a look at thermaltake the tower series

Inverted cases

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[Littlenose]

I've often wondered if they did "handed" cases.
It would seem logical that it can be done, even if it's not optimal for cooling, I'm sure there's a market for them.

edit - I was ninja'd and proven that I know nothing all in one shot

 

[Ace Modder]

I find most people put a right sided case on the left side at a 90 degree angle on the desk, so the front of the case is the right side and the rear of the case is the left side. Hope that makes sense.
Inverted cases, ie with glass opposite side to the normal can bring a different style of cooling, especially with GPUs that have pass through designs, as then the air is being forced down instead of up, which makes it not natural for physics with mavity and such. How much of a factor? Not sure, I have never really tested them myself.

 

[Howling]

I find most people put a right sided case on the left side at a 90 degree angle on the desk, so the front of the case is the right side and the rear of the case is the left side. Hope that makes sense.
Inverted cases, ie with glass opposite side to the normal can bring a different style of cooling, especially with GPUs that have pass through designs, as then the air is being forced down instead of up, which makes it not natural for physics with mavity and such. How much of a factor? Not sure, I have never really tested them myself.

Yep, I didn't even click that moving the motherboard side would flip the components until Mickey's post on inverted cases ... it just didn't even occur to me xD

Ended up going with the Antec C5 as I, like you, didn't really know what kind of effect reversing the direction of airflow would really do (and it's the case I wanted in the first place)... Did a whole reshuffle of the room to accommodate it, lol. See new 9800X3D build (and my old 3080 ) ::

 

[Ace Modder]

Nice, lovely build you have there