Dull ATX Case designs

PaulW

PaulW

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Hi All,

i have recently been looking at ATX and ITX cases and i am really finding it hard to find a good clean and minimal ATX case design. The closest i have come to actually wanting one is the NZXT H510 but this as the reviews suggest has a terrible thermal design, so that is out unless i Mod it.

ITX cases seem to be a lot better design wise, they are clean, minimal and have things a lot better thought out.

so what is going on here? maybe i am just too fussy or maybe there are more cleaner simpler ones that i just a haven't seen yet. although i have looked at many many cases now and none seem to inspire.

if anyone has some ATX cases that they really I think should take a look at plz let me know.

Thanks

P
 
Regrettably no one really makes an ATX case like the classic aluminium cases of the early to mid 2000’s. They were clean and amazingly well made. Some of fractals efforts are clean and simple, if that’s the look you are going for (R6/R7).
 
just something that doesn't look like a cheese grater, A Transformer or something from the Blackpool illumination . The fractal R6/R7 are better but the Torrent and it's front grill is makes me want to bulk tbh. i know its for cooling but just use a flat mesh
i did look at the Meshify but again the pointless 3D grill is an eyesore.
 
New Lian-li 011 Air Mini is due out in the next week or two, takes a full size Psu and a Atx motherboard. This case will be my next build.

Hopefully Oc, will have them in for sale.

LINKAGE
 
PaulW said:
although i have looked at many many cases now and none seem to inspire.
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That's because they all copy same gamer garbage fads and defunctionalities making that numerically big choise as meaningfull as number of election candidates in Soviet Union.

Would suggest taking look at Fractal Design Define R5, which was the peak of evolution what made Define R that Define R.
Newer models started devolving by raping that for the sake of fashion.

If full tower isn't too big, Corsair Obsidian 750D would be another not entirely horrible.
 
rare said:
Regrettably no one really makes an ATX case like the classic aluminium cases of the early to mid 2000’s.
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Even Lian Li did full 180 degree face heel turn and is all gamer stuff and fads now.
Would have serious problems replacing my PC-A71B now.


david25 said:
I've been looking at ebay for classic Li Lian cases
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In case of building gaming/high end PC would be just best to skip those early models with PSU above mobo.
Those designs just aren't good for significant amount of heat output.
 
EsaT said:
In case of building gaming/high end PC would be just best to skip those early models with PSU above mobo.
Those designs just aren't good for significant amount of heat output.
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Sure, but they are OK with GTX1050 type cards and 65W CPUs

Why can't they make a clean aluminum box (minus the visible drive bays) the PSU at the bottom?

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mrbazmondo said:
I've got an empty one of those that's been sat under my desk for 5 years :D
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I've just retired my PC-A71b (bought in 2008) in favour of a Seasonic Q704. It was just too big and fancied a window for a change.

I like the Seasonic, quite understated and no RGB. It's not much smaller than the A71 but, I think the Window makes it less of a Monolith.
 
mrbazmondo said:
I've got an empty one of those that's been sat under my desk for 5 years :D
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If you want/have metal work machines available I can give some hints for improving it.
For example there decent room for improving airflow without changing look in any way.

Though "window" for some improvements passed years ago when availability of fitting accessories/parts ended:
I changed top panel to one from newer variation of that "overall theme" for bigger top IO panel, which I then updated to one with four USB3s.
 
EsaT said:
If you want/have metal work machines available I can give some hints for improving it.
For example there decent room for improving airflow without changing look in any way.

Though "window" for some improvements passed years ago when availability of fitting accessories/parts ended:
I changed top panel to one from newer variation of that "overall theme" for bigger top IO panel, which I then updated to one with four USB3s.
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Is it still possible to buy the replacement top panel for it?
I found it annoying that mine didn't have drive rails, but the ones that came out a year or so later did.
 
mrbazmondo said:
Is it still possible to buy the replacement top panel for it?
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Haven't seen those in years.

Decade ago Lian Li had lots of accessories and site also included pages for old discontinued product as "Historic models" list.
But since their face heel turn they've completely removed all that data. (just like Stalin removed persons from photos)

It was that PC-A71F T-LF27B-1 top cover.
https://web.archive.org/web/2012111...uct04.php?cl_index=2&sc_index=45&ss_index=150
Bough it actually little over 10 years ago.
(order visible in my account to OcUK's "parent" company)

It between variation of same case style, PC-A7110, which had those hot swap backplanes and plastic and no doubt acoustically bad HDD rails, with also increased airflow impedance over older HDD cage.


Four USB3 port IO module was PW-IS40AV85AI0
Though having 5.25" bays gives anyway plenty of upgradability for new ports.
 
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