What was your first proper PC case?

Berry Merjinik · 27 May 2022 at 17:47

I still have fond memories of my full tower Chieftec Dragon case in Purple.
I wonder how todays components would have performed inside it these days?

Drizmod · 29 May 2022 at 14:50

My first proper case was an Antec P160 I bought around 2005. It was all for looks as it was terrible for cooling! My i7 was reaching 90 degrees even with an after market cooler

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Grimley · 29 May 2022 at 15:13

Drizmod said:
My first proper case was an Antec P160 I bought around 2005. It was all for looks as it was terrible for cooling! My i7 was reaching 90 degrees even with an after market cooler.

I wouldnt have described it as a 'proper' case TBH. I owned one briefly & hated it. No end of problems. 1st 'proper case' as far as I'm concerned that I owned was a Silverstone TJ08 back in 2006.

Drizmod · 29 May 2022 at 17:38

Grimley said:
I wouldnt have described it as a 'proper' case TBH. I owned one briefly & hated it. No end of problems. 1st 'proper case' as far as I'm concerned that I owned was a Silverstone TJ08 back in 2006.

In 2005 it was a proper case compared to to beige ones I had before this

Bluecube · 29 May 2022 at 18:05

I had an Antec case too that I think was based on the Chieftec Dragon (or vice versa). Can’t remember the model number as it was so long ago but it was made from solid steel and weighed a fricking ton. Brilliant case with rounded edges inside and drive cages neither of which were on any previous cases I’d owned. The only negative was that it only took 80mm fans as 120mm ones were very rare at the time.

EDIT: it was 1080AMG

Grimley · 29 May 2022 at 19:25

Drizmod said:
In 2005 it was a proper case compared to to beige ones I had before this

At least the beige ones that I owned in the mid/late 90's early 00's had more reliable front I/O & switches. They were awful on the Antec.

Lustral · 30 May 2022 at 08:34

Easy one ... SilverStone FT-02 WRI. I have still got it in the garage gathering dust and cobwebs. Also still got a Shuttle XPC Reflexion up in the loft too.

Fluffybob · 30 May 2022 at 13:25

Drizmod said:
My first proper case was an Antec P160 I bought around 2005. It was all for looks as it was terrible for cooling! My i7 was reaching 90 degrees even with an after market cooler

Antec's Best Case Ever - Unboxing The Antec P160W

Antec's Best Case Ever - Unboxing The Antec P160WPIXEL TALK Discord Server: https://discord.gg/wdT4cwVhttps://www.instagram.com/cuttingedgeretro/

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Me too, bloody loved it

throwaway4372 · 30 May 2022 at 13:31

Antec P180
I had two of these, for the Core 2 Duo E6300 build in ~2006, and one for the i7 920 ~2009 (still going as mum's pc in 2022

).

Darujhistan · 30 May 2022 at 14:21

Something by NZXT that was excellent at giving me hot leg and not much else, second one also NZXT, much better. Been on Corsair Obsidian's ever since and never looked back.

Radox-0 · 30 May 2022 at 23:34

First PC build I did was in a NZXT Phantom 820 (outside of tweaks to few OEM Dell machines we brought as a family), I did not really understand what I was doing at the time brought it based on looks online, it was absolutely massive and overkill for my small rig at the time

so replaced with In Win Tou which I use to date. Brother did take Phantom though and used it for about 5 or so years before also downsizing.

koolpc · 31 May 2022 at 00:29

Coolermaster ATC-201 with window. Loved that case. Wish i still had it.

Berry Merjinik · 31 May 2022 at 12:56

throwaway4372 said:
Antec P180
I had two of these, for the Core 2 Duo E6300 build in ~2006, and one for the i7 920 ~2009 (still going as mum's pc in 2022 ).

I remember this case lol, I had it for a while but didn't get on with it. I think this is what replaced my Dragon case tbh. I should have stayed put.

CaptainRAVE · 31 May 2022 at 13:01

The earliest I remember the name of was the cooler master cosmos sport or some such. Ridiculous case, huge filtered side fan, touch on/off/reset, huge inside for pretty much anything you needed to do with it. Weighed an absolute tonne.

dannywaugh1 · 31 May 2022 at 13:56

Mine was a Antec 900 then a Antec P183?

cee-S-dee · 1 Jun 2022 at 11:11

Globalwin 802 to house my new Athlon Thunderbird build from OCUK

MagicBoy · 1 Jun 2022 at 11:26

Juno P6.

Bubo · 1 Jun 2022 at 12:54

Classic beige Chieftec Dragon full tower, modded a fan into the roof, modded the psu mount to flip the psu and modded the hard drives to sit in the space below the moved psu. Still have it the garage. Thinking of renting it out to a couple of Ukrainian refugees. The Dragon that is, not the garage, although could maybe fit a couple more in there too.

noodles002 · 9 Jun 2022 at 22:40

Fractal Design R4 - after numerous pre-built PCs the goal this time was good performance but as quiet as possible.

rare · 10 Jun 2022 at 16:51

I had numerous beige cases for years, my first PC that I owned that wasn’t a family computer was from TIME with an Athlon 700 with a Creative TNT 2 Ultra I bought separately.

My first proper case that I remember was Coolermaster 201 a couple of years after that. Still the greatest case and I don’t intend on selling it ever. Although I don’t use it for my current systems, I do like building in it now and then