- Jan 29, 2004
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Does anybody make a PC case that doesn't look like a Transformer or a Hot Wheels car or something off "The Fast and the Furious"?
Seriously I'm still using my (non windowed) Cooler Master ATC-110 from like 10 years ago. I was looking to go to something like a Shuttle XPCs if they come out with one in X79 but with PC parts so cheap lately I don't know if I want to restrict myself to two memory slots, one video card, not enough PSU, etc.
USB 3.0 front ports mandatory of course, and will *NOT* be using optical drives or mechanical HDDs ever again. I'll use my laptop to transfer install media to USB 3.0 flash and crack any software that insists I have a CD drive. I do not do mechanical media anymore, period.
Basically only needs 2.5" internal drive bays but I would like to keep the option for a large mainboard (8 memory slots maybe even dual CPU if a X79 SR2 type board is made) and SLI if I get bored. Havent decided yet. Part of me wants so splurge on this latest X79 generation just from the perspective of a technophile, another part of me says I don't even use my PC for games anymore and don't go too crazy (thanks to DRM chasing me to consoles after being exclusively a hard core PC gamer for the last decade or more).
Problem is any case that can fit SLI and large mainboards are going to be 10 feet in every direction and have 100 5.25" bays or be some kind of "gamer" case bristling with 100s of useless plastic knobs and neons and blinking dancing flippy rotating ADHD gimmicks.
If they made a slightly bigger minimalist looking XPC that could fit two GTX580 size cards with enough PSU to run that with an 8 core CPU and also had 6-8 memory slots, I'd be in heaven.
Just want something straight, minimalist, clean, and simple, reasonably compact and anti-bling that doesn't look like a melted down alien UFO or Transformer and doesn't light up the room like Christmas tree, but still has all the modern concepts like 90 deg rotated drive bays, tool-less, modular, SFF, etc.
If Shuttle has a X79 XPC coming around the corner that can fit a full size top end card, enough cooling power for a top of the line non overclocked CPU, and 16-64GB RAM (RAM drive backed by SSD RAID and UPS because screw the data storage and memory gap once and for all) I might just forget about SLI even.
Seriously I'm still using my (non windowed) Cooler Master ATC-110 from like 10 years ago. I was looking to go to something like a Shuttle XPCs if they come out with one in X79 but with PC parts so cheap lately I don't know if I want to restrict myself to two memory slots, one video card, not enough PSU, etc.
USB 3.0 front ports mandatory of course, and will *NOT* be using optical drives or mechanical HDDs ever again. I'll use my laptop to transfer install media to USB 3.0 flash and crack any software that insists I have a CD drive. I do not do mechanical media anymore, period.
Basically only needs 2.5" internal drive bays but I would like to keep the option for a large mainboard (8 memory slots maybe even dual CPU if a X79 SR2 type board is made) and SLI if I get bored. Havent decided yet. Part of me wants so splurge on this latest X79 generation just from the perspective of a technophile, another part of me says I don't even use my PC for games anymore and don't go too crazy (thanks to DRM chasing me to consoles after being exclusively a hard core PC gamer for the last decade or more).
Problem is any case that can fit SLI and large mainboards are going to be 10 feet in every direction and have 100 5.25" bays or be some kind of "gamer" case bristling with 100s of useless plastic knobs and neons and blinking dancing flippy rotating ADHD gimmicks.
If they made a slightly bigger minimalist looking XPC that could fit two GTX580 size cards with enough PSU to run that with an 8 core CPU and also had 6-8 memory slots, I'd be in heaven.
Just want something straight, minimalist, clean, and simple, reasonably compact and anti-bling that doesn't look like a melted down alien UFO or Transformer and doesn't light up the room like Christmas tree, but still has all the modern concepts like 90 deg rotated drive bays, tool-less, modular, SFF, etc.
If Shuttle has a X79 XPC coming around the corner that can fit a full size top end card, enough cooling power for a top of the line non overclocked CPU, and 16-64GB RAM (RAM drive backed by SSD RAID and UPS because screw the data storage and memory gap once and for all) I might just forget about SLI even.
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