All cases seem to suck these days

[Red Squirrel]

It seems every time I build a computer, I notice the cases are getting worse and worse.

Tools required:
- plyers
- screw driver set (yes, a set, not just one)
- dremel
- hammer (well I just used the plyers they're big enough)

1st problem: the rectangular slot where the motherboard back goes, well, I had to change it, but they did not use a standard size, so I had to cut the hole bigger to make the new plate fit. This required a dremel, plyers, then I just banged it up a bit to make sure it fits. Really ackward to use a 35,000 rpm tool in such area so tried to minimize the need for it. thankfully it was only a couple mm too short, but still, they should follow the standards.

2nd problem: Instead of bays where you can screw reletively anywhere, it's just a hole, and there's this plastic braket that goes on which aparently makes it more convinient... but it also causes the drives to stick out about 1cm, making it impossible to close the door

3rd problem: like almost every case now, no front cooling. I don't know what's up with that. Front intake is actually part of the ATX standard but 90% of ATX cases I've worked with don't have front cooling. Sure there's holes to put a fan, but what good is a fan if the front bezell has no venting.


Bah, just a general rant... Cases arn't like they used to be, that's for sure.

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[Death]

Nothing's like it used to be. Manufacturers are making crappier parts in such abundance because more and more people are using computers. The quality isn't there anymore. Take a 486 processor for instance. You can use that thing as a hockey puck for a week, pop it back into your machine and chances are, it'll probably still work. Do that with a pentium 4, you bend a pin and it's fubar. If you want good parts, you gotta pay for it, like corsair ram. Either companies are making parts crappier because they need to supply so many, or they're PO at everyone ripping the software industry that this is their revenge

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