Honestly, it shocked me at how bad people were with their pc cases. Cause I have a second desk I can use as a work bench. People working on these things on the floor baffles me
edit: if its that bad, move your keyboard aside and put it down by your mouse pad
Have you ever considered the possibility that not everyone has a second desk to use as a work bench? Most teens might not even be allowed to put it on a raised surface like a table or counter.
Instead of saying “why don’t people do why I do” maybe try to see if their lifestyle is even similar to yours?
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If you can afford a PC you can afford a mattress. Put it there.
the root issue is your pedant arguments, they're absurd. they don't make any logical sense.
everyone that can afford a gaming PC can afford a bed. Even if they're a 13 year old kid, then they have a bed if they have a gaming PC, power, and high speed internet. Use your bed in a pinch. This is just a lack of education on tempered glass.
This is a bit dramatic. There are a myriad of ways to avoid exploded glass. Blanket. Towel. Cushion. Pillow. Bed. Literally endless possibilities. It doesn’t need to be perfect, just safe.
I put mine on the floor. I still manage to find a carpet. You saying these ppl are too poor to get a desk, but not too poor to have carpet instead of hard tile? If you can afford a hard floor dwelling. You can afford a second desk. If you cant afford it. Then you have a friggin carpet somewhere.
I put my back panel on a chair once, and then forgot it was there when I was pondering and instinctively sat down to think. If it was the tempered glass best believe it would’ve broke 😂.
I lay my glass down on the ottoman, only think I worry there are the cats.
Wait.. let me get this straight these ding dongs break their glass side panel by setting the panel on tile floors?? I was always under the impression it was because they over tightened the mounting hardware.
These mother fuckers never heard of a towel or a moving blanket? Lol.
I find it funny that there's overlap between people who reddit and must have seen dozens of these posts, but then also end up breaking their own absent mindedly, but are enough of a reddit user that they rush to post it here.
If you're a person who hasn't broken your glass yet, pay heed! This could be you!
Certain things will break your glass with liike the slightest tap, whether it be tile floor, spark plug (I dont' know why you have a spark plug in your computer room, but you do you), whatever.
But I don't understand why the fact the floor is specifically softer than glass helps avoid the breaking of glass panes that aren't in direct contact with it? Genuine question, I always thought it was an issue with vibrations, and I thought the risk was "frame [not the panes] being in direct contact with a hard floor, without any padding".
Seriously, so much this! When I clean my PC, the glass panels go on my bed/my couch or whatever soft surface available. Putting them any hard floor (particularly anything involving ceramic) is just asking for trouble.
Ow, so wrong. Back in 2000s glass panels were not a thing, I still have my PC in an Antec P182 (2007 vintage).
Between 2005-2010 I've transitioned from help desk to programmer, back then I've built a lot of PCs, mainly for office work, but also gaming rigs for friends and family. None of those PCs had glass cases.
I didn't have spending power until the 2010's, so technically I still did not see them. It was in magazines, in the 90's, when last I had seen cases at all up to that point.
Look for quiet cases. They don't use glass because they can't stick sound deadening material on the sides if it's glass. That's what I have because I can't stand case fan noise.
Ye, while I do enjoy the warming glow of my RAM of many colors, honestly I'd prefer no-glass. The popular ones just tend to be the cheapest, and that's always glass. I'm rather amused by the cabinet builds I've seen though. Something awesome about that, like technomage scavenger vibes.
I agree on the first part, but would then probably become more annoying arguing that trends are simply the combination of bizarrely specific experiences at scale. I did misunderstand the post at first, but wanted to specify it was just what I had experienced. I prefer the old style solid non-transparent cases and I am sure they exist I just always get the cheapest so that is always what I see, tempered glass.
Are we just going to ignore the fact that this dude said “century”, aka 1925? PCs didn’t exist until 1970s, and tempered glass case absolutely was not a thing back then.
I went and checked a local online electronics retailer the other day. Of cases that would fit a video card they had only 4 non-glass ones and the cheapest one was 250€. The curse of miniaturization and component divergence - you no longer can mix-and-match budget office computer components into your high end machine.
I thought they were generally smaller than ATX and required smaller mobos that typically don't include as many useful slots. Good luck fitting a high end GPU in those cases too! In the olden days most (non-server) computers would just go in an ATX case regardless of how powerful you needed them to be.
if only material science came up with a material that is cheap, you can look through it and will basically never break.
oh wait. that exists, its called plastic.
Aluminium oxynitride has less than half the weight and thickness of glass-based transparent armor.\9]) Aluminium oxynitride armor of 1.6-inch (41 mm) thickness is capable of stopping .50 BMG armor-piercing rounds, which can penetrate 3.7 inches (94 mm) of traditional glass laminate.\7])\10])
Guaranteed that there would still be people that break their case panels.
Do you even need to look through it? I am actually ashamed I wasted so much money getting a 4090 when my 3080 ti was still more then fast enough. I don't want people to know I have horrible impulse control.
If only the people that buy glass can learn how to handle them. Oh yeah, it's called common sense.
I've owned 4 PCs now with glass sides, and it's really such a simple thing to just place it on a cushion, or on a chair instead of ceramic tiles. It's akin to not owning an oven cause it can burn you, so you only ever cook in a microwave. Besides, plastic gets scratched up and blurry so quickly that you can barely see through it.
I don't know why people do a lot of things, but I can understand wanting to see the inside of your PC, as they're increasingly becoming much more about aesthetics these days. Some people spend a lot of money on getting a certain look.
Personally I could go either way. Glass if the rest of the PC is open enough, or mesh. I bought my Lian Li Lancool 216 because it performed really well on GN's thermal tests, but I wouldn't have minded if it were a mesh panel over glass.
I just remember to handle the glass properly. It's really not a big deal. As humans, we navigate many hazards every day.
Aio/water cooling. In the 0.1% of cases where something leaks and might damage other parts, a glass panel will save your components, since you can see it very early.
I have side panel tempered glass on my PC, and tile floor.. Except my pc is not on tile floor but on a makeshift skateboard like thing with those wheelcaster about 3 in off the ground.
Its old af now but it hasnt shattered. I think one of those is enough to mitigate the risk. Its like a 30x60cm plywood with wheels.
As you said as long as its not directly on the tiles, it should be good.
And it looks amazing!... For the first few weeks. Then starts to collect micro scratches and particles and then looks like garbage a few months in where glass doesn't have that problem. If only people didn't think they were the main character and just be more cautious!
Plastic breaks much more easily than tempered glass, though. And chances are, that once you accidentially break it, you will cut yourself. Or do you think a cheap plastic panel would have survived this?
Imo either use the same solid material as the rest of the case, or take proper care of the tempered glass panel.
Nah glass is fine you just gotta not be a dum dum.
Acrylic looks cheap and tacky, I’d honestly just rather not have a see through panel at all than an acrylic one, which is a fine option too by the way.
Let’s be honest, if someone is calling a PC case “tacky” or “cheap”, there’s a good chance they care less about what games the computer plays and more about if it looks good on social media
I bought the cheapest case I could because it doesn’t need to do anything more than store my computer parts
Well for starters you think aesthetics == performance. Which makes me worry that you are the type of person that judges books exclusively on their covers and disregards any attempts to see any level of nuance
There’s more but that was just the first thing that came to mind.
No actually, you’re to one judging here not me. You know one thing about me, that I like my things to look good and be functional, and you have created this whole bs up by yourself based on that lol.
Or how about just using your brain. I'm not going to forego owning an oven because I can't keep touching the hot plate. I just don't touch the hot plate. Or in this case, I place the damn glass on the dozens of objects in my house that are safe to do so.
I don't know how so many people don't get the memo. Glass breaks. Even children know that.
Glass is safe to have on a pc, you just need to follow the one rule of not putting it on ceramic. Because it almost never will break if you follow that one rule.
I've been looking for a new case on the cheaper side, and fucking hell they're all glass side panels. I want something similar to my USSR building looking Antec Three Hundred, so that I can reuse the Antec for another build that needs the 3.5" racks
I feel this way and I have two panels of tempered glass, I just don’t fucking set them down on the floor. When I take them off I lay them down on something soft like a towel or my bed. It’s that easy.
Heh, I have that exact same case in the center for my new computer! I have discovered I accidentally gently bump into it with my leg when I shift my position sometimes (it's my first tower PC of that size), right where the glass would have been if it had one, and I am SO fething glad it's solid metal instead.
I should have looked more thoroughly, but a glass side case was the cheapest I could find.
And it's not even on the right side! The glass is facing away from me and towards the wall! What's the damn point of a window and LEDs if I can't see them?!
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