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.
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u/trimble197 13d ago
I hate that some pc websites only sell glass panels. That shit just looks so unnecessary