I have a love/loath reaction to gamer cases and pretty cases, even from Apple, have always bothered me somehow. There's no accounting for taste. [
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I've torn up and tossed a LOT of curb-kickers and "here, you like to mess with computers, see what you can do with this old thing" donations over the last thirty years or so. I've got one of my 19.5x20x9 inch project boxen stuffed to almost overflowing with old motherboards that had some interesting feature or other. Just trying to nest another board with an impressive heat sink on it is like playing with an interlocking wooden puzzle. It's also a voyage of discovery, from "why did I ever keep this" to "what the hell is this Mac board doing in here" and WT . . .
Just learning that Intel's early ATX spec really had mixed ISA/PCI slot provisions was an interesting tidbit that came my way from research for this thread. It's one easy thing to dismiss something out of hand, but it's another thing entirely games of "what if and why not" with BF-109-G<->FlyingVespa pic analogies. Such nonsense can be entertaining and enlightening at the same time, especially with hazy memory brain teasers thrown into the mix. Again, it's that "taste thing."
I've never had, butalways wanted a Drawbridge Case, but that 7200 thing strikes me as a very elegant piece of sheet metal design. But it's almost totally ruined by the clever but incredibly chintzy little breakaway plastic supports and that pair of retention tabs that just don't quite live up to the promise of the overall concept.
Hell, here in the U.S. toy chests are legally required to have better articulation engineering than that very expensive POS, albeit such legislation is meant to protect the priceless operators . . .
. . . but still. :
] ]'>I've torn up and tossed a LOT of curb-kickers and "here, you like to mess with computers, see what you can do with this old thing" donations over the last thirty years or so. I've got one of my 19.5x20x9 inch project boxen stuffed to almost overflowing with old motherboards that had some interesting feature or other. Just trying to nest another board with an impressive heat sink on it is like playing with an interlocking wooden puzzle. It's also a voyage of discovery, from "why did I ever keep this" to "what the hell is this Mac board doing in here" and WT . . .
Just learning that Intel's early ATX spec really had mixed ISA/PCI slot provisions was an interesting tidbit that came my way from research for this thread. It's one easy thing to dismiss something out of hand, but it's another thing entirely games of "what if and why not" with BF-109-G<->FlyingVespa pic analogies. Such nonsense can be entertaining and enlightening at the same time, especially with hazy memory brain teasers thrown into the mix. Again, it's that "taste thing."
You know how they say "seeing is believing," the way my noggin works "seeing is understanding." Verbal/.TXTual comments about something being "way better than the 8500" don't mean much to me. Besides, I've yet to see just about any case for just about any thing that's not way better than that turd. I've kept a bard 9500 chassis around just to laugh at it when I shove the 9600 PSU most of the way into it just to hear the PEx board's startup chimes every now and then. Now that the Plastic PEx drawer is set up, I wonder if I should recycle that thing. It's almost sad when even a plastic drawer from a rolling plastic chest of such for "organizing clutter" a/o closet storage bought at Tarjet is a better, if funkier, case design than that once top of the line 9500 chassis.
I've never had, butalways wanted a Drawbridge Case, but that 7200 thing strikes me as a very elegant piece of sheet metal design. But it's almost totally ruined by the clever but incredibly chintzy little breakaway plastic supports and that pair of retention tabs that just don't quite live up to the promise of the overall concept.
Hell, here in the U.S. toy chests are legally required to have better articulation engineering than that very expensive POS, albeit such legislation is meant to protect the priceless operators . . .
. . . but still. :
You know, the ones with midriff bulge and handles sticking out every which way.