The BEST Airflow Case Ever Is From 2010?
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- I spent way too much money on an Antec LanBoy from 2010. Why? Because it may be the best airflow case ever.
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Paul here. Thanks for the shoutout for the twins! Thank you to everyone here in the community for your kind words as well! Enjoy the case and treat it well!
Congratulations, wishing the best for you and your family.
@@kevlarandchrome Thanks so much!
G'day Paul,
So we know what you were doing During Lockdown last year🤭,
All the best & lots of love for your family 👩👨👶👶🥳
Ayyy! Congrats again on the twins. 😁 Thanks for looking after this case so well. It's a really great case.
@@shaneeslick insert joke about Dawid's lots of screwing comment, and Paul :P
this needs to be set on tracks, a few CAT stickers and a shovel in front and you got yourself a themed mod
Nah Cyberpunk theme would rock
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You’re comment has nothing to do with the video content and seems irrelevant. I have a strong doubt that you have any understanding of Christian values and firmly reject your dogmatic take on religion.
@@psibug565 no need for a question mark... he or she IS a nutter & troll.
But on the OP... HEY, still have a rugged CAT phone that will go nice with that 😁
No!
Love the industrial styling of that case, and credit to the previous owner for really looking after it, it's in great condition.
Its missing its screw-box at the bottom of the front though, edit: nevermind previous owner had just taken it off :/
Yeah! It was in much better condition than I was expecting it.
Yes, I'm digging the style of this case. It looks very sturdy too.
Here in Australia while looking for parts on Ebay or other sites I have seen so many newer cases that are just Trashed & the sellers still wanting 75% or more of $$$RRP/MSRP,
I have PCs that I use with cases over 10yrs old & other than some minor swirl blemishes look as good as new,
I don't understand how people Destroy their PC Cases when they just sit on the desk 😧
Manny Calavera pic a man of culture i see
“Liquid cooler buttholes.” It’s stuff like this that keeps me coming back.
Right! I totally know lol
Hey, I have two buttholes too.
Not ME, but my old (non-red) Aerocool PGS-RS9. :)
His humour just gets better video after video. :D
Plot twist: This is a teaser for the gamers nexus case
@nunya not with the airflow though. He is literally the most thorough reviewer there is tho so any case with no issue is the best case of all time
"This case has so much airflow it is no longer a case"
A perfect case for super airflow @gamersnexus
I hope GN does something less challenging than a solid frame design. They do not reflect the skill set for such design, nor seem to be putting the effort to pull something like that off. It is a ton of work. Then again, people are impressed with this Antec one, despite all its glaring design issues.
@@FrodeBergetonNilsen yeah ofc I was just joking about the airflow. It is difficult to make a case which is super unique which will sell at a reasonable price and they would need the manufacturer (which I'd assume would be Lian-Li) to be ok with making it for them. I don't expect anything near this from them, would be cool though
I miss the removable motherboard trays, it allowed you to use it as a test bench.
thats what the motherboard box is for silly!
That's true, I can easily be repurposed into a test bed.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff you can easily be repurposed into a test bed, huh? Thats uhmmm.... interesting.... wonder how that would work. XD lol.
@@rick5078 rofl
@@DawidDoesTechStuff hot
I really like that you went for a fitting desktop background 😂
The proof is in the details! 😄👍
It needs to match the PC. 😁
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Did that Mammoth Dump on your Monitor come out of the Case ButtHole??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man, this brings back memories. Anyone remember when Antec was one of the biggest and best players in the PC case realms?
I have some of their cases in the garage from about 10 or more years ago I think. Man, I remember me and everyone had their cases. What happened to them? Haven’t really looked at pc case manufacturers.
I still use my Antec Skeleton case.
10 years isn't old.
I'm still using a 12 year old 1st gen i7 as my gaming rig.
@@sahhull I wish I could harness a fraction of your frugality lool
@@chadking8767 It's really not that hard especially if you reuse things that you can. Like you can pretty much still game on a 3770 or even 2500k overclocked with a GTX 970 or RX 570 or something perfectly fine even at 1080p. I was having to turn all kinds of shit down back in 2017 at 768p because I was still using a 1gb HD 7000 series Radeon and an i5 3350p. Amausingly, a 3770k and a GTX 980 was really all I needed to do with that PC and still game. I simply chose not to, because I'm a fidelity snob who's overcompensating for the suffering of XCOM2 running like shit at 768p and so I'm at 1440p now. But even then, mostly what's different between then and now is really only refresh rates and resolution, not actual game mechanics or graphical improvements. Dead Space 2 literally still looks like some 2022 game trying to sell itself on raytracing or some shit. Basically everything stagnated after about 2010, 2012, so if you don't upgrade your monitor, odds are you can still use a really old/low end graphics card and be fine unless the game is a complete unoptimized mess like Crysis or Cyberpunk or something.
>but it's not just optimizations!
Go look at Alien: Isolation and tell me that. 2014 game that straight on looks better than tons of modern games, even including the models. It outright looks better with more detail to the skin of their face than triple A games. Division 2 is a very pretty game and its models could be from 2012 and I likely wouldn't notice the difference. It's sad. Most of the gaming conventions and even the popular franchises all started in the 90s until they were sodomized horribly by Bethesda or someone, because it's an industry ran by the corpos, the lawyers, the marketing people, the suits wanting dividends, and not the early non-businesstwats who made up the gaming industry, who successfully deflected blame for their terrible practices on "wokeness" when most wokeness doesn't even exist in gaming and the few times it does was specifically forced in there by the business types themselves as a marketing decision to "sell more units." Meanwhile the same shitheads who've been ruining gaming since the late 80s in those corporations are the same ones that've been aggressively moving to phoneshit, after they drained every last drop of blood they could squeeze out of paid in game microtransactions on full priced titles and consolization. Basically every time I think about gaming or tech and money I get asshurt all over again because I remember who's to blame and keeps getting away with it and making things worse, because art is ruled by Capital, by MBA major types.
The butthurt grows the longer your memory as you can remember how much worse it's gotten over time, until you just start refusing to give them your money. Like I won't give Valve my money if I can help it, I will never pay for a title from EA or Activision. So even if you're not frugal, you can still be rightfully butthurt when you remember your phone's battery doesn't come out (and tracks you as a GPS/audio/webtraffic bug anyway), your laptop's RAM, SSD, GPU, and battery are all soldered on, and the proprietary motherboards don't even have the fucking right connectors so you can't reuse anything from Dell anyway thus negating any reason to purchase something from Dell (especially not the high end shit where basically "Alienware" is a plastic skin of Alienware's corpse that an ancient metal Dell chassis wears around to frighten oldfag gamers with, since it's got a 120mm AIO for a 12900k and performs worse than a 12700k anyway) end up refusing to pay for or use anything from Apple ever, feel like nVidia is straight up scamming and lying to you without the performance to deliver, see how shitty a lot of surviving companies are now that EA didn't murder yet like Eidos, and basically just stop being willing to pay for anything new sheerly on principle of hating the companies. So if you can't be frugal, remember what they took from you and be butthurt.
The seller was a fan of the channel! That's so cool
a FAN of the channel!
I was expecting the seller to comment under this video and get pinned
@@notyourbusiness1352 the day is young!! Maybe he’ll still comment :)
@@notyourbusiness1352 I came here looking for it. Maybe they haven't seen it yet. 😁
@@DawidDoesTechStuff He just commented about 3 minutes ago.
that lack of unicorn poop rgb is so satisfying
The lack of RGB makes it so much easier to build. Way fewer cables.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Some Noctua Chromax or be quiet! Fans would be Awesome in this case, Stealthy & Super quiet even under load
We have to find Paul in comments! Congrats for the twin Paul ❤️
I came here looking for Paul's comment. 😁
His UA-cam name is 'Wong This Way'
@@DawidDoesTechStuff we found Paul finally 😜
Don't worry Dawid, you're on my watchlist for sure
Do you work for Canadian government? 😅
This is amusing, yet also extremely sinister at the same time.
"Your new towels look really nice"
One never forgets their first case. Yes I'm talking about you Chieftec Dragon DX-01... :)
Thermaltake Tsunami Dream was mine from 2004 thing was a thermal nightmare but still used for 5 years
Thermaltake Soprano was mine. It came with a key so you knew it was boss! LOL
Aww yess the Chiefy was my first proper case soo good. Still got one upstairs in the loft just such beef build quality. Me and my mate had the massive Scorpio Full towers and we watercooled them it was a 2man job taking it to Lan parties lol
Saw this after I posted, SAME! Bloody heavy mind eh!
Coolermaster Stacker 832 SE was my first case. Still regret selling it after all those years
If they released something like this today, I'd buy it honestly.
Yes my case better have mad air flowwww 🥶
I like how it looks and would also buy one. I built my rig in a THOR V2 case. It has good airflow and one of the few that had the 6 front bays I needed.
Just please, if you do it, don't ruin this monster with rgb fans everywhere, but I understand you mate, I would buy it too if I would be able to leave my C.M. 690 III. But I can't betray it, I love my case too much, even if there is no hardware inside. Actually working on it to improve airflow and let it shine again. This kind of case, like that Antec or mine, are rare gems nowdays. There is the corsair obsidian 750d that give me some retro' vibes and seem solid. MMM maybe I'm being too much nostalgic.
@@andreabriganti5113 Only yellow LEDs could fit into this case in my opinion.
This case does have a lot of look but in terms of air flow it's a chain link fence around a test bench. Imagination time. If you want to cool a room what would work better, closing the door and using a window-mounted air conditioner, or setting that AC unit on the floor in the middle of the room? In the window, right? Cool air in, hot air out. It's all about exchanging hot air with cold air. This case moves a lot of air around in a chaotic way. It's basically the design of a space heater. There's a practical reason why most cases aren't just perforated metal boxes. I wonder if he used another case with good airflow but a dedicated intake and outtake as a control if the results would've been different.
I actually really like the rugged look of that case
Honestly a few tweaks and modern revisions and that design would sell its pants off. Its got an appealing modular look, a little glass to dampen the noise and leaving that right side as mesh for 360 rad mounts would make it fresh for the modern day.
Dust filters.
the design kinda reminds me of the thermaltake level 10 GT cases that are pretty soundproof while also having a bunch of airflow
oh wow I didn't even realize this was new I just clicked it cause I hadnt watched it yet
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Another case that has aged really well is the Cooler Master HAF Box - I just got one super cheap and it was so far ahead of its time that it's better than 3 other cases I have
I still remember when Antec made good stuff. My NAS is still powered by an Antec 750W PSU from 13 years ago. Those things were incredible.
Also, by the time this case was released, my system was housed in a CM Storm Sniper by Cooler Master. Excellent case as well.
There's a few Cougar cases that are very open to the air, and look insane, very AliExpress style.
nice..
I've seen a bunch of great looking ones. Maybe I should do a video on one soon. 😁
@@DawidDoesTechStuff awesome. 😎
I think the airflow case to beat is the Silverstone FT03 from 2011…
Since hot air rises, the vertical mounting doesn’t allow any hot air to be stuck anywhere inside the casing. It has a pair of 120mm fans to push air from bottom to top. And the 120mm exhaust fan is situated right above the cpu to move any hot air out.
Just imagine what would happen if I tried to build in this thing.
Hey! Haha!! Nah, I'm sure you would have nailed it. 👍
The grounding instructions would have helped
i dont know how you build
@@nexus.0.0 pretty sure it's the verge guy
It made me smile to see you finally come face to face with your impact on people. The channel is consistently growing and you must acknowledge how much we all love you!
I love how you implied it was poorly shipped then ended up reading a nice letter haha, love this guy, genuinely nice guy and is actually funny!
That case needs a Cyberpunk theme for sure, damn now I'm gonna have to take out a couple mortgages to get one for myself.
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same thought
CyberBug is more like it.
@@CougarCat21 I haven't had any of the crazy issues people have had with it and I play it on PS4 which some say is supposedly worse.
@@unsettled_5 does he give free sloppys?
I've still got a few of my old early 2000's cases back in the attic at my mom's place. I've always preferred Lian Li cases, but yeah I'd smack myself for some of the design decisions I made 15 years ago.
Haha we all regret some designs decisions we made 15 years ago 🤣
I still use my old Antec 900 case from 2007, 4 120mm case fans and one 200mm. Great air flow. I cut a window a/c filter(very thin plastic kind) to fit the front to keep the dust out where 2 of the 120mm intake air. Cut another small piece for the side 120mm fan that blows over the GPU. The GPU fans don't even come on until the GPU is really pushed because of it. The top 200mm fan exhaust air out the top and another 120mm in the back in line with the CPU cooler exhaust out the back. My power supply also has a 120mm fan that exhaust out the back as well. I just cleaned it after my last build from 3 years ago and there was hardly any dust in there, it gets used 4-6 hours daily. After all these years I only had to replace one fan. So far I've built 4 systems in it over the years. I think if I build another system in it I'll replace all the fans since the rest are so old. If you can't tell it's my favorite case and I've gotten my money's worth out of it!
I had one that I used for a while. Great airflow and really didn't mind the fan noise. Mainly due to the furnace and AC making more noise than my fans.
LOVED the fact the hard drives had some shock protection, in the case they were suspended by rubber bungee cables with clips.
LOVED the totally modular case. If I ever had lighting for the case I'd simply flip the board from one side to the other.
LOVED the fact I could take the shop vac, go into blower mode and blow dust out of the whole thing.
Only con I had about the case was while it was on the floor at LAN parties one knocked over drink and game over.
Wish I still had the case. Had it in storage in my basement when it was accidentally taken by a junk removal company when I wasn't home.
Never gonna miss a dawid video :)
same
@@googleaccount3567ah shit here we go again
That case in a nutshell
Its a Case but transparent and filled with holes
it seems like an ikea pc case to me lmao
This comment sound more sexual that it should... and I love it.
I still have mine. Blue one. Never added fans. Just kept the 5 that came with it. I believe they all have blue leds in them. Never had an issue with dust. Used it from 2011 or so until 2013 and then shelved it. Been sitting in a box in my closet with same hardware I installed in it. The hard drive cables that suspend them rotted away. Case was much bigger than I thought it would be. Fans were loud. The 2 on the front came with knobs so you can control the speed.
I actually owned this case (but with blue accents instead of yellow), and gave it away to my friend in a charity build after his old PC was stolen. It's a really great case- very modular, rugged, and configurable. As Dawid pointed out though, it gets dirty really fast!
It also has the worst 3.5" drive mounting system ever made, where the drives are supported on floating rubber tube bungies, which crack and fall apart after 5 years. There are some after-market solid brackets that fixes this issue, though. I definitely recommend the Antec LANboy Air- it's durability and conveniences like the fold-down carrying handles make it a winner.
I've only had 2 of the tubes dry rot on me in 7 years of constant use.
Review an Antec 900/1200 case. That was my dream case!
dawid: i found a case with airflow
Its from 2010
It's nice to see old cages getting love. My server and desktop PCs still use a decade old lian-li case. It may not have all the new fancy features, but it has the things I want like drive bays for bluray drives. It even has USB 3 though with drive bay adapters it doesn't matter.
When you mentioned removable motherboard trays being common back in this case’s era I had flashbacks to old 3DGameman reviews. “And the motherboard tray is removable”.
I remember when this case came out. I loved the look of it, but never ended up buying one. I’d completely forgotten about it until I saw the video and it brought a big smile to my face. I love seeing awesome stuff from the past (recent or far) get featured on modern tech channels.
Antec Cases from 2008-2012 are so damn classic. I have a couple in the garage lmao
I do have to say, that case is bloody awesome! I'd love one and i'm sure my RX 5700 would also love to be placed in one :)
Wait you bought the 5700 and not the XT version unironically....
@@goblinboy509 Well friend, i do have the XT version, I have the Anniversary Edition actually, that's why i mentioned it would love to be placed in that case, that card get's friggin' hot! As all RX 5700, XT or non-XT, with stock cooling...
@@PipereaRR Yeah that's why when I got my Rx 5600xt I went with the XFX thicc II because these cards are some toasty bois
I was going to buy a 6800xt or 6900xt whichever one was quieter honestly but these god damn scalpers
@@goblinboy509 Yeah, even if it has a stock cooling, i'm glad i managed to get the card a couple of months before the prices started going up. The RX 6800 and 6900 are awesome, maybe next year we can finally get those at normal prices🤞...
I bought a Corsair 800D for playing around with water cooling 7 years ago and it is still my main rig...scratched plexiglass and all. I love the extra space and it looks like the monolith from 2001! Love the channel...keep up the fun builds!
I almost bought this back in the day because this was something different in a positive way. Just needs some DIY filters for all the mesh holes.
Let's keep in mind that these fantastic results are made with only 2 intake fans but having none for the exhaust. Which show its hardcore potential!
It really has crazy amounts of Airflow.
I would love to see a video on the Coolermaster HAF X which I used in one of my earlier computer builds (2011). Great case for its time. Like a damn wind tunnel! I have it in pretty much flawless condition in original box at my house!
Mine is also chilling in its box in the basement. Would love to use it again, but the bastard is 2" to tall to fit under my current desk. 😭
I run my current system in a HAF 922. Best cooling ever...
I never thought I would see a LanBoy ever again, jeez it brings back so many memories. I actually remember when it was released:) Great vdieo mate and thanks for the trip down memory lane.
This case cost around 200 USD in 2011. I was building a pc and Newegg just happened to have the LanBoy Air in red-black on a one-day sale for 50% off the very day that I was ordering my components. It was worth the sale price. Thermals were excellent and it was one of only a few cases wide enough to accomodate a Thermaltake Frio, which was a very large air cooler (this also required flipping around the rear intake fan so it functioned as an exhaust). The plastic did feel a bit flimsy. And you're definitely right about dust being an issue with this case. I had to clean it out with an air compressor regularly.
Dawid, the box of screws and extra actually can be screwed into the front panel. Your case has room at the bottom. (I have had four of these case wonderful cases and sadly only have one left holding a 3 card mining rig now...)
Cooler Master HAF, now THAT was a helluva case!
Still using an original haf 932. Great case.
Amen brother!!!! That used to be the best of the best. Still have mine in storage.
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I have been using the CM Centurion 590 for a few months. I think the design holds up very well considering it is 13 years old.
And since you can mount almost anything in 5.25" bays, I won't side-grade to a modern case. The only negative thing about it is the lack of a PSU dust filter, and plastic clips. Plastic clips die over time.
(when I bought it it had 1 and a half clip holding the front panel on... still, nothing HDF, m4 bolts, m8 or m10 bolts and corresponding thread-taps and a lot of time can't fix)
I’m really happy with my case that has dust filters
Fair game
The funny part of a case is what it doesn't have, so you can add it and modify as you like more. It take time and patience but it's worth, for me at least.
@@andreabriganti5113 everyone’s different
@@tamertamertamer4874 Yeah that's for sure. No fun if we were all the same, after all.
@@andreabriganti8621 per example I didn’t put a lot of care into building my pc but I like at least making custom textures for each games I play a lot so I guess I catch up there ?
The whole HAF series holds up pretty decently. Specifically the haf 922
I'm still using a cooler master haf 932. Unpainted interior, firewire port on front io and no usb 3. But what a good case with great air flow.
My favourite case of all time is the ThermalTake Mozart TX. That's a real beauty and so different from everything else on the market today. Would love to see you do a build in one of those.
I have this case and use it for my son's gaming PC now. I loved it then and still love it. One of the best cases I've built in.
The global GPU shortage has separated the weak channels from the creative ones.
Looks like a Dewalt Pc case haha, didn't know they were moving from tools to PC hardware
Bonus facts: the tiny plastic case of hardware (screws, etc.) actually fits into the front of the car at the bottom where that big gap is under the fan. You can use the box to store a screwdriver and extra hardware if you need to work on your computer at a Lan, hence the name lanboy. Also the motherboard tray can be removed and mounted to the opposite side of the case so that you can still see your hardware if you have your computer no matter what side of your desk its on. If airflow is a concern this case can also hold up to 18 120mm fans as well!
Saw the thumbnail and knew it right away cause I stared at this case online as a teen imagining all the LAN parties I would bring it to.
a perfect Cyberpunk theme PC
Why does a case need a theme?
It's just a box to build a pc in
The most timeless case I can think of is the Antec Skeleton.
Still got and use my Antec Skeleton. My other is a huge beige ATX full tower I bought around 1995.
Ran across this video today, because I'm building a new rig soon, and looking into a new case. Reason being. I have run this exact case (mine has the blue accents, not the yellow ones) since it came out back '09-'10. You're not wrong about dust, have to take it out and clean it every once in a while, but it's always had super cool running temps and the modularity was one of the things I've always loved about it. But, it is just time to upgrade, I will never get rid of this old case though, it's been amazing.
Check out the monster that is the Rosewill Gaming Thor V2-W. That case candle handle so much! Its also a face only a mother could love.
I love the montage soundtracks! 😂 💙
How about the Chieftec Dragon Dawid? Absolute bulletproof beast of a case, solid 5mm steel, weighed 15KG+ with a system inside it!
My CM Haf X comes in 14,4kg WITHOUT system inside.
my s340 is over 10kg with parts inside
Can't tell you how much I love stuff like this. Retro tech, peripherals, and aesthetics with High-end modern performance.
I still wish I had my Antec Fusion 430 from 2007. It was totally designed for HTPC use, and since then, I've never gone back to tower PC's. Its unique features were a giant volume nob and a front VFD display. It fit a full ATX PSU, yet was still surprisingly compact. Probably still my favourite case.
I have to say, dawid has one of the best intro roll, love watching it! never skip it
This case looks like it was made for PCMR. Imagine the fanfare from every techtuber if Antec made a 2021 version of this case.
"fan"fare
When you said "liquid cooling buttholes", and proceeded to shove your finger into one, I laughed so hard I could barely breath!
HAF932
It has the industrial chic but is a lot more usable long-term. You don't need five DVD drives anymore, but you could just stick fans in there.
Sidenote, I had a little Rosewill tower back in 2006 that had a nice purple plastic toolbox that just sat in one of the drive bays, so you always had a place for screws and PCI slot covers, etc.
The real question: what is he blurring out?!
his exploded rectum from picking it up (:
Your pointless existence
Steve from Gamers Nexus might be interested in getting it for a review xd
I have the exact same case and bought it in 2009. I been using it for every single build ever since. The only things I recommend is to get some polyurethane foam filters and cut them to fit over the fans. I used sticky velcro tabs and covered all openings including the top of the case .. That way you get far less dust and you can take them off and clean them. Also the rubber that holds the HDDs will disintegrate over the years. I just replaced it with zip ties.
These old cases need to come back. Like the Cooler Master HAF full tower, my dad has one and when I rebuilt his PC, it was amazingly easy to work on. And I miss good looks and a side intake fan.
Removable motherboard trays also usually allowed you to fit the board in "Reverse ATX". My old AZZA Genesis 9000 chassis had this. Keeping the GPU on the top near the top vents was actually a great idea.
literally searched your chanel name and then you upload cmon
lol
@@captainpotatonly I fanboy hard
First
Nobody cares
@@FS--ew3se well you do care that's why you responded e
@@HarpreetSinghHP30PODCAST I'm just saying everybody is doing such a big deal about who's first
Corsair Obsidian 650D owner here. For a 10yo case, it looks as good as on day 1. Friends thinks its a new build just because i put a 3600X in it. Telltale signs of its age would be the watercooling buttholes and the small plexi window in the steel side panel - a modern case would have a full size tempered glass panel. I love the hard drive quick swap bay on top, so convenient.
I actually love the final build! the color and shape language gives me "Alien 2 mech" vibes
For me, the Silverstone RV02 is the most timeless case from that time. I had it for a long time. Great dust filters, great air flow (way better than my actual Meshify C). The problem is that that thing was huge, and the fan control switches had a terrible location.
I'm using the cooler master cosmos 1000 from 2007 and I opened up the front so I can have 2 front intake fans, one bottom (intake), one back(exhaust) and two top (exhaust) fans. It's doing really well and it's huge and quit with lots of room. Only problem is that it's heavy but it has really nice handles for carrying it around. I also made a custom glass side panel for it :)
From the title, I was first expecting a Cooler Master HAF X. Those old cases were great: Terrible cable management, but also not sacrificing expandability (hard drives, DVD Drives). Modern cases are made to hold a custom loop watercooling, if you air cool then it's a half-empty box even with a full ATX motherboard.
I have a Master Cooler HAF full size case from around 2009. In January 2021, I rebuilt my computer but used my old case. Entire front is used for air intake (except for DVD drive) with 200 mm and 120 mm fans. Side has 200 mm fan intake blowing onto cpu and motherboard. Top has 200 mm fan and rear has 220 mm fan both for exhaust plus the power supply.
that's an awesome case, and good job to Paul for keeping it in such great shape. Congrats on the twins too if you're in the comments!
I am rocking a 900 original right now.
I just blow out the dust every couple months, but it gets dusty in a week, and still runs very cool.
It's pretty amazing to have all the accessories for something that old! Even though it doesn't have the original box, very impressed with the seller. And love the case. I always enjoyed the cases with handles on them.
I bought this case back in 2010 and I like it so much that I'm still using it today in 2024 and have no plans on retiring it anytime soon.
I've got an Antec Solo 2 case and I'm totally happy with it. Gear inside: Ryzen 3600, Asus Rog MB and Asus RTX 2060S Dual version. Temps are ok (under 70st CPU and GPU). There are 2 Noctuas NF-A12x25 at the front and NF-S12 at the rear. Build quality is very good. This case was my dream once, long time ago, and later, when it wasn't avaible on the market i've found it on Allegro site from private person, new, unused. So i bought it then , few years ago,and don't plan to change.
i have a blue one i sold to a friend, recently re-aquired it in VERY dirty condition. cleaning and planning on a pain job. and building me a new workstation for work. i plan to keep the mesh black, paint the blue bars a matt black. and any "plastic panel" bit is going to be OD green. i also plan to put some hazard stickers/labels on it to give it a more industrial military feel.
Been daily driving this case since 2011. First it had my Phenom II with a Radeon 4890, then my i7 4670-K with a GTX 970 and its still going strong now with a 5900X and a RTX 3080.
I notice that this case, like mine, has lost all its harddrive mounting hardware. Originally ya had some plastic things, screwed into the drives. With thick rubber hoses going out to hooks. So ya hung your harddrives suspended on these rubber hoses. But the rubber gets old, streches and eventually dies
So with the case in the video, there is only the 5.25" mounting brackets left.
I had some good times moving the case with drives mounted on the rubber things, cuse all the drives flopped around bouncing into eachother if ya lay the case down in the car or something.
Now I run a box with 4 harddrives in, screwed into the 5.25" bracket, so its no longer a problem.
I didn't actually know I could move the PSU to the top of the case but it does make sense...
One thing it didn't look like ya had problems with in the video is videocard length...
To hook the hdds to the case there is a bunch of plastic brackets screwed into the forward "tower" part
My 3080 was too long, and I had to unscrew two of those to fit it. But on the other hand I could also relieve the PCI-E slot, by hanging the GPU from one of those brackets with some string...
I also see that the previous seller had removed the screwbox, it's supposed to be mounted at the front to cover the last open slot underneath the fans.
My old Antec P182 had those ports for water cooling too. It was a very sturdy and heavy case.
A case that i feel have held up well, too, is the Phanteks Enthoo Primo, the first Phanteks case ever. It's a little newer, from 2013 but i think it's one of the first cases to have a PSU shroud/basement (quite similar to that of the much newer Phanteks 719) and it's very watercooling friendly. Bought it back in 2013 shortly after release and i still own it. Gonna do a casemod with it soon, possibly some custom watercooling later on. Only disadvantages is the size, it's fricking massive and around 18 KG, taking it apart for a proper cleaning took me a couple days. Been a fan of Phanteks ever since, i've owned the Primo, P400S, P400A and currently the Evolv X. The locking mechanism on the Primo front panel broke and they quickly mailed me new ones free of charge from their facilities in the Netherlands. Aside from a few odd design choices like the sliding coverplates on the P600S, P500A and Evolv series, i've been more than satisfied with their products. That was a long ass rant lol
Corsair 800D is a great idea Dawid. I have been using a Cooler Master ATCS840 for the last 10 years. Still an awesome case. Also the Fractal Design Define series.
I still have a my Antec P-180 I must have bought in 1843. It's still a good case! It's been sitting here empty for a while now, but that's because I've fallen pray to those new tempered glass panels cases now. But the P-180 was impressively designed for the time!
2010-2013 was the golden age of computer cases in my opinion, you can have all the contemporary tempered glass retail display cases, I don't want any of them. I defy you to locate one of these - Cyberpower Pc CFI Borrealight, the orange and black edition is absolutely stunning- and if you can I would be very interested to buy one.
you think this case would fit my 4080? 360 aio cooler and b650?
Can't say for sure, never had the case in front of me, but the specs/dimensions of the case can probably be found online.
Cooler master HAF XB. Came out around the same time and cooler master still makes them. They can also be an open test bench and have tons of air flow. Also a dust magnet. I have to clean mine regularly. Owned it since 2013. Have built 2 PCs in it so far.
This Bumblebee of a case is lookin so badass yet so modern for an od case.... Would love to see some metal side panels for controlling and directing air flow (also for a bit of sound insulation);
Definetelly a super cool design, aged like fine wine
the "Antec 300" was a game changer for air flow cases.
Indeed it was. With dust filters it could be viable today, the only drawback is the cable management capabilities.
Great video, some of the older case have so much character.
I love my Corsair 780T [White], still running an i7-5960X and GTX980 Sli from 2015. Temps generally run about 40 Celsius for CPU using H100i cooling and 55 Celsius for GPUs. Case gets cleaned out of any dust every month.
I still love my Antec 900 plenty of air flow, although I really wish they would release an updated version with modern insides as it is a bit difficult to work with.
I have to stop the video at the reading of the letter. Thank you Paul, that gave me the happy feels. Congrats on twins :) you have the pleasure of parenthood twice at once :)
The Corsair 750D released in 2013 and it stills holds up. Plus Corsair gives you the ability to upgrade it with a better i/o and an airflow front fascia that will make even you Dawid jump with excitement over its cooling ability.
Man I loved this case! Antec UK sent me a review sample in 2010 and I fell in love with it. I should track one down for a retro build!