Why do modern computer cases look like such shit?

AND DEM PRETTY LIGHTS.

Ricers

So when is the year of the horizontal case coming?
It'll even make your hardware last longer because it won't spend it's life bending.

Lurk for 2 years before posting.

I think there can still be some hidden gems amidst the sea of overdesigned neon garbage.

Last time I upgraded I realized that given my build, the local temperatures and the desk's position that my new PC was gonna heat up like a motherfucker, so I just bought the cheapest gaymurr case with decent cooling available in a store nearby. It was a Corsair Carbide Spec-03.

I was afraid the thing would overwhelm me with its gaymur faggotry aura, but upon close, personal inspection this one is actually really nice: the case itself is spacious and legit solid instead of flimsy, provides good airflow, the only overdesigned part is the front and even then it doesn't really look bad, it's modular, and comes with two fans and plastic dust filters. The LEDs can be easily disabled by software, but they aren't obnoxious at all.

I don't game much anymore, still plays Pillars of Eternity ad Stellaris so I'm happy.

Now that's cute.

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Is the second one clipping through the floor?

"Back in my day the cases were steel with a white plastic leeching toxins in the air while it slowly colored itself to become a tint of yellow.'

K

Nothing wrong with a cool slick minimalistic modern black case.

oldfag hat on.......
PC's since very early times had a CPU temperature sensor, and the PC would automatically shut off if the CPU got too hot. They have all had that since the very first PC that was. But the CPU fan, graphics fan (if you had one?) and case fans all ran full-blast, all the time.

Back maybe 15-20 years ago, motherboards started adding the ability to vary the CPU fan voltages (and thus, the fan speeds) using PWM (pulse width modulation). You couldn't make the fans run faster than normal, but you could make them run slower than normal if you wanted them quieter.

You couldn't control the power supply fan since it was integrated with the power supply, but eventually you could control the CPU, graphics card and case fans this way....

With this feature you didn't need to add a resistor or a fan control panel to make your fans run slower and quieter than normal. There was a few programs around that could automatically monitor the CPU temperature and control the fan speeds this way--keeping the fans low during normal use, but automatically turning up the fan speeds if you started doing a demanding task such as playing a game.

Almico SpeedFan was one of the more common programs and it is still around, but [-back then-] on some OS's it would crash after a day or so, and then it would default to running the fans at top speed. So I always had to re-start it. It might work better now.

If you used a resistor on the fan or a fan controller panel (that had a knob to control the speed of each fan) they never crashed.

Some fans now have a switch on them for 2-3 different speeds; Ive got some Antec fans around like that. Thats better than nothing but it's not ideal. Sometimes a fan just happens to resonate at a particular speed, and if you turn it up or down just a bit, it runs a lot quieter. So the knobs are nice.