Tempered Glass Computer cases... sexy or sh*t?

[ratdude747]

Went looking at Canada Computers today... just looking, of course (anybody that knows me knows I never pay brick-and-mortar pricing on things).

It seems that a new trend in cases is tempered glass with no external drives at all. I saw a few this way, but the inwin 805 stood out to me the most:

https://www.in-win.com/en/gaming-chassis/805

At $200ish CAD, I'm not in the market... but I will admit that's a sexy case.

Even better, even though it's not advertized as EATX, from seeing it in person it looks like such would fit... . They say the max size GPU supported is 320mm, EATX is 330mm (so it would be a tight squeeze). It's certainly no full tower supermicro case, but with a few extra holes drilled and tapped one could make a very pretty workstation.

What sucks is that the glass is heavy and fragile... not a LAN party case, obviously.

What do you all think? Slick or shit?

[goontron]

Re: Tempered Glass Computer cases... sexy or sh*t?

Shit. Then again, i like to sleeper my PCs. Old beige cases with modern high end internals.

[stj]

Re: Tempered Glass Computer cases... sexy or sh*t?

not a good idea if you like radio or have a HAM nearby!!

[goontron]

Re: Tempered Glass Computer cases... sexy or sh*t?

^ That too. PCs really don't like 6m or 40m. I know about 6m from experience. It killed the BMC on perfectly good Lenovo T520 battery. 40m is just general knowledge.

[Topcat]

Re: Tempered Glass Computer cases... sexy or sh*t?

Not bad looking....but besides the above, can you imagine the filth that would show?!

[dmill89]

Re: Tempered Glass Computer cases... sexy or sh*t?

Not bad looking....but besides the above, can you imagine the filth that would show?!

^This, they look good when new but are a giant pain to keep clean and will show every smudge and spec of dust. Of course there are the potential EMI issues stj mentioned, and since it is tempered glass it can be very fragile if you hit/bump it "wrong" (on an edge).