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Make a case out of cardboard.

>>995751

unironically this

but do it out of plywood, plywood looks better and is stronger. plywood is made of cardboard anyway so it's a direct upgrade

>>995747 (OP)

Maybe you should try being less of a whiny bitch.

Who fucking cares? Put it on the floor out of the way

PCMR tier streamers are more common than fax-nostalgaic grumpy shitposters, so catering to them is a safe investment for case manufacturers

I find the Phanteks Enthoo Elite pretty nice to the eyes. But yes, workstations like Dell Precisions or Lenovo Thinkstations really have better looking cases.

>>995747 (OP)

Everything either looks like shit or like nothing, nowadays. I got a ThinkCentre for the case. Not a whole lot of space in there, but I just needed something compact that I could put a monitor on top of. That one looks pretty good.

>>995747 (OP)

because gaymers are the main demographic nowadays

I want my basic no frills tan box. No logos or art. Just an '80s tan box!

>>995909

No tan, only satin black!

Ricers took over the market.

Fractal design + be quiet! have an aura of "reddit" but they're the only subdued cases you can buy today, so go with those. The tempered glass/vertical GPU trend is because people want to show off their expensive components.

>>995916

I WANT TAN YOU RICER FUCK!

Computer cases through the ages have always wound up looking tacky, frequently on release and certainly a few years later. Some of them aged well but it's pretty rare and they are still ugly, monolithic, loud, and unless you're going for retro-nerd chic or gamer RGB gayness there is basically nothing out there.

I want a computer desk, a desk with the monitors inset into an nice wooden desk at a natural angle, a side cabinet that's shielded and accessed like a cupboard to handle the actual computer motherboard and storage and so on neatly tucked out of the way around the side. If you've ever seen one of George Lucas's original Laserdisc Editdroids, something like that. It should look like it belongs in a Bond villian's office. If I upgrade my computer, monitor, storage, and peripherals the desk / computer cabinet need not change a bit. Heck, one could even put a small SBC in there for home automation tasks and as a light shitposting machine and only power up the cabinet computer for compute-intensive tasks.

I've never heard of anybody with a desk like this, and it's weird. We're at the point where computer components and their connections are more or less standardized. People do a lot of work at desks and integrating desks and computers just seems natural to me.

>>996041

>I've never heard of anybody with a desk like this, and it's weird.

Probably because woodworking geeks tend not to be computer geeks.

>>996041

LIAN LI produces glass desk computers, and there's been a few DIY projects. Funnily enough, the DIY things tend to be universally better than whatever the company comes up with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvwzjt2x18E

It'd be nice to just slide a HDD into the top of your desk and plug your monitor in (or maybe even one of those visors)

>>995909

>>995916

>>995958

>>996100

Beige master race, reporting in.

>>995752

>plywood is made of cardboard

That's a lie

>>996413

It's made out of wood chips and sawdust that have been glued together in layers. You can tell just by looking at the stuff.

>>996464

Cardboard is paper, though. inb4 both are made of wood so they're the same.

>>996521

In the US

Rooftop

frame -> OSB -> tar paper -> shingles

Walls

drywall -> frame + insulation -> OSB -> Tyvek (water proof) -> siding (or brick)

OSB is also used for subflooring

OSB is more widely used in home construction than plywood or particle board. If particle board gets wet, it bubbles which is why it's shit although some people still use it for sub floor.

>>996521

>Turns out that they make plywood where the actual "plies" are made of composite board.

It's a new level of shitty -- everything you didn't like about plywood and chipboard combined.

>>995747 (OP)

I think the top right one looks nice. Clean and inconspicuous.

>>996494

Man, that brings back memories. The 6500 was my first computer. Damn thing was super heavy! Although, looking back now, I wish I had bought a PC instead and installed Linux on it so I'd have a head start learning it.

>>996556

And I thought it was bad that I've seen a gym with most of the wooden sections of it made out of those. Stained and everything. I guess someone really likes the unfinished building look.

>>995747 (OP)

cases are good but its hard to find good motherboards because almost everything is gamer crap now.

>>995752

>plywood is made of cardboard

Holy shit delete this before it's too late

>>996590

>cases are good but its hard to find good motherboards because almost everything is gamer crap now.

>buying new motherboards that have INTEL ME or AMD PSP botnets.

>>996628

>This problem is EVERYWHERE in consumer goods. I think of it as a "disco ball" aesthetic. When I was a pre-teen, I thought this look was cool. When I grew up, I realized that the device should not draw attention to itself; it should do it's damn job with as few bells and whistles and lights as possible.

same thing with music players. when I was pre-teen I thought Winamp looks cool, especially with skins. When I grown up and developed esthetics I found foobar2000 to be superior, it uses native OS controls and looks and 90% of the screen is your song list

this is also why classic windows looks (win 1, win2, win3, win95, win98, win2000) are superior to and destroy linux (KDE, gnome). there is xfce and lxde but windows beats them too. linux has no answer to windows superiority.

>>996632

KDE and Gnome do suck, yeah. XFCE and LXDE are super lightweight so they get a free pass. But there are other environments: Cinnamon, Mate, Pantheon, Window Maker, Enlightenment, Budgie, Deepin, and others.

And I think Cinnamon looks very nice. Way better than anything Microsoft ever did.

>>995747 (OP)

Because you're a whiny bitch

>>995762

This. I don't stare at my case, I stare at my monitor.

>>995747 (OP)

The clear side panels are ostensibly for LED lighting.

But really they're to let WiFi signals more easily reach the secret surveillance chip inside your CPU.

>>996569

probably because it one of the cheapest materials

>>995747 (OP)

fractal design still makes decent cases that doesnt look like ass

>>995773

not gonna lie i like the boat

>>996747

>case literally glows in the dark

...

>>996632

>reddit spacing

>licking MS's butthole without any shame

What are Tk, Motif, Xaw3D? There's even GNUstep for the hiptsers.

Consumer advice sticky is there for a reason

>>995813

>when they want to upgrade their PC they'll sell the old one or keep it around intact buying a new case.

I've never understood this. Most of the time I've seen people buy a new case they could have just re-used the old one. Electronics will go bad or need replacement, but cases are just shells. Any electronic components part of the case (like fans) can be replaced individually if they fail.