I think I only have one PC case that isn't beige
The one that isn't does have some lights behind the fan, but that's about it. The keyboards are all beige though.
The one that isn't does have some lights behind the fan, but that's about it. The keyboards are all beige though.
To each their own, IDIC and all that. My POV is that, hey, it's the 21st century and I didn't get any flying cars, moonbases or everyday space travel. No world peace or limitless fusion energy.
But hey, at least my tech can look like it belongs in that imagined future.
But hey, at least my tech can look like it belongs in that imagined future.
Mine was more if it ain't broken 
Most of the older cases I'm using have been kept because they fit what's needed. My black case though has more room (Primarily for the graphics card).
While I'm sure I can find non beige cases that would suit my style, when I've been messing around with the "build your pc" on various sites (Mostly out of curiosity), most of the cases they offer don't have slots for internal optical drives and that's one thing I do want.
(Laptops seem to be even more difficult with regards internal opticals nowadays)
Most of the older cases I'm using have been kept because they fit what's needed. My black case though has more room (Primarily for the graphics card).
While I'm sure I can find non beige cases that would suit my style, when I've been messing around with the "build your pc" on various sites (Mostly out of curiosity), most of the cases they offer don't have slots for internal optical drives and that's one thing I do want.
(Laptops seem to be even more difficult with regards internal opticals nowadays)
@Santaman Beige cases belong in cubicles...
HA! these old beige beasts will outlive all those blinky, rainbow farting, fragile glass pane, depressed black weakly built "modern" casings!
*switches avatar to a InWin A500 casing*
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And yet remain the same bland, banal, blase, boring, bromidic benchmarks of corporate engineering they've been since the first IBM PC shipped.HA! these old beige beasts will outlive all those blinky, rainbow farting, fragile glass pane, depressed black weakly built "modern" casings!
*switches avatar to a InWin A500 casing*
I don't think we have the beige at work anymore either. Mostly, we have laptops but the odd DT we have is black.
I think a couple of the laptops we have aren't black, but they're spares at this time.
I think a couple of the laptops we have aren't black, but they're spares at this time.
I still have beige machines around, one in particular I like a lot, the casing is from a beige 1998 Compaq EP which used to house a Pentium II 400Mhz and now is the home of a Am1 Athlon 5350 which is a quad core AMD running at 2.05Ghz, thankfully I found a PSU that fit, a BeQuiet! 300 watt PSU which powersocket just fit the slot in the back where the original PSU had its socket.
Also two Medion MT5/MT6 minitowers, these are pretty much just micro ATX compatible and are silver coloured not beige, one has a Ryzen 2200G system inside, the other one a Pentium Gold 6400, they used to have a Pentium 4 2.66Ghz inside, the Compaq actually has two 92x92x25mm fans, one intake and one exhaust and the Athlon is a passively cooled 25watt CPU so dam cool, the MT6 with the Ryzen has a 92x92x25mm fan as intake for which I created a mount, and it has a 80x80x25mm exhaust fan, the Pentium Gold 6400 only has the exhaust fan, the front on it has the powerbutton etc in a different place so there's no intake fan I can put there but mweh, the Pentium 6400 has about the same wattage as the Northwood P4 that was living in there before.
Besides that, yes I own an original IBM XT which is not beige btw.
Also two Medion MT5/MT6 minitowers, these are pretty much just micro ATX compatible and are silver coloured not beige, one has a Ryzen 2200G system inside, the other one a Pentium Gold 6400, they used to have a Pentium 4 2.66Ghz inside, the Compaq actually has two 92x92x25mm fans, one intake and one exhaust and the Athlon is a passively cooled 25watt CPU so dam cool, the MT6 with the Ryzen has a 92x92x25mm fan as intake for which I created a mount, and it has a 80x80x25mm exhaust fan, the Pentium Gold 6400 only has the exhaust fan, the front on it has the powerbutton etc in a different place so there's no intake fan I can put there but mweh, the Pentium 6400 has about the same wattage as the Northwood P4 that was living in there before.
Besides that, yes I own an original IBM XT which is not beige btw.
God, I hate the Windowed Side Show, Las Vegas style blinky lights that are taking over PC builds.
Whatever happened to cool & quiet sleeper PC's with nice solid metal panels.
That's all I ask.
I'm a Classic Lian Li PC Case fan.
Function > Form any day of the week.
Whatever happened to cool & quiet sleeper PC's with nice solid metal panels.
That's all I ask.
I'm a Classic Lian Li PC Case fan.
Function > Form any day of the week.
Get the with the program man, your PC has to look like the Las Vegas strip /s
Hey Lian Li made some funky cases too I love the snail case, loved it so much I bought one used it for a bit, discovered it was a horror for cleaning, and bought an even bigger one, the Thermaltake Level 10 GT in white.
I go with a tried & true rectangular Full Tower.
Nothing like giving your PC components a Chasis equivalent of a RunAbout =D
Plenty of room to stretch =D
I know...... In the end I discarded the thermaltake too. But that had one advantage it had 5 removable drive trays on the side so you could have 5 hard drives going at once and a modular rack inside that I never bothered with.
I'm using a cube case, the one I originally started with, Cooler Master HAF XB but only once a fortnight. My regular PC is an Intel NUC with 32gig of memory and 2 internal drives.
full tower as in a big fucker you can fit a million drives in ?
Last time I used a full tower case would have been the early 2000s and that was with an ATX board and about 8 drives (praise by to SCSI) in a case that had 9 x 5.25" bays.
Then were downsized a bit a moved to a rack mount and have largely used that approach ever since though when I built my last PC it used a Bit Fenix prodigy M-ITX case which had good cooling and an accessible number of drive bays.
I still have a HUGE Chieftec Big Chief full tower, the machine is a Pentium III 1000Mhz with I think 512 or 768 MB RAM, there are 5x 5.25" drivebays and a few 3.5" ones, this thing is from the Windows 98 era.. so before the Dragon series came out, the thing has a 1.2mm thick metal frame and a HUGE U shaped outer casing oh and it is beige..
As for REALLY big, the original Cooler Master Stacker casing.. 11 5.25" bays, they had conversion kits to turn them into HDD cages which are fitted with a 120mm fan, they turn 3 5'25" bays into a 4 bay HDD cage, my brother has two of these beasts..
https://www.hexus.net/tech/reviews/chassis/890-cooler-master-stacker-stc-t01/
As for REALLY big, the original Cooler Master Stacker casing.. 11 5.25" bays, they had conversion kits to turn them into HDD cages which are fitted with a 120mm fan, they turn 3 5'25" bays into a 4 bay HDD cage, my brother has two of these beasts..
https://www.hexus.net/tech/reviews/chassis/890-cooler-master-stacker-stc-t01/
I own a variety of Lian Li PC Cases =D
Smallest Case:
1x Lian Li PC-Q26
1x Lian Li PC-343B
1x Lian Li PC-6077A
2x Lian Li PC-A70B
1x Lian Li PC-7077A
Largest Case:
Oh you don't even know the half of it:
I want to bring back 5¼" & 3½" Drive Bays so that we all have access to using modern SATA/SAS/U.2/U.3 BackPlanesoh yeah - them's the real deal full towers
After using a Drive BackPlane, you never go back to the old way of dealing with mass storage.
And yes, U.3 is coming to be the one Hot Swap, PnP standard to rule them all, and have backwards compatibilities with SAS/SATA/NVMe dives.
And I still love my optical drives. I'm sticking with Optical Storage as a Final Form of Backup Storage medium.
Not being vulnerable to the EM spectrum is a nice attribute of Optical Storage Discs
=D
I've got a machine that's living inside a Lian Li PC-P50 Armorsuit, nice casing, Phenom II 965 with 8GB RAM a 320GB and 1 TB HDD, a ATI/AMD Radeon HD 5870 gfx card and the ususal stuff.. and it is almost an unused machine.. got the casing for free from a friend, he didn't want to have a desktop machine anymore and uses mainly laptops, was quite happy to get that casing since it was quite expensive.. 
And yes, I have quite a collection of old hardware..
And yes, I have quite a collection of old hardware..
