Logaan’s Site

I have had a few computers in the last couple of years, and each time I have learnt something about the design or the brand.

In particular I want to focus on cases, they seem to be a undervalued component for a PC. Pick the wrong one and you can suffer from subtle air flow problems or rattles.

Heres my 2 pennies worth, its my opinion on good case design.

• Motherboard trays are useless
  If you want a decent motherboard tray, find one that slides out the back. The ones that lift out really are a pain in the ass
• Don’t mount hard drives side on
  In my current case I have a huge problem with vibration. This is caused by the sata cables touching the side of case and causing vibration (even with the right angled cables)
• Front doors are just hassle
  My last two machines had front doors, these became difficult to deal with since machine is under a desk and around a corner. One problem I had to be careful is not to scratch DVDs on the top of the case door.
• Rails, pah, who needs em?
  Someone who will be replacing lots of hard drives all the time, I won’t, don’t need em.

I was expecting a few more :P Of course my logic could easily be flawed, and I just picked the wrong cases. For a simple entusiast I can’t imagine needed funky features.