First post, by appiah4
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- l33t++
Let me start out with a short story about a whole evening wasted with this yellowed vintage ATX case:
I spent a good deal of last night emptying, cleaning and repairing this ARC case in order to make my P2 build as authentic as possible. After installing everything inside and booting it I slipped a floppy into the drive only to find out that the floppy drive eject tab on the case faceplate is broken (and the floppy is hidden behind the faceplate so no eject for me.) At this point I threw my hands in the air and went to bed. Today I'm feeling particularly down about the time and effort I wasted, I've just about done had enough of it with vintage cases. I have some that were actually meant to stand the test of time such as the Elan Vital T10 my MMX build is housed in but finding such cases in good condition is hard and finding new old stock of them where I live is impossible.
TLDR; I've decided to forego case authenticity for practicality at least until I can source decent new old stock vintage ATX cases. I will be buying a couple of these for $20 each for my P2 builds and onwards. Yes it's not beige or retro in any shape or form but I wont have to clean dead roaches and cigarette smoke from inside them and I wont cut risk dying from a thousand cuts every time I assemble a new build:
How do you feel about this issue?
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