Kind of another "not sure which bought thread to land this in" but nothing is getting any newer. Anything with external drive bays is seeming fairly retro now. (Reminder that a later rev 5170 AT would have been the age Ivybridge is now when Vogons kicked off. )

Nothing particularly special here, just boxes for bits. Have full ATX tower from ThermalTake, it's got the bottom PSU to handily save any dropped screws for you, two 120 holes in top, one in side, one in back, two in base, and one behind front panel. The ones on top have extra margin so might take 150 but don't have the mounting holes fully done, so minor mod if wanted. Back one takes 80,90, 120. Ample drive bays. 4 and 7 and one 3.5 can even be external, or two if you wanna lose the FP sockets. Oddly the barcode/PN on the bottom comes up as a LianLi that's all window and rainbow puke, the V100. But I can see the back 3 sides are quite similar, so maybe PN is for that assembly. TT also has a similarish one at microcenter with different front panel as V100, weird. Build quality is thin and cheap, which I don't mind because my back is often gippy and last thing I need is a 40lb case with 20lb more stuff in it. Age seems to be anything between 2007 and 2017 maybe.

Other one is simple ex Dull, seems to be standard mATX good amount of bays for it's size 2 and 1+3 but I think the bottom mount 3.5s get in the way of a longer than 8" GPU. Sleeper build? Yeah, nah, yeah, nah, nah, yeah... not good enough ventilation for too much grunt methinks. Oddly one of the boards I was thinking of, might end up duplicating spec of original optiplex model heh.

Anyway, saw these at a thrift last night... realised I keep prowling classified for cases and never see anything under $30 and got both of these for less when I went back today. Also grabbed a small bag of fans, one 80 and a few clean looking 60s for R&R of old SS7 sinks. That wasn't there last night so maybe they've had a bunch of PC stuff that's bleeding into stock over next few days, so I will have to try back there in passing a few times.

Thinking the TT might get a Haswell build at the moment, or disputing whether to go with my FX-8350 build in it.

Edit: I cheated and "lensed" it, seems to be a ThermalTake V3 Black Edition hailing from early 2010 initial release. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/thermaltake-v3-black/ and holeeeee sheeeet, someone on eBay wants $350 (CDN) for one.