cool, i saw a offer for a cougar Archon 1, will need to see if it's not rusted to hell and back.
Cougar is in the sweet spot of functionality and price, and i pray every day that the Youtuber vultures never make them mainstream, because that will break Cougar's business model of being cheap and good when they inevitably jack up the price due to Youtubers hyping up their cases. Yeah that case you showed looks like a great server case, easily could put a blu ray drive in there and make it a media server or something with all the drive space.
Companies would also prefer acrylic, it's lighter and more durable. The issue is the stuff scratches very easily.
I have the acrylic panel MX330 and its served me well, if I knew they had the plastic side panel would've sprung for that though.
I have one very similar case from 2011, I couldn't ask for more. IT HAS BLUE LIGHT THAT SHINES BLUE. Fuck fishtanks and RGB and shit.
More Wccfslop that cannot be trusted.
Fishtanks are even worse for a maintenance angle. Not only do you have more unecessary space to cleanup, most likely that the back portion of the case has less space for decent cable management. Airflow is also inconsistent because the overly big space means more idle air across the case unless the case itself has 6+ fans, which is worse for noise + dust collecting.
My main rig is stuffed into one of these bad boys:
The side panel will scratch if you look at it, but i like that in this case the acrylic allows the panel to have a fan on it.
Yep. I keep my case on the floor where it belongs and will take the scratch resistance of tempered glass any day over acrylic.
How much is $100 worth to you? Because for roughly that much more you can get a 9060 XT 16GB and that's a way better deal.
Update: I decided to tempt fate and bought the Sapphire Pulse 9070 and sent in my 6900XT. Newegg just approved the trade in and sent a refund for $330, Performance with the 9070 has been perfectly satisfactory, it sips power and stays quieter compared to the 6900XT. Plus I can play around with LLMs and ROCM now. I only paid $500 for the 6900XT so this has overall seemed like a good deal.
On Newegg, cheapest b580 is $239 right now, 9060 XT is $379, so that's $140. I wouldn't go that cheap on a GPU, but it's roughly on a par with a 4060 and should be fine for gaming for a long time. You can get an Arrow Lake CPU under $200 right now, too.
I’m not broke, but I am a tight ass. I’ll look for a motherboard that has dual PCIe slots so when I inevitably want to upgrade I can see about a dual GPU setup. That aftermarket upscaling thing Mr Gamers Nexus talked about that works with dual GPUs seems really cool, and I wanna try running some local AI models, which would work well with that also I think.
I use a arc b580, do you think its worth upgrading to a 9060xt? Its only a $100 bucks in price difference.