Ugh I sold a case a decade ago that was clear acrylic like this for like $20 and I wish I didn’t. Would be so funny to have my build in it now
blackest-Knight
That probably just gets scratched to hell within in a week.
Acrylic is such a poor material.
refuge9
Ugh. No. Please. Never again. Those hard drive mount spots meant you had to nearly dismantle the whole system to get hard drives in and out.
I had one. Hated it. Gave it to a friend and had to keep supporting it for years. Finally, I told him I’d upgrade his system free but the case had to go. He was bummed, I took a sledgehammer to the old case in joy.
Broad_Rabbit1764
The dust was horrible in these, but I was a nice flex to show your Zalman CPU cooler and cold cathode lights all over. Bonus if you had UV reactive coolant in a custom water cooling loop B)
Edit: Back when mobo chipset (northbridge) was a big deal too. Nvidia, Intel, VIA, etc. All depended on your budget and needs.
VegasVator
I cant stop looking at the 3 ram sticks. ThREe RAm sTICKs!
iamAkwos
Nice Lian Li O11 Vision you got there /s
thesituation531
With the processors we have nowadays, I wouldn’t trust it to not melt.
Questitron_3000
Yumm, mustard yellow.
Designer_Boner
The worst cases to actually ground everything effectively.
True-Key-6715
My NAS was in one. Kept the cold cathodes. It had 9×5.25” bays which was perfect for fitting 3 of those 5×3.5” hot swap drive bays in. Ended up downsizing it and now it’s in a beige mid size ATX tower
stonktraders
This is terrible to look at even in 2002.
joe102938
Bro that build looks like it has like 24 kb of ram! Holy crap!
apachelives
Clear plastic? You mean acrylic.
Also 3 sticks so probably not dual channel, I’m sure that’s Kingmax RAM which made the odd colored BGA ram when everyone else was using TSOP chips, I’m sure that is a Soltek Nforce2 motherboard, Zalman CNPS3100 series cooler and the drive with the clear top has to be a WD Raptor.
<3
Jackpkmn
I remember seeing not just a clear case but a hard drive with a completely clear top cover. Not a little window like shown here but a full clear top case. I wish I could have had both they were so cool. I would still want such a hard drive today I love watching them.
KianaHirosada
Willy wonka’s elevator be like ..
Zefirka174
Needs more cold cathodes, UV reactive cable sleeves and a levicom PSU
Venom-snake777
Had one in the early 2000’s and it got gross because I used to smoke inside because I was also gross.
Had a uv light in it and white fans that would reflect it, seems so crap now but I remember building it and thinking it was amazing.
Doscida
It reminds me of those clear gear backpacks from the early 00’s
ZinGaming1
Late 90’s to early 2000 case. I would love to own one just because of how wild they got.
Ripsky_was_taken
Damn. That is a weird looking radiator.
Chrunchyhobo
That’s lovely that is.
Nice Raptor X, those are a bastard to find these days.
I need to get my New Old Stock Beantech Acrylic case out and build something in it.
UV_Blue
I still have one, it was thrown together for my younger brother with spare parts at a LAN party
ollie87
Yeah all the rage for a while, when I was doing my GCSEs at school I designed and built a clear fan controller for a 5.25 inch bay as my final project. Think it’s in my parent’s loft still.
Gaurav220
Imagine the pain of the people who cannot do proper cable management, all the mess is visible now 😭
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I’d build in one. Kinda wanna now.
They were as hot as they were ugly.
That’s an interesting CPU radiator.
Ugh I sold a case a decade ago that was clear acrylic like this for like $20 and I wish I didn’t. Would be so funny to have my build in it now
That probably just gets scratched to hell within in a week.
Acrylic is such a poor material.
Ugh. No. Please. Never again. Those hard drive mount spots meant you had to nearly dismantle the whole system to get hard drives in and out.
I had one. Hated it. Gave it to a friend and had to keep supporting it for years. Finally, I told him I’d upgrade his system free but the case had to go. He was bummed, I took a sledgehammer to the old case in joy.
The dust was horrible in these, but I was a nice flex to show your Zalman CPU cooler and cold cathode lights all over. Bonus if you had UV reactive coolant in a custom water cooling loop B)
Edit: Back when mobo chipset (northbridge) was a big deal too. Nvidia, Intel, VIA, etc. All depended on your budget and needs.
I cant stop looking at the 3 ram sticks. ThREe RAm sTICKs!
Nice Lian Li O11 Vision you got there /s
With the processors we have nowadays, I wouldn’t trust it to not melt.
Yumm, mustard yellow.
The worst cases to actually ground everything effectively.
My NAS was in one. Kept the cold cathodes. It had 9×5.25” bays which was perfect for fitting 3 of those 5×3.5” hot swap drive bays in. Ended up downsizing it and now it’s in a beige mid size ATX tower
This is terrible to look at even in 2002.
Bro that build looks like it has like 24 kb of ram! Holy crap!
Clear plastic? You mean acrylic.
Also 3 sticks so probably not dual channel, I’m sure that’s Kingmax RAM which made the odd colored BGA ram when everyone else was using TSOP chips, I’m sure that is a Soltek Nforce2 motherboard, Zalman CNPS3100 series cooler and the drive with the clear top has to be a WD Raptor.
<3
I remember seeing not just a clear case but a hard drive with a completely clear top cover. Not a little window like shown here but a full clear top case. I wish I could have had both they were so cool. I would still want such a hard drive today I love watching them.
Willy wonka’s elevator be like ..
Needs more cold cathodes, UV reactive cable sleeves and a levicom PSU
Had one in the early 2000’s and it got gross because I used to smoke inside because I was also gross.
Had a uv light in it and white fans that would reflect it, seems so crap now but I remember building it and thinking it was amazing.
It reminds me of those clear gear backpacks from the early 00’s
Late 90’s to early 2000 case. I would love to own one just because of how wild they got.
Damn. That is a weird looking radiator.
That’s lovely that is.
Nice Raptor X, those are a bastard to find these days.
I need to get my New Old Stock Beantech Acrylic case out and build something in it.
I still have one, it was thrown together for my younger brother with spare parts at a LAN party
Yeah all the rage for a while, when I was doing my GCSEs at school I designed and built a clear fan controller for a 5.25 inch bay as my final project. Think it’s in my parent’s loft still.
Imagine the pain of the people who cannot do proper cable management, all the mess is visible now 😭