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Honestly, I would love to see how having a screw-free case would even work. I've somehow used cases where the screws got busted probably from my overuse of opening/closing them for general maintenance.
 
donavannj said:
Granted, I generally don't like working in those no-screw cases, either. Some of the ways you pull stuff out is just dumb or otherwise a pain.
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You're in for a treat! Consider getting something from, I dunno, their line, some day. I use the Carbide 100R myself. It's a bit small for an ATX case, but it does work very well once you accept that it's small.

I'm a bit guilty of over-tightening case fan screws, too, but at least I didn't damage anything other than some of the paint.
 
Twiggy said:
You're in for a treat! Consider getting something from, I dunno, their line, some day. I use the Carbide 100R myself. It's a bit small for an ATX case, but it does work very well once you accept that it's small.

I'm a bit guilty of over-tightening case fan screws, too, but at least I didn't damage anything other than some of the paint.
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Those are insanely expensive cases. I'll pass.

Plus, I already have most of my next PC on hand. I just need to finish it.
 
donavannj said:
Those are insanely expensive cases. I'll pass.

Plus, I already have most of my next PC on hand. I just need to finish it.
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The MSRP of the cases aren't necessarily what you're going to pay. Corsair's stuff are almost always on some kind of rebate or discount on most online stores.
 
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All I saw were ones that were north of $300 when I looked at the site on my phone.
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No wonder.

Do consider something from the Carbide series, then. There are also a lot of choices from different vendors with similar functionality, but the 100R should work really well. IIRC you should be able to get it for $50 on some online computer part stores.

(And while we are at it, do also check out their PSUs, fans, and coolers.)

For reference, the case in question. Should be enough for almost everyone not needing an EATX board or extremely big tower coolers/double-wide radiators.
 
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Twiggy said:
No wonder.

Do consider something from the Carbide series, then. There are also a lot of choices from different vendors with similar functionality, but the 100R should work really well. IIRC you should be able to get it for $50 on some online computer part stores.

(And while we are at it, do also check out their PSUs, fans, and coolers.)

For reference, the case in question. Should be enough for almost everyone not needing an EATX board or extremely big tower coolers/double-wide radiators.
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I'm actually not in the market for a case since I already have 90% of my next computer assembled (bought it off a friend who recently upgraded and was basically just going to put in a fresh PSU and video card and then wipe the OS install).
 
donavannj said:
I'm actually not in the market for a case since I already have 90% of my next computer assembled (bought it off a friend who recently upgraded and was basically just going to put in a fresh PSU and video card and then wipe the OS install).
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Aha! Now it makes perfect sense! Just keep them in mind when you need to build a completely new PC separately for whatever reason.

I want a convertible laptop...
 
donavannj said:
By then it might be a different manufacturer with good rebates and whatnot.
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Indeed! Usually, it's just better to buy whoever that happens to have a good product and is cheap to buy at the same time. (The Corsair 100R and 200R seems to be the ATX cases to get if you're in a budget, though.)
 
Twiggy said:
Indeed! Usually, it's just better to buy whoever that happens to have a good product and is cheap to buy at the same time. (The Corsair 100R and 200R seems to be the ATX cases to get if you're in a budget, though.)
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Cases aren't terribly hard to do, though. Even the cheapest ones can easily outlast the initial components you put into it. In fact, my current case is on the 4th set of components installed inside it, and it was just a $60 case 12 years ago.
 
donavannj said:
Cases aren't terribly hard to do, though. Even the cheapest ones can easily outlast the initial components you put into it. In fact, my current case is on the 4th set of components installed inside it, and it was just a $60 case 12 years ago.
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Indeed! Though having a case that is easy to poke around in and looks great helps, too.

Team Fail said:
So I got a neat pair of headphones. I love them, but I also hate them and I'm torn as to whether I want to return them. They have binaural recording functionality, and the bass is really good, but the speakers almost seem slightly muffled. I'm not sure what I want to do ;__;
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Tried futzing with the equalizer settings? (hint: instead of raising the weak part, reduce the strong part, since you're working digitally and raising things sometimes cause unexpected stuff.)

If that doesn't help no matter how you tweak it, or if you need to use it on something that doesn't do EQ, return it. What was the headphones?
 
Team Fail said:
The brand is Andrea Electronics. They're cheap, but they've been around for years according to their packaging and website.
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How much did you shell out for them?
 
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