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Will there be another retro phase, with the vanguard using beige cases that scream, "this color expects to capture a nicotine patina"?
by saltcured 7mo ago
Will there be another retro phase, with the vanguard using beige cases that scream, "this color expects to capture a nicotine patina"?
- wincy 7mo agoThere’s the Silverstone FLP02 [0], for a mere $250 you can get a case that looks like it was built in 1996, complete with a turbo button that spins all your fans to max. [0] https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chassis/flp02/ https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/computer-chas...
- rjh29 7mo agoYes, RGB is so common now that it's not popular, and retro stuff is coming back in. I think I saw even some landscape PC cases (laid flat) with fake HDD drive slots and a turbo button.
- hakfoo 7mo agoYou can still get a handful of non-RGB cases. They're usually sold as the "Silent" version (i. e. Fractal Pop series, Gamemax Titan Silent series) since the non-glass side panels often have sound-deadening material glued in. 15 bucks of rattlecans will make any case beige. :) I'm sort of waiting for a motherboard manufacturer to weigh in though. Even the "pro" ranges tend to be black PCBs with a lot of complex silkscreening. The boards that don't have any of that tend to be OEM-tier boards with skimpy features. Surely someone can make an X870E-VINTAGE board with a green or yellow-brown substrate, no nonsense silkscreening, and finned brass heatsinkage that looks like the sort of thing you saw permanently glued to your 486DX2/66 CPU? I want the aesthetic, but that can still be implemented in the context of no-compromises modern hardware.