QOTW: What size is your PC chassis?

[ik9000]

How many ATX PC builds have you seen? Huge chassis, acres of wasted space and a single GPU.

The vast majority stay that way - many choose that size because of FOMO, and still do nothing with the wasted space.

I don't dispute that, but it's not the case for me. Every PCIe slot occupied on day 1 of build. Having to add extra sata ports already, etc.

[flearider]

http://www.ldcooling.com/shop/atx-hptx/173-ld-pc-v8-atx-hptx-red.html
thats mine .. must be a good 5 yr old now ..
before that a lian li it was 11 when it died ..
so i buy a good case and use it till it fails ..
so this one will be buried with me .. great case loads of room

[ik9000]

500 euros? Really!? Wow

[DevDrake]

Currently I have mid-tower, but i plan to change it for something bigger as i have no room to add the LC i wanted to

[Sulfatron]

Managed to source a 900D a few months ago... Always wanted this case, full tower and imo way better looking than the 1000D

[Chaudry]

USFF (shameful)

[ik9000]

Managed to source a 900D a few months ago... Always wanted this case, full tower and imo way better looking than the 1000D

Nice! I'd looked at those but couldn't find one anywhere. Managed to pick up a Bitfenix Shinobi XL 2nd hand. Not too shabby for the money tbh

[fail_quail]

mATX

Wanted something smaller than my old full-ATX PC but ruled out ITX because i wanted at least some PCIe expansion slots left. (turned out to be a good decision, as i'm now using the additional slots)

[AndyM2012]

Midi tower. It has to be that height because it doubles as a monitor stand on the floor.

[meuvoy]

Mid tower as always, I really find full towers very obnoxious. Right now in my modern mid-tower (without those old HDD and Optical drive cages), I have 5 drives, a BIG GPU and only 3 cooling fans but I could fit another two if I wanted, that's way more than what most people need. I just really eat a lot of space with games, music and professional work. Don't really feel to need for more physical space. In fact if I could I'd like to go smaller. Maybe when I get my hands on a BIG m.2 SSD I can move on to ITX.
Liquid cooling is just a gimmick, as it's has more parts to fail and doesn't offer any performance benefits unless you go custom and invest a month's worth of you salary in parts, so I'm not into it.

[Spank]

Massive, it's Thermaltake's The Tower 900 (white) with dual loop water cooling

[Percy1983]

Massive, it's Thermaltake's The Tower 900 (white) with dual loop water cooling

Didn't even know this existed so looked it up, the price isn't bad but it really is setup for custom loops which can't be cheap. Would love to have one but just can't justify it.

[markzero]

My last build was with a large mini-ITX chassis, the Thermaltake Core V1. I got it specifically because it's my first mini-ITX build, and I wanted to make sure it was big enough to be easy to work with, but also small enough to fit inside one section of an Ikea Kallax storage cube (think 13 inch by 13 inch, and deep enough). It's also big enough I was able to put a full sized power supply in it, instead of paying extra for a small one. Most cases that are mini-ITX-only are smaller, though, and I might go that route next time. I'll spring for a power supply with modular cables, regardless. I swear I have said this for a couple builds now, but cable management issues are much more serious in small boxes.

[Korrorra]

I was looking around at some of the Lian Li cases. Pretty expensive though.

[Korrorra]

I have a full tower Cooler Master Storm Trooper (original). Collects dust like crazy. I'm still looking for a good mid tower.
https://www.newegg.com/black-cooler-...82E16811119245

[scaryjim]

15" laptop. It'd have to be a very specific use-case for me to go back to a desktop as a daily driver now. I simply don't do anything that even a modest laptop can't handle. I might consider something a bit smaller next time I upgrade, but that shouldn't be for a few years, and tbh 15" is a really good balance between daily usability and lugging it around as necessary. If I *need* something smaller I already have a 9" 2-in-1, so...

I do own a small form factor Lenovo desktop, but that's dedicated to my audio work and doesn't get used very much. My much loved (and photographed on here) Antec Aria and its current components are being donated to a friend once we can all travel freely. And that will be the end of my desktop association for now. I even have a laptop as my primary computer in my day job.