Awards: Best & Worst PC Cases of 2020
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Date: 2020-11-27
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Vernacular
17:55 Wait, you're looking at SFF cases again?
19:13 Hopes deleted.
I've said it before: for SFF it makes the most sense to test space optimization. As in how much cooling and what components can you fit inside a given volume. I don't know how you'd determine an overall ranking for that, but it makes more sense than trying to use standardized parts for something that is deliberately non-standard in trying to cram components together in creative ways. This is all academic of course since GN isn't doing SFF reviews. Even if Steve or his staff find SFF interesting, they can't standardize testing for SFF so that content is just not happening.
I'm still looking forward to the O-11 mini testing, but I'm curious how they're handling that since it supports ATX+MATX+DTX+ITX while GN's testing is purely aimed at ATX.
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17:55 Wait, you're looking at SFF cases again?
19:13 Hopes deleted.
I've said it before: for SFF it makes the most sense to test space optimization. As in how much cooling and what components can you fit inside a given volume. I don't know how you'd determine an overall ranking for that, but it makes more sense than trying to use standardized parts for something that is deliberately non-standard in trying to cram components together in creative ways. This is all academic of course since GN isn't doing SFF reviews. Even if Steve or his staff find SFF interesting, they can't standardize testing for SFF so that content is just not happening.
I'm still looking forward to the O-11 mini testing, but I'm curious how they're handling that since it supports ATX+MATX+DTX+ITX while GN's testing is purely aimed at ATX.
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Steve
About the CM NR200P: because the way it's designed, having a TG sidepanel actually works and doesn't choke the parts. There's a bunch of chinese ITX cases with similar or same layout too, and they cool well. Look into the NCase M1 cooling because it also has a TG variant and it's still one of the best cooled SFF cases, the NR200 and those chinese cases basically copied that layout and cooling design as it proved to be a great compromise between size, cooling and component compatibility...it's one of the reasons the NR200 is one of the most popular SFF cases lately (along the price).
It might actually be worth dedicating some time to testing and comparing the performance with and without the TG panel...
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Steve
About the CM NR200P: because the way it's designed, having a TG sidepanel actually works and doesn't choke the parts. There's a bunch of chinese ITX cases with similar or same layout too, and they cool well. Look into the NCase M1 cooling because it also has a TG variant and it's still one of the best cooled SFF cases, the NR200 and those chinese cases basically copied that layout and cooling design as it proved to be a great compromise between size, cooling and component compatibility...it's one of the reasons the NR200 is one of the most popular SFF cases lately (along the price).
It might actually be worth dedicating some time to testing and comparing the performance with and without the TG panel...
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Joey
I have a question, is it quite uncommon for people to buy full size cases? Like a lot of reviews seem to be for mid-towers but is that because the big ones aren't good or just that nobody is buying them?
I like the look of the Meshify 2 but I'd only be buying the XL if anything and I see you mention that you haven't reviewed it in a formal capacity. I might just be a cynical bastard but I imagine that's because it's not good? I just want to know what the best large case is.
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I have a question, is it quite uncommon for people to buy full size cases? Like a lot of reviews seem to be for mid-towers but is that because the big ones aren't good or just that nobody is buying them?
I like the look of the Meshify 2 but I'd only be buying the XL if anything and I see you mention that you haven't reviewed it in a formal capacity. I might just be a cynical bastard but I imagine that's because it's not good? I just want to know what the best large case is.
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Kesulbi
Hopefully case manufacturers learn from this not to make mini itx cases almost as big as a mid tower case, if I wanted to fit a mini itx motherboard to a large tower, i'd just buy an o11 dynamic instead of a mini. There's several reasons why the ncase m1 and the coolermaster nr200 is so popular in the SFF community, they are small, easy to work with, they have good airflow, they fit what you really need in a pc and best of all, they don't waste your money with included rgb.
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Hopefully case manufacturers learn from this not to make mini itx cases almost as big as a mid tower case, if I wanted to fit a mini itx motherboard to a large tower, i'd just buy an o11 dynamic instead of a mini. There's several reasons why the ncase m1 and the coolermaster nr200 is so popular in the SFF community, they are small, easy to work with, they have good airflow, they fit what you really need in a pc and best of all, they don't waste your money with included rgb.
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Bout
Steve why no review on Maingears Vybe case. I payed like 80 for mine, and it's easily the best case I've built in to date. Plus its red so its 3 times faster. I budgeted and had to use the stock fans, stock gpu cooler and did not buy the water block they make that fits the Vybe and both noise and thermals are extremely impressive. Plus it has a full fan controller, a remote, and usb-c front panel jack all included.
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Steve why no review on Maingears Vybe case. I payed like 80 for mine, and it's easily the best case I've built in to date. Plus its red so its 3 times faster. I budgeted and had to use the stock fans, stock gpu cooler and did not buy the water block they make that fits the Vybe and both noise and thermals are extremely impressive. Plus it has a full fan controller, a remote, and usb-c front panel jack all included.
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N0nNaMe
I have a budget about 1700 dollars, is a good choice this config?
-asus rog strix b550 f
-ryzen 7 3700x stock cooler
-32gb 3200MHz corsair RGB
-rtx 3070 msi trio gaming x
-nzxt h510/h710
-ssd 1tb nvme 2 samsung evo plus
-hdd 4 tb seagate baracuda green 7200 rpm
-psu corsair tx 750w /cx 750w both with efficiency and protections
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I have a budget about 1700 dollars, is a good choice this config?
-asus rog strix b550 f
-ryzen 7 3700x stock cooler
-32gb 3200MHz corsair RGB
-rtx 3070 msi trio gaming x
-nzxt h510/h710
-ssd 1tb nvme 2 samsung evo plus
-hdd 4 tb seagate baracuda green 7200 rpm
-psu corsair tx 750w /cx 750w both with efficiency and protections
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Marcel
Lancool 2 Mesh performance owner and I bought it because of your review. Great case, easy to work with, good looks and good thermals. Keep a look at the stock fans, my had significant bearing noise and I had to swap them out for a bunch of arctic cooling fans. Thanks for the review, your time and afford is highly appreciated
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Lancool 2 Mesh performance owner and I bought it because of your review. Great case, easy to work with, good looks and good thermals. Keep a look at the stock fans, my had significant bearing noise and I had to swap them out for a bunch of arctic cooling fans. Thanks for the review, your time and afford is highly appreciated
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Mar
Not considering a front dust-filter essential is just so strange to me. The amount of dust I clean off there is significant and that's uncomparably easier than cleaning the entire interior of the case! When you only have to do that 50% as often it's already worth the dust-filter, imo.
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Not considering a front dust-filter essential is just so strange to me. The amount of dust I clean off there is significant and that's uncomparably easier than cleaning the entire interior of the case! When you only have to do that 50% as often it's already worth the dust-filter, imo.
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rolexrolex095
Steve i understand your hate towards the glass panel of the NR200P. I saw some reviews where the glass panel got even better results than the ventilated, because the airflow is more focused and directional. If you test the NR200P please test the glass panel!
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Steve i understand your hate towards the glass panel of the NR200P. I saw some reviews where the glass panel got even better results than the ventilated, because the airflow is more focused and directional. If you test the NR200P please test the glass panel!
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Mach
Please GN team, try to test out Cougar's budget airflow cases from their many Mx330 (340, 350?, 331) cases to mx410
Yes they are around 40 but they are pretty good offerings like the Mx330-G and mx441 coming with preinstalled fans.
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Please GN team, try to test out Cougar's budget airflow cases from their many Mx330 (340, 350?, 331) cases to mx410
Yes they are around 40 but they are pretty good offerings like the Mx330-G and mx441 coming with preinstalled fans.
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