Hello! I excitedly bought myself a new Graphics card for my setup. Now, this was the first time I’d ever built a computer, and the case I used was an old hand-me-down mid-tower. While purchasing the card I considered power draw and airflow, however I did not account for size. The drive bay can’t be removed if not by forceful means. I assume the best course of action is to just purchase or find a bigger case, but I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing any option so that’s why I’m asking here. What do I do? Do I try to hardmod my case into having enough space for the card?
By “depreciate quickly” we in fact mean “become worthless instantly.” I have various cases from the era where the power supply still went in the top rear corner rather than the bottom, and at this point they’re only of any interest as the foundation of a truly retro PC build for ironic purposes, or as a butt-to-ground adapter. You can’t even give the fuckers away because any computer nerds who would theoretically be interested in them already have a basement full of the damn things themselves.
So I would not lose too much sleep over hacking out a drive cage if it’s never going to be used. OP may even find that it’s riveted into place, in which case a few strategic drillings is all it’ll take to entice it to fall off.
Wait hold on PSUs on the top is considered outdated?
Maybe it’s where I live but I’ve never seen a computer with a PSU on the bottom
Where are you where they’re still at the top? They’ve been in the bottom in basically everything for at least 15 years.
I was going to ask the same thing but it’s also been 15 years since I’ve built a computer so I have no idea what’s current on that.
It’s the thing now.
I still rock my case from 2003, but you do get better airflow this way.