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Do any of you happen to have the 50% off Battlerite Royale coupon you're not using and would kindly donate it to my ginger son? 

 
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The Fractal Design Define R6 is pretty cool too.   You get the best of both worlds with the minimalist look, the brushed metal finish, and yet it still hides an optical drive where the front panel opens up with a hinge that can be placed on either side. 

I really do like the designs on those Phanteks cases too, weretable.   The Phanteks Evolv X one that you have picked out looks very nice.  I'm not sure what are the main differences among all those different Phanteks models tho.

 
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Nothing371 said:
terrible analogy

It's not a day that ends in -y if I don't don't hear something from the "I don't spend money on physical media therefore it's dead" crowd though.
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Perfect analogy. You can find plenty of complaints about the removal of floppy drives and floppy drive bays mirroring your complaints about the removal of optical bays. On a personal note, I kept a floppy drive a good two builds after I ever actually needed one. Just like I have an optical drive in both of my systems and neither has been used this calendar year. (I have plenty of optical discs around, but there just hasn't been a need to touch them.) At some point something I've just always assumed as a required feature when picking out a new PC case became superfluous.

 
I just got a payment charged email from NewEgg and checking my order status shows the Evolv X preparing for shipment.  I'm a bit confused but that works for me.  

Thanks for the suggestions on other cases, it actually made me feel better about spending this much on a case since I couldn't find a cheaper one that had everything that I wanted.  I'll post pictures whenever I get it put together, just don't expect anything crazy looking as I'm not going on an RGB fan buying spree or anything and the water cooling will come much later.

 
I actually miss having an optical drive in my case as well although I can live without it.  I have an external that I got a good deal on but it is something else that you have to either have laying around or dig it out every time you want to use it so there are downsides.  

 
I regrettably removed optical drives from my most recent builds (2014 & 2016) and haven't looked back. I do keep a BD drive and hotswap bay in my server (Air 540) though since that is my media hub.

 
When I switched builds, I opened my old case's optical drive and found a disc I put in there at least two years prior (it was a game I found on disc and never used after installing).

You're always going to have some late adopters or people with special use cases but the reality is that few people are still using optical computer media and there's an external solution for those who are so cases are getting away from a pointless hole in the front.

 
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Perfect analogy. You can find plenty of complaints about the removal of floppy drives and floppy drive bays mirroring your complaints about the removal of optical bays. On a personal note, I kept a floppy drive a good two builds after I ever actually needed one. Just like I have an optical drive in both of my systems and neither has been used this calendar year. (I have plenty of optical discs around, but there just hasn't been a need to touch them.) At some point something I've just always assumed as a required feature when picking out a new PC case became superfluous.
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lol floppy drives. Terrible analogy. Floppy drives were succeeded by CD-ROM disc drives. Everything was then published on CDs. It was a direct evolution in quality. Every computer had a CD-ROM drive.

The day that movies, music, and games come on USB flash drives I might agree with you. But they don't, and lots of people still buy disc media believe it or not.

You also don't get full HD or UHD video quality from streaming or torrenting things, so it's not really an apt comparison (going full digital). People simply settle for less these days.

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I actually miss having an optical drive in my case as well although I can live without it. I have an external that I got a good deal on but it is something else that you have to either have laying around or dig it out every time you want to use it so there are downsides.
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I can live without it too. I might buy one of these external LG slim BD burners for $59.99. That's why it's not a huge problem. But for aesthetics and clutter, I'd rather have the drive built right into the case. Isn't that the whole point of having a custom case?

 
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Nothing371 said:
The day that movies, music, and games come on USB flash drives I might agree with you. But they don't, and lots of people still buy disc media believe it or not.
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Games haven't seriously come on discs in years. Unless you're buying "1,500 Vegas Solitaire Games" from the Office Depot rack, you're going to be downloading whatever supposedly came on a DVD.

It's true that a number of people are fine with non-UHD content, etc if it means they can just stream it. That's not people being forced to stream because they don't have drives, that's the market reacting to people being okay with streaming by realizing that optical drives are often unnecessary and no longer accommodating them in their cases (or laptops, etc)

 
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Some of those newer cases are mighty pretty but my computer lives under my desk and, even if I put it up top, the only ones to look at it are me, my wife, our kids and the cat. None of them are likely to be super impressed by the glowing glass box. So I rank function over form and go with a decent looking but functional mesh front case.
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I bought a glowing glass box a few years back. I'm sure it looks real nice, but as soon as I built it I promptly shoved it into a slot built into my desk for a tower.

The black mesh on the front is wonderful.

 
weretable said:
I just got a payment charged email from NewEgg and checking my order status shows the Evolv X preparing for shipment. I'm a bit confused but that works for me.

Thanks for the suggestions on other cases, it actually made me feel better about spending this much on a case since I couldn't find a cheaper one that had everything that I wanted. I'll post pictures whenever I get it put together, just don't expect anything crazy looking as I'm not going on an RGB fan buying spree or anything and the water cooling will come much later.
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Your Phanteks case is now available on Ebay btw for $179.99 after discount.

 
Nothing371 said:
lol floppy drives. Terrible analogy. Floppy drives were succeeded by CD-ROM disc drives. Everything was then published on CDs. It was a direct evolution in quality. Every computer had a CD-ROM drive.

The day that movies, music, and games come on USB flash drives I might agree with you. But they don't, and lots of people still buy disc media believe it or not.

You also don't get full HD or UHD video quality from streaming or torrenting things, so it's not really an apt comparison (going full digital). People simply settle for less these days.

I can live without it too. I might buy one of these external LG slim BD burners for $59.99. That's why it's not a huge problem. But for aesthetics and clutter, I'd rather have the drive built right into the case. Isn't that the whole point of having a custom case?
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Yet CDROMs didn't do everything floppies did, especially at first before burning took off. Even after, booting from optical media wasn't well supported, and plenty of older software (and hardware) still required use of a floppy. And still, at some point, I realized I just wasn't using my floppy drives any more.

On the issue of aesthetics and clutter, though, many would say that getting rid of a clunky optical drive bay helps with both.

 
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I'm still considering getting a case that has space for an optical drive though, and I'm sick of the nerds at microcenter telling me that optical drives are outdated and that I don't need one. TBH, that's the one thing that really bugs me with all of the new age cases; none of them have optical drive bays. As if going full unicorn slaughterhouse RGB is more practical or something. They all prioritize style and sleak, tight-fitting form factor; many of the expensive cases are completely smothered in tempered glass and can't breathe properly. That's why a lot of people still buy something like the one hostly posted.
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I have a BR-burner and 2 DVD-burners in my custom PC. Guess what? I very rarely use them. Maybe for installs for older games and to run the occasional game off the disc if I have to - but eh, that's really it.

Even now - eh, I'd rather keep the game on the bookshelf and just re-buy the old-ass game on Steam, GOG, Humble, UPlay, or somewhere (if it's there).

B/c of the price of blank BR's & BR drives, and w/ games regularly ballooning now way over the size of BR discs - eh, I namely use my hard drive docks for back-up purposes. Those work great. I have caught a good deal of HDD's on sale; namely extra external hard drives or internal-style 3.5'' hard-drives (which I can hot-swap in and out of the HDD dock) to back games up on and pull from for later reinstalls, since some of those damn 50-120GB games are ridiculously huge. I ain't putting that crap on multiple BR's.

And I don't think I've really seen that great of a deal on BDXL discs and BR-burners supporting BDXL either.

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Nothing371 said:
The day that movies, music, and games come on USB flash drives I might agree with you. But they don't, and lots of people still buy disc media believe it or not.

You also don't get full HD or UHD video quality from streaming or torrenting things, so it's not really an apt comparison (going full digital). People simply settle for less these days.

I can live without it too. I might buy one of these external LG slim BD burners for $59.99. That's why it's not a huge problem. But for aesthetics and clutter, I'd rather have the drive built right into the case. Isn't that the whole point of having a custom case?
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I think the LG Slim BD Burner at $60 might be worthwhile...provided you actually buy/rent BR movies a lot and/or do plan to back-up stuff on BR discs. I do like that that drive's portable and all.

But, as a BD-burner owner, I will tell you this: eh, I don't even really use it. I'm still good w/ backing-up games bigger than BR-discs sizes on HDD's & using HDD's for back-ups.

I get more usage out of my stand-alone LG BR-player connected to my HDTV.

 
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Nothing371 said:
o rly?
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For PC? Yes, really. Most these days come as either a Steam key in a clam shell, a disc with a client installer (to download the rest of the game) or a truncated version of the game that requires a download to update and complete it. Go ahead and find me some exception to the rule and I'll find you fifteen games that hold to it.

 
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PC Games Cases are nothing more than CD Keys and even if they have the disk it will not have the whole playable game on it. Which defeats the purpose of it. Drives are pretty much used for people who want to see media  or burn anything, some people will download those UHD Flicks etc 

 
I think I still have one or more of those towers of burnable cds that I bought from staples or office max on black friday probably 10+ years ago that will never see any use.  I think the last time I used my cd drive was to play my physical copy of Baldur's Gate II a few years ago.

I don't use the disk drive on my pc at all, but its been nice to have one on my laptop so the kids can watch movies at night when we go camping since I don't own a fancy high tech camper with one built in.

 
Nothing371 said:
lol floppy drives. Terrible analogy. Floppy drives were succeeded by CD-ROM disc drives. Everything was then published on CDs. It was a direct evolution in quality. Every computer had a CD-ROM drive.

The day that movies, music, and games come on USB flash drives I might agree with you. But they don't, and lots of people still buy disc media believe it or not.

You also don't get full HD or UHD video quality from streaming or torrenting things, so it's not really an apt comparison (going full digital). People simply settle for less these days.

I can live without it too. I might buy one of these external LG slim BD burners for $59.99. That's why it's not a huge problem. But for aesthetics and clutter, I'd rather have the drive built right into the case. Isn't that the whole point of having a custom case?
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So I'd love to agree with you on this, but, yeah, everybody else is kinda right: physical media are largely dead. Heck, I have a RaidMax case with a computer I just built at the end of last year and it has three optical drive bays, but I rarely use my DVD-R drive. Why? It's actually kind of a pain in the ass to get to in this case (this is partly because there's a bookcase about six inches in front of my case and partly because, to access the drive bays, you have to swing out a hinged door in the front of the case--in practice, that means I have to manhandle the computer and physically move it around a bit to get to the drive). This means that my case is definitely not for you, but the broader issue of internal optical drives being a little redundant really comes into play as well. I have a crapton of old PC games on CDs and DVDs and I still rip audio CDs and upload them to Google Play Music, but if you have an external drive to plug into a free USB port, well. . . ?

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I have a BR-burner and 2 DVD-burners in my custom PC. Guess what? I very rarely use them. Maybe for installs for older games and to run the occasional game off the disc if I have to - but eh, that's really it.

. . . more MysterD stuff. . .

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I think the LG Slim BD Burner at $60 might be worthwhile...provided you actually buy/rent BR movies a lot and/or do plan to back-up stuff on BR discs. I do like that that drive's portable and all.

But, as a BD-burner owner, I will tell you this: eh, I don't even really use it. I'm still good w/ backing-up games bigger than BR-discs sizes on HDD's & using HDD's for back-ups.

I get more usage out of my stand-alone LG BR-player connected to my HDTV.
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Also a valid point--a DVD player is probably just as useful as a BD burner on a PC. I mean, I used to back up stuff to DVD-ROMs--a lot. I still have a lot of these cluttering up my house for no real good reason, but now that hard drives are so cheap, this seems silly.

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For PC? Yes, really. Most these days come as either a Steam key in a clam shell, a disc with a client installer (to download the rest of the game) or a truncated version of the game that requires a download to update and complete it. Go ahead and find me some exception to the rule and I'll find you fifteen games that hold to it.
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This is also true. Sure, old games are on physical media obviously, but if you buy a new PC game, you'll be hard-pressed to find one with a disc inside the box.

On another note, so Thronebreaker information is out, there's a release date (10/23), and it doesn't look quite like anything we've seen from CDPR before. I thought this was intended to be an SP mode in GWENT that would be added in a patch, not a completely-separate and seemingly quite different kind of game. I'll admit that I haven't really screwed around with GWENT much since early in the beta, largely because it feels so different than the in-game (W3) version that I really enjoyed. I felt like it was heading in the direction of Hearthstone and every other card game out there. However, this actually looks like it has the potential to be a really good hybrid RPG-card game. I'm looking forward to learning more about it.

 
warreni said:
So I'd love to agree with you on this, but, yeah, everybody else is kinda right: physical media are largely dead. Heck, I have a RaidMax case with a computer I just built at the end of last year and it has three optical drive bays, but I rarely use my DVD-R drive. Why? It's actually kind of a pain in the ass to get to in this case (this is partly because there's a bookcase about six inches in front of my case and partly because, to access the drive bays, you have to swing out a hinged door in the front of the case--in practice, that means I have to manhandle the computer and physically move it around a bit to get to the drive).

This means that my case is definitely not for you, but the broader issue of internal optical drives being a little redundant really comes into play as well. I have a crapton of old PC games on CDs and DVDs and I still rip audio CDs and upload them to Google Play Music, but if you have an external drive to plug into a free USB port, well. . . ?

Also a valid point--a DVD player is probably just as useful as a BD burner on a PC. I mean, I used to back up stuff to DVD-ROMs--a lot. I still have a lot of these cluttering up my house for no real good reason, but now that hard drives are so cheap, this seems silly.
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Yeah, that's worth noting too - all that stuff you said that I underlined namely.

I also have an external LG DVD-burner, which I connect to my either of my laptops to install and boot older games when need be. I bought it when I bought my first real gaming laptop (Acer V Nitro w/ the 4gb 960M), a few years ago - and yeah, I needed/wanted that b/c I didn't like my laptop not having a DVD-burner. Yeah, I just connect that via USB 3.0.

Connecting anything via USB 3.0 is so useful, that it really ain't that big of a deal to me if I don't have an internal DVD burner or BR burner in a desktop PC, laptop, case or whatever. USB hubs are everywhere, so can always buy one for more ports...which I surely have done. Especially if you really need a DVD or BR drive that bad, you can always buy a portable DVD or BR drive and connect it via USB 3.0.

Hell, my $20 external DVD-burner drive gets more usage than my desktop PC's internal BR-burner (bought for $30 on sale a last Black Friday 2017).

 
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Oh, wow, optical drive talk?  Like I said, seriously like stepping back in time sometimes here. 

I stubbornly held on to the optical drive even in my current build.  I wanted it to listen to CDs and possibly burn CDs though I only buy CDs like once a year to support my favorite rapper who is indie and still does CDs.  I finally took it out when I got my new Toshiba HDD because I valued the drive space more and couldn't justify hogging a SATA slot with a CD burner.  Plus, I think it was broken by now.  I hadn't used it in years. I still have an old external I could do USB style if I ever need to burn CDs and one on my laptop.

I can't remember the last time I had to use the CD drive on any PC.

Coincidentally, I did buy a used Onkyo CD player/receiver on ebay with the last coupon because I still wanted a way to play my CDs.  It was a deal because one of the speakers was blown, but I wasn't using the speakers that came with it since I have my own bookshelfs.  That little thing is great and has built in bluetooth, radio, aux, etc. 

 
I still use my CD drive to rip CDs to my computer.  I also will burn CDs to use in my vehicle as I have not invested in an mp player based stereo for the car.

I do not mind if a game is actually on disc as it helps me conserve download time.

To each their own.

 
How would I rip my dvds and blurays without optical disc drives? And the better quality/faster drives are usually internal models. External are finally dropping in price but so are internal models. I might also want hot swap bays or card bays. There are plenty of pretty cases out there that are fine for a minimalist build done for looks. Those also waste space that could be used for internal hard drives or ssd's. Many of them are that way for water cooling setups. That's fine.

My big gripe is far too many case makers are all about the whiz bang pretty while ignoring putting out decent models with more utility. The worst are the pretty cases that have glass or metal/plastic fonts and pull air in from the sides. You're going to overclock your pretty case with all the rgb and you starve the intakes for air but damn, those fans look pretty under the glass. Bloody stupid.

I'm not usually a fan of Cooler Master (prefer Fractal Design) but their "master case" lines do at least give you options for pretty or utility.

/rant

 
I bet this sort of thing makes people in here want to vomit.

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love watching 4K UHD disc movies in HDR.

 
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For PC? Yes, really. Most these days come as either a Steam key in a clam shell, a disc with a client installer (to download the rest of the game) or a truncated version of the game that requires a download to update and complete it. Go ahead and find me some exception to the rule and I'll find you fifteen games that hold to it.
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You don't say. Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!

HEY MA!!! There a'int no discs in them thar cases.

 
warreni said:
So I'd love to agree with you on this, but, yeah, everybody else is kinda right: physical media are largely dead. Heck, I have a RaidMax case with a computer I just built at the end of last year and it has three optical drive bays, but I rarely use my DVD-R drive.
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ding. McDonalds + Taylor Swift logic at it again.

I guess we shouldn't have a single 5.25 bay in our custom cases "because that's how most people do things now". Physical media is dead just because I don't buy any of it.

We weren't even talking about a floppy DRIVE earlier. But a BAY which is just some empty area in the $200 custom case. But let's rescue the four to eight 3.25 drive bays inside new cases because those are totally needed to house several HDDs right? Talk about obsolete. People use several HDDs instead of SSDs and then tell me that I need to get with the times lol.

90% of people have no need for HDDs but that's still a thing apparently. Lord knows we need ready access to all those family vacation photos and videos from Myrtle Beach in 2003 and our road trip to Nantucket in 2010.

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Yeah who needs an optical drive you can have unicorn vomit. Utility is a totally thing of the past, man.

 
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Since someone mentioned floppy drives, I'll add in my 2c:

- If I could install a floppy drive in my desktop, I would. I can think of a couple of projects where a floppy would be more convenient (and more secure) than a flash drive or SD card.

- On the other hand, I can install an optical drive, but don't. I haven't had a reason to use an optical disk with any of my computers since 2014.

- Someone who has a bunch of hard drives instead of SSDs is going to be using them to store stuff that's accessed infrequently, and where low access latency or peak raw speed doesn't matter.

 
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Nothing371 said:
I bet this sort of thing makes people in here want to vomit.
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Nah, you're not that interesting of a snowflake. You're more like those Facebook postings showing a clock radio and saying "LIKE If You Know What This Is!!!!!!" and people get off to feeling special about it.

Nothing371 said:
ding. McDonalds + Taylor Swift logic at it again.
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The funny thing is that this is exactly correct. What sells more, tween pop songs about ex-boyfriends or country rock? Guess which songs Swift makes these days? Which sells more, Quarter Pounders or Seaweed Burgers? Guess which sandwich is a McD menu staple and which is a terrible memory of the 90s?

 
Maybe it's just me but I usually but the cheapest case with semi-decent cooling. I don't care what the thing looks like because -- as a true PC gamer -- I have no friends so no one will see it but myself.

 
Funny thing is that Newegg has 1,347 cases with between one and five 5.25" bays and only 222 cases with zero bays.  So I don't even know what the princess hissy fit is about when there's six times as many options with bays as without.

 
I miss my Bernoulli Box. Wish my case had a spot.

And funny, but the floppy disk was actually succeeded by...the floppy disk. While I'm not old enough to have used 8" disks, I used cartridges and cassette tape along with 5 1/4" disks on my TI. Once I got to 3 1/2" disks, I couldn't fathom how so much fit on something so small. I still remember my first HDD upgrade I did myself...SCSI 345MB Maxtor in an Amiga. 

 
HDD are definitely obsolete.  My best advice to people is to get only a much more expensive SSD and then fill it up to the brim with games and then constantly delete games when you need to download something new.  You can get a 1TB SSD for around $150 nowadays.  That's enough for your OS and all the games you'll ever need.  Unless you play anything modern because then it's only enough for like 7-8 games.  But constantly deleting and writing data is really good for SSDs so I recommend it anyway.  Once a week I just torrent shit to fill up my SSD and then delete it to keep it working.  

 
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If the PS4 version of Red Dead Redemption 2 is going to be 105 GB, I wonder what the PC version will be...
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Nil.

DVD/Blu Ray: Have one in my machine... Its not taking up space as I don't like small cases. My hands are too big. Anyhow, it's not used for much... Converting disc to digital before VUDU came out with the mobile D2D program and for transferring drivers to other PCs. Mainly the wife's laptop... Went it goes the OS doesn't recognize the network driver.
 
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Meh. I lost the option to use classic gmail today and the new version can eat my ass. foad, google.
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Does it matter? You use an email client to connect via IMAP. Why go with something new like webmail when there's an old option that works fine.

(Actually, I do still use an email client.)

 
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