Acrylic does scratch easily tempered glass looks classier and now you can often find a tg case in the same cost range as an acrylic window case.
Acrylic vs tempered glass pc case reddit.
The side panel of a case that now sports a glass or acrylic window has generally been a blank metal plate for a long period of time.
We went from appreciating fan mounts on side panels and full black interiors to clean acrylic windows to loving tempered glass going too far with temper glass and going back to the basics with mesh airflow.
My current case in win 303 is my first tempered glass case and i m probably going to go tempered glass in the future.
It looks cool as hell.
Tempered glass is a lot more resistant to scratches the moment you wipe the dust off the acrylic panel it s done for scratches everywhere.
Doesn t that hold in the heat.
Why are computer case makers using tempered glass for covers now.
The answer is straightforward.
Tempered glass is more expensive and heavy.
Why the hell would you want a pc case that s made of tempered glass.
Needless to say the case industry has evolved a lot in the past decade.
When building a new gaming rig one has to pay attention to every detail every component needs to be compatible with the other components and the whole thing needs to provide a satisfying performance.
The element case from ibuypower is a modified version of an existing.
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I ve had too many where cases with easily scratched plastic for side panel windows or that were impossible to remove all the dust from.
The pc case market saw a huge boom when tempered glass side panels were quickly introduced in some of the cases in the market.