I am hoping to get an answer to this question from someone who opens up & repairs a variety of large desktop PC towers and mid-towers.
If you look back a few years over the offerings of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Gateway, Lenovo -- who would you say in general has the best-designed, best-ventilated, best-built large desktop cases? [and same question for mid-towers also]
The reason I am asking is . . . I am thinking of buying a large desktop PC (possibly a mid-tower, but not a SFF or USFF) that is no longer working (for as little $ as possible), and then fixing it up myself, substituting components appropriate for my needs/wants along the way.
It's not too hard to find Dell Studio XPS's, HP Pavilion Elite's, Lenovo ThinkCentre's; there are also comaprable possibilites from Acer, Asus, Gateway, etc.
Any particular choices -- focusing primarily on the case, and secondarily on the electronics -- that strike you as "above average" in this regard, or possibly even "well above average"?
[P.S. I'm aware that I could go out and look for a used aftermarket case (like say an Antec or a Rosewill) that's being sold as part of a non-funtioniong rig -- but my impression is that there's a lot more of the mainstream Dell & HP fixer-uppers out there, for relatively low $.]
If you look back a few years over the offerings of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Gateway, Lenovo -- who would you say in general has the best-designed, best-ventilated, best-built large desktop cases? [and same question for mid-towers also]
The reason I am asking is . . . I am thinking of buying a large desktop PC (possibly a mid-tower, but not a SFF or USFF) that is no longer working (for as little $ as possible), and then fixing it up myself, substituting components appropriate for my needs/wants along the way.
It's not too hard to find Dell Studio XPS's, HP Pavilion Elite's, Lenovo ThinkCentre's; there are also comaprable possibilites from Acer, Asus, Gateway, etc.
Any particular choices -- focusing primarily on the case, and secondarily on the electronics -- that strike you as "above average" in this regard, or possibly even "well above average"?
[P.S. I'm aware that I could go out and look for a used aftermarket case (like say an Antec or a Rosewill) that's being sold as part of a non-funtioniong rig -- but my impression is that there's a lot more of the mainstream Dell & HP fixer-uppers out there, for relatively low $.]
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