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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Uh. You can.
In fact, the vast majority of desktop computer cases in the world are plain black boxes (or grey, or beige, but black seems most popular among the major manufacturers like Dell and HP these days). That’s because the majority of PC’s in the world are actually boring business boxes squatting on untold numbers of office desks. Just, no one posts pictures of those online because no one gives a shit about the 4,897 identical low-spec computers some megacorporation bought and had delivered on a pallet.
The PC’s you’re seeing are gaming rigs, and gamers festoon their stuff with silly LED’s because it’s cool, or at least they think it’s cool, or possibly just because it’s a meme by now. Or, in some cases, the piece of enthusiast gear you want comes with RGB LED’s all over it anyway, whether you like it or not.
You can absolutely build a gaming PC without the LED stuff, including buying a plain non-windowed case for it. I have a machine like that sitting on my desk right now, in fact.
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
If I could have gotten the boring cases that HP, Dell, and the others make, I would have. But other than system integrators, you can’t really find stand alone plane cases.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I mean, like… Yes you can?
www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007583 600545969 6000065…
l_b_i@yiffit.net 11 months ago
The first 4 results there have mesh side panels…
skulblaka@kbin.social 11 months ago
And the next 20 below that do not.
If you aren't willing to look past the first four results to find what you want, internet shopping may not be for you.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And the next like 457 don’t. Your mouse has a scroll wheel on it, right?
ThunderingJerboa@kbin.social 11 months ago
Focus 2
meshify 2
Pop Air
Enthoo Pro 2
Evolv Shift 2 Air
Eclipse p400
Like these aren't the "boring cases" you are referring to but they are black boxes with at least decent airflow since those boring HP,Dell, and other big system integrator use are pretty horrid for cpus gamers actually use. That was just from a cursory look of 2 case manufacturers .